Apollo Parry Testing

[AuthorJP]

I spent two hours and 40 minutes in customs with a friend seeing what Apollo can and can't parry.

Of EVERYTHING in the game, the only things we found to be unparryable:
- Return Fire
- Spirit Sap
- Djinn Mark
- Tornado (You *can* parry it, but you get stunned at the end)
- Riposte's strike (this will never come up in an actual game, but we did test it, and you cannot Riposte a Riposte)
- Wraith Teleport
- Venator Gutshot Wall Stun
- Graves' Jar of Dead (Deadheads are parryable)

We tested EVERY other item in the game, and ability. From our tests, we concluded that he can parry EVERYTHING else. Including Kelvin's Frozen Shelter, Drifter's Eternal Night, The projectile part of Yamato's Flying Strike, Sinclair's Audience Participation (Although they still gain your ultimate and you do NOT get told), Paradox's entire kit (this INCLUDES Paradoxical Swap, although this has buggy interactions), Paige and Infernus' fire trails, the EXPLOSION from Spirit Burn, the PLACEMENT of Graves' Buried Decree, the LANDING EXPLOSION of Bebop's Exploding Uppercut, Dynamo's Singularity, Lady Geist's Soul Exchange, Phantom Strike, and the startup of The Doorman's Hotel Guest, just to name a few.

I have reason to believe some of these are bugs. I can't *prove* anything is a bug (except Paradoxical Swap and maybe Audience Participation), but I can say for certain that him being able to parry literally EVERYTHING in the game causes some weird interactions.

Please reply to this thread with further testing if you've somehow managed to parry Spirit Sap, Djinn Mark, or Return Fire. Do note that you *can* parry Focus Lens, but Spirit Sap is either incredibly inconsistent or impossible based on our testing.

Potential Bug Parries:
- Chain Gang
- Paradoxical Swap

 

[AuthorJP]

To elaborate on Chain Gang and Paradoxical Swap:

Chain Gang
- When parrying the *startup* of Chain Gang, Apollo's Riposte Dash activates, but when Billy pulls chained enemies back, Apollo will be pulled back to Billy and take damage no matter where he is.
- When parrying the pull of Chain Gang itself, Apollo completely negates the pull effect.

Paradoxical Swap
- When parrying Paradoxical Swap, one of three things can happen, from my testing:
- Riposte's Dash activates, but Apollo and Paradox still swap places.
- Riposte's Dash activates but Paradoxical Swap's projectile passes straight through Apollo. It is still considered active, and as such, can hit an ally behind Apollo and cause said ally and Paradox to swap.
- Riposte's Dash activates, but Paradoxical Swap's projectile passes through Apollo and hits an ally. In some *extremely rare* cases, this causes Apollo and the ally hit by Paradoxical Swap to both be moved and swap places with Paradox.

There are probably more specific bug edge cases, especially with those two ultimates, but my friend and I are only two people and didn't have time to test every potential scenario.