Parrying the Timekeeper

I've been doing speedruns attempts of the Aire of Hours because I noticed that apparently nobody has submitted one and I thought it'd be nice to be the first. This fight came from one of the better attempts that sadly ended in failure against Levi (I am still garbage at the Ifrit fights) but it was pretty cool getting this many parries, so here it is. Wished the actual speedrun clear had been this clean (spoiler alert: it absolutely wasn't.)
#ff16 #ff16gameplay

[@deansnipah1392]

Finally someone who is using Windup. Its one of my favorite abilities. As a lvl 110 with Original Sin, that baby gives me multiple 7000 - 10,000 damage points

[@rosseggleston5058]

Crazy impressive

[@kasavaman007]

Brooooo. Made it into a souls game. The thing is , parry is very very hard in this game as it has a very short hit box

[@apocalypse9199]

Dam you on fire

[@simonredforce]

And people said you couldn't do combos outside the training area. With every video you prove them wrong.

[@JZSPAID]

Literally! I do wish they someday make FF mode available your 1st playthrough (difficulty only) and Ultimaniac an actual difficulty in-game; action focused was pitifully easy..

[@Dirty_Nero_Main]

Super clean timing. I'm only half decent, and that's using Burning Blade.

[@eyrestahl]

Yeah, I used to get most parries using burning blade, but the fact that you have to charge it up on top of timing it made me practice doing it with regular attacks.
I still can't let go of the jump crutch.

[@Dirty_Nero_Main]

@@eyrestahl tech is tech. SSStylish play

[@ineedsomecialis]

@@eyrestahl I’ve embraced the parry. It’s not a jump “crutch.” You simply stay in the spot you originally intended to execute the parry whereas on the ground it moves Clive forward regardless.
On a related note you could do a challenge run where your only means of slowing and/or interrupting the enemy is through parries. No permafrost, rift slip, titan block or other counter abilities. Just the parry

[@dantegallardo1974]

Is there any way you can just fight this boss as is? I don't want to replay the entire stage just to reach this point

[@eyrestahl]

Nope, other than having a save file right before a fight there really isn't any way to fight specific bosses or anything. The closest you can get to that is doing stage replay and dying before you kill it, so you can choose restart from checkpoint and start over. And that's not an option on Ultimaniac, so it's hard to get practice on the higher difficult. But it's not that different from FF mode other than it doing more damage and having more HP.