The posture mechanic has been one of the staple features in Souls-like games. In Lords of the Fallen, you can perform Grievous strikes on your enemies to chip away a chunk of their health. Although, there is a catch when trying to do them. Unlike the normal HP bar, you have to stagger your enemy by filling up the circle around the target lock on. Additionally, if you don’t maintain pressure on your enemy it can go down fast. So here are some tricks to help you perform it easily.
How to Do Grievous Strike in Lords of the Fallen
You need to inflict posture damage to your enemies by attacking them and filling up the lock-on meter, to be able to use Grievous strikes. It will stagger your opponent for a few seconds. During this state when they are immobile you use your normal attack to deal more damage than usual.
- Attack your enemies to chip away their HP and Posture.
- Use moves like Kick or Charged heavy attacks to chip away their posture meter.
- Try using heavy weapons because while they may hit slowly, connecting the attack will do a lot of posture damage.
- Another way to get your enemy to stagger them is by parrying their attacks.
- You have successfully staggered them when you can see the targeting lock-on becomes red and the enemies are on their knees.
- Finally, do a normal attack and you will perform a grievous strike.
Why You Should Use Grievous Strike?
The biggest advantage of doing a Grievous strike is it lets you recover your withered health. As such it is a high-risk high-reward move. In case you don’t know what withered health is, it is the gray bar of your HP. Basically, if you get hit now, you lose the gray bar along with some part of the red portion of your HP getting chipped. But when you recover it the gray bar turns red showing your actual HP.
Aside from that, grievous strikes are good for dealing more damage. It doesn’t do any crazy amount of damage to your enemies but is still nice and depending on your weapon may be worth two to four strikes. However, it is easy to get carried away when trying to hit these strikes so be careful not to overdo it else the enemy might punish you.
That’s all on how to deal grievous strikes in Lords of the Fallen. Since you are here also check our guide on if you can kill Grim Reaper in Umbral, how to heal, and the best Catalysts.
