Parry and Deflect: PS5 preview controls and current limits

What the official overview establishes

Capcom describes blade-on-blade combat as centered on parrying and deflecting. Its PS5 demo overview lists Parry and Deflect as separate techniques available to try.

Those developer descriptions do not define timing windows, resource costs or rewards. The separate hands-on report below supplies preview inputs.

Inputs reported from the PS5 event demo

PlayStation Blog's June 8 hands-on account reports these controls. It predates release and does not establish the final defaults, remapped controls or Xbox, Switch 2 and keyboard equivalents.

Check your layout, then practise one response

1. Open your current controller layout and match the action names.
2. Practise one defensive response against a familiar enemy before combining moves.
3. Use the current tutorial's feedback; these sources provide no measured timing window.

Before your next attempt

Match Parry and Deflect to your saved control layout before using the preview inputs above.

What this guide still cannot answer

Retail controls, timing windows, stamina effects, invulnerability, damage and any perfect-parry reward remain unverified here. Break Issen has a separately documented stamina trigger; do not treat it as proof of a Parry or Deflect reward.