Where Winds Meet fights like a soulslike, not a button-masher. The core skill is reading the colour of an incoming attack and answering it correctly.
Read the glow
- No glow — a normal attack. Block, dodge or parry, your call.
- Red glint — your parry cue. A Perfect Parry (deflect just before impact) negates all damage and drains the enemy's Qi. The window lands late — parry when it feels almost too late.
- Yellow / gold — unblockable and unparryable. You must dodge.
Break, then execute
Deflections drain the enemy's Qi bar. Empty it and they're Exhausted — open to a big Execute. Pro tip: don't execute instantly. Delay it until about a second remains on the Exhaust window to squeeze in extra hits first.
Two weapons, one flow
You carry two weapons and swap mid-combat — and the swap itself is an attack (tap the swap to strike as you change). Weaving weapon swaps and animation-cancels is the key advanced skill. Your Qi bar doubles as stamina for blocking and dodging, while qinggong movement runs off a separate bar — so repositioning and flanking are effectively free.
In one line: red means parry (late), yellow means dodge, drain their Qi, then execute — and never stop moving.