dospassos said:
My pet Peeves (he he) about this game center around the dueling. I feel I'm just not getting the hang of it. Sometimes I seem to do best by rapidly tapping on just one side of the screen. Other times it works to rhythmically tap one side then the other. It all feels very random, though. Are there any dueling masters out there that can give me some lessons? I would really appreciate the help.
A few tips that I can give are:
1: if you're playing in free play, always play the game with dumbledore as your main character. If you enter a duel as him you get twice as many hearts (8) iirc.
2a: as well as deflecting by tapping the bottom of the screen, you can also cancel a shot fired at you by sending one of the same power back (see point 2b).
2b: if they charge a shot and it fires always deflect it back, unless you send a charged shot back, they won't cancel out.
3: if you're duelling a less arduous character (i.e. Malfoy and his friends most death eaters). It's often easiest to either: spam your shots (don't bother with charging), or, charge a shot up at the beginning and then if and when it hits spam yours shots, this will normally kill them without too much difficulty.
4: if however you're duelling a better character (i.e. voldemort, belatrix) I'd recommend duelling them by using the following technique: you want to stun them, and then spam shots at them while they're stunned and can't defend themselves. Do this over and over again and you should defeat them fairly quickly.
... The techniques I've said in 3 and 4 should work most if not all times providing you also deflect where nesscary if they attempt to hurt you. If you can't get a stun shot off because they're firing too quickly it's worth it if you just stop firing and deflect constantly, eventually they'll fire a charge shot that you'll deflect correctly and you'll end up stunning them.
Best of luck and I hope I've helped.
P.S. it's worth noting that it is impossible so far as I can tell to beat shape the first time you duel him as the story is set up so that he wins, you'll notice that he fires far quicker than anyone else in the game.
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