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Animation Canceling Guide

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Last updated on: December 20, 2025 02:55 AM

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Perform animation canceling by pressing the parry button or dodging in any direction during combat in Where Winds Meet. Learn more about animation canceling and its purpose in this guide.

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How to Animation Cancel
Animation Canceling Explained
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How to Animation Cancel

Perform a Parry

Dodge in Any Direction

Perform a Parry

The best and fastest way to cancel attack animations is by pressing the parry button. After you press the parry button, you can immediately follow up with a different attack. This technique will speed up your combos and rotations.

How to Parry Attacks

Dodge in Any Direction

Although slower, you can also animation cancel certain attacks by pressing dodge to perform a backdash or by adding a directional input to dodge in a specific direction.

You can use the animation cancel to dodge an incoming attack or to cancel your combo if you need to run in the opposite direction.

Animation Canceling Explained

Used To Cancel Attacks and Perform Another Action

Animation canceling is a mechanic that allows you to interrupt an ongoing attack animation with a parry or dodge. This enables you to perform a different action.

This has plenty of uses, from using it as a defensive tool to quickly repositioning yourself during combat or making your combos shorter by omitting unnecessary animations, which will drastically increase your DPS.

Applicable to Most but Not All

Most basic attacks, charge attacks, and martial arts skills can be canceled using an animation cancel. However, some skills cannot be animation canceled, such as the Nameless Sword and Nameless Spear's Dual-Weapon skill.

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Animation Canceling Guide

How to Animation Cancel

Perform a Parry

Dodge in Any Direction

Animation Canceling Explained

Used To Cancel Attacks and Perform Another Action

Applicable to Most but Not All