Just Guard Help

Hey everyone, I've been trying pretty hard lately to learn how to just guard some moves that have been giving me trouble, but I'm just not able to do it well and or consistently either in training mode or in a real match and was wondering if anyone has any tips on getting started with just guard. My in-ability to just guard is across pretty much every move and it might have to do with the fact that I am trying to time them like the parries in Street Fighter III.

All and any help is greatly appreciated

My problem with just guard was holding guard button longer than needed. You really have to concentrate on quick tapping the guard button instead of regular press. Seriously quick tap and release. Not sure if that helps but that's what was holding me back. Goodluck

JG was the reason I stopped playing this game, I mean seriously, it's way too hard.

And then my opponents would be JG'ing a 13 frame standing K, and then I would get launched for doing a standing K. Doesn't seem like fair punishment to me.

JG is for frame/execution junkies, or for people with inhuman dexterity. Not to mention it looks totally stupid and fake in a battle.

yeah what vincent said.

JGing two hit strings or BE attacks is easily attainable with practice. you are referring to somebody who is hammering away at the G button after making you guard a safe move or whiffing an attack with good recovery. there is no skill in this and its exploitable on your end by using throws or lows.

you complain about alot of things in this game though so its no surprise to hear you talk like this. arent you kurisukapsu?

Best JG practice: fight Hilde in training mode with her doing C2/C3 A (i believe, it's the one with the BA property on the second hit), Also there's Pyrrha 66B BE. Siegfried SCH K BE, Xiba 6A/6B with K follow-up.

Well, I have tried just about everything that people have suggested. I already know that you have to press G really really REALLY fast, the problem for me is that frame window BEFORE the move hits that you have to press the G.

after a full hour in training mode, I couldn't even JG Astaroth's A+B, not even once.

You guys can have that damn JG, and this game. Plus I don't feel like punishing safe moves is good for SC, not at all (especially with no meter cost). Oh and one other thing; unblockables should be UNBLOCKABLE damnit!! Not like they are very useful anyway, but still it's the principle.

Do the Hilde method. Trust me, it's incredibly useful! JG'ing a Break Attack to eliminate their advantage and leave them at disadvantage (like Pyrrha 66B BE, Ezio 66BB BE)

Fun fact:
Alpha Paroklos' only break attack: 44B+K BE
+ 2 on guard
Over -35 on Jg, lol.

Wait, so if you guard his 44B+K BE, he keeps a very small advantage. But if you JG, he's essentially full retard?

People think JG just takes away some blockstun and they are wrong. A JG allows you to treat a move as though it whiffed entirely, ergo break attacks can be semi safe or death on JG, depends entirely on the whiff window.

I didn't realize that the discrepancy in frames was that big. O.O

What's the easiest button to JG with? I struggle with the face buttons, just wondering if anyone JGs easily with any of the top buttons

What do you people think about "fuzzy" just guard or whatever it would be called? Tapping then holding G to get a just guard if the timing is right, otherwise a regular guard. Do you consider it exploiting the game? Do you use the technique, or do you use exclusively regular hold guard or just a tap? I can see that technique having its drawbacks with not learning just guard properly and only just guarding the first hit of any multi hit strings, but on the other hand I don't know if I will ever be able to rely on my ability to time the guard tap correctly without going for the safe option.