it's less lighting reversal and more just full elemental damage always doing some amount damage. just how deflects does not remove all damage from fire attack.

i know you can deflect the attack however, might reduce the damage by some amount (never mesured it myself however). i assume eel liver also can reduce the damage (altough personally i have never bothered).

at worst a succsesfull reversal will give you plenty of time to heal.

I was trying to train by doing hitless genichiro, do i dodge or do lighting reversal?

Originally posted by PureVessel:

I was trying to train by doing hitless genichiro, do i dodge or do lighting reversal?

depends on what you are training for, and if you are doing hitless, if you concider deflected elemental damage as a hit (if you have mid air deflection).

for real (non hitless) fights you verry much want to do lightning reversal, so getting good at those would be the best

Originally posted by GHA!:

Originally posted by PureVessel:

I was trying to train by doing hitless genichiro, do i dodge or do lighting reversal?

depends on what you are training for, and if you are doing hitless, if you concider deflected elemental damage as a hit (if you have mid air deflection).

for real (non hitless) fights you verry much want to do lightning reversal, so getting good at those would be the best

Im training to be ready for the next parts of the game, lighting reversal was just a bonus. Since real fights want lighting reversal, ill use it. Though, if i wanted to do bosses hitless, does this count as a hit?

Originally posted by PureVessel:

Originally posted by GHA!:

depends on what you are training for, and if you are doing hitless, if you concider deflected elemental damage as a hit (if you have mid air deflection).

for real (non hitless) fights you verry much want to do lightning reversal, so getting good at those would be the best

Im training to be ready for the next parts of the game, lighting reversal was just a bonus. Since real fights want lighting reversal, ill use it. Though, if i wanted to do bosses hitless, does this count as a hit?

not sure what people would concider as a hit or not personally. my current challenge run i am doing has many rules, but hitless is not one of them.

Originally posted by GHA!:

Originally posted by PureVessel:

Im training to be ready for the next parts of the game, lighting reversal was just a bonus. Since real fights want lighting reversal, ill use it. Though, if i wanted to do bosses hitless, does this count as a hit?

not sure what people would concider as a hit or not personally. my current challenge run i am doing has many rules, but hitless is not one of them.

what are the rules? Also, which is harder, lighting reversal or dodging it?

my current challenge run have these rules:
pemadeath, no ressurect, all bosses, no charm, bell asap, no level up skills or anti air deathblow (can still use prayer beads and memories) , no prosthetics, no ninjutsu, no combat arts, the only combat items i can use are; healing, status healing, status resistance, stealth sugar. i can also use divine confetti but only vs ghosts.

basicly the only thing i have going for me is healing and hp/damage up

i also think doing lightning reversal is easier, altough i have never tried not doing it.

Originally posted by GHA!:

i also think doing lightning reversal is easier, altough i have never tried not doing it.

thanks.

which is easier depends on a few things
generally lightning reversal is easier if you're ready for it but you can also just be in a spot where you wouldn't get hit by lightning reversal anyways
most lightning attacks in the game are very position dependant and if you're too close or too far they'll just whiff and it'll go over you completely
lightning reversal is generally preferable though as the lightning reversal is pretty easy to pull off (after some practice) and is absolutely devastating to your opponents

Lighting reversal does a very low chip dmg. Now at very low hp, this can kill you.

If you reverse lighting with the"Mist Raven"you have easier timing and no chip dmg but it cost emblems.

with sakura dance(even without spirit emblems) and mist raven there is no damage