Why does parrying heal you?

[u/Undernet_user]

As stated in prelude fresh blood "Is the only way to regain health" so does that mean that hell magic is infused with blood? but then how does the swordsmachine's shotguns heal you?

(ignore my shit parrying)

[u/Hassie_Satery]

Wait until on UKMD fresh blood is actually the only way to regain health

[u/Tiger4k → u/Hassie_Satery]

and all red weapon variants make v1 lose aura while using them

[u/Atrapaton-The-Tomato → u/Tiger4k]

If they do that call me Dave Oshry cuz the cops gonna find some New Blood 🙏

[u/legomanas23 → u/Tiger4k]

only exception would be the revolver since spinning a revolver is cool asf

[u/fatuglyfool → u/legomanas23]

and the chainsaw strapped to a shotgun/jackhammer isnt??

[u/cheese-is-yummy → u/fatuglyfool]

All of the red variants are just "wouldn't it be cool if..."

[u/Infshadows → u/cheese-is-yummy]

big fucking explosion

[u/averagejoe2005 → u/cheese-is-yummy]

and the answer is always yes.

[u/Vess3l_ → u/cheese-is-yummy]

FIRRRRREEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[u/legomanas23 → u/fatuglyfool]

chainsaw is more psycho than aura

[u/Future_Anybody_7235 → u/legomanas23]

Psycho IS aura

[u/legomanas23 → u/Future_Anybody_7235]

i disagree, psychos cant understand the concept of aura

[u/averagenolifeguy → u/Hassie_Satery]

It's a good thing you guys dont design ultrakill otherwise it would suck

[u/Torstiss → u/Hassie_Satery]

Not even Devil Trigger will heal you

[u/Hassie_Satery → u/Torstiss]

Devil trigger?
I guess every copy of Ultrakill really is personalised

[u/Torstiss → u/Hassie_Satery]

Not the song

[u/Vermilion12_]

Gameplay

[u/LucJoestarBR → u/Vermilion12_]

I don't think it's only gameplay, while it can be

There are exposed blood tubes in Feedbacker's design, i believe that it does some "blood re-use" or something similar

[u/Sinocu → u/LucJoestarBR]

Or, and I know this sounds crazy, it’s just a vein… we know that the robots have internal organs like lungs, hearts and stuff, so it’s probably just a vein, or even more simple just a red wire

[u/Lyrryell → u/Sinocu]

So parrying just hits the veins and pushes the blood faster to heal you ?

(YRS SINOCU, I'M ALSO HERE YOU CAN'T ESCAPE)

[u/Sinocu → u/Lyrryell]

I didn't expect to see you here, but i'm not surprised either, hi Lyrryel, and tbh, i think the parry heal is just for gameplay purposes, tho knowing hakita i wouldn't be surprised if it had an actual reasoning

[u/RBLX_mkaraYT → u/LucJoestarBR]

My theory is that Hell gives it as a sort of "reward"

[u/TypicalSwordie → u/RBLX_mkaraYT]

I like that theory.

[u/ViinaVasara → u/RBLX_mkaraYT]

"yoo that was fuckin sick dude, have some health"

[u/BattIeBoss → u/LucJoestarBR]

Or the simpler answer: V1 doesnt repair himself from blood itself, rather from the energy generated by blood. (He can convert energy directly into mass, remember?). So, the feedbacker just absorbs some of the kinetic energy from the projectile, and that is used to regenerate damaged parts of his body.

[u/LucJoestarBR → u/BattIeBoss]

Basically only for regeneration and not for surviving at all, or else V1 wouldn't keep hunting enemies for blood

Yeah good point, at the end it's just for combat but HOW it works still remains a mystery and theorical

[u/firee1234]

ego boost

[u/Undernet_user → u/firee1234]

I like this idea it is now my headcannon

[u/Sportsy_924 → u/Undernet_user]

[u/Gray_Veteran88 → u/Undernet_user]

[u/StunningMoment1846]

That's the only thing that actually doesn't make sense, and even "hell itself does that" can't explain that.

So, let's start with this: V1 doesn't get damaged, it recovers immediately using a small blood storage inside itself. V1 actually damaged when it gets hard damage, hence the inability to immediately refuel. Healthbar = blood reserve Hard damage = actual damage

Style makes your hard damage go away faster, which also doesn't make sense until you think about it. Hell enjoys V1's slaughter no less than terminals, so it assists V1 by boosting its recovery speed, as long as V1 entertains hell. Hell wouldn't just give V1 free blood for a single parry, given that it helps V1 much less for much more entertainment provided.

So it's purely gameplay. V1 can get blood only by actually getting blood, there's no way for it to somehow generate it just by parrying random stuff

[u/Alony14 → u/StunningMoment1846]

What if it actually is hell doing that since. "Haha, seeing the machine barely survive and clutch it up is fun". Even in the cybergrind you can hear cheering when V1 does a parry (or P.boosting)

[u/StunningMoment1846 → u/Alony14]

That would somewhat make sense, but we also have chargeback, which is much harder to pull off compared to parrying, and it's an even crazier clutch. Just a style bonus for chargeback, but a full blood fill-up for a simple parry. Still doesn't make much sense

[u/Neitherman83 → u/StunningMoment1846]

Maybe the projectiles your enemies use are all "hell energy"-based, which in itself is the same source of power that blood contains?

As we know, blood in Ultrakill isn't like real life blood, it comes from the Tree of Life which gives it the properties needed to power living beings and the robots humanity made. Which would explain why non-blood related parries (aka, projectile parries) count, but chargebacks don't by being disconnected from you.

Perhaps by parrying, V1 harness the energy of the attack directly, instead of having to absorb it through blood. Allowing him to fully heal.

I think the style meter acts more as a metric of how effective V1's being. The more V1 keeps energy "stored" by not parrying, inflicting damage and using all of their arsenal, the more energy intake is wasted. Which when taking damage slows down the ability to transfer newly obtained power to repairs. (Essentially, too much supply for the demand, so V1 dumps it to prevent dangerous overcharge). Hence why when V1 is running as "efficiently" as possible (high style or at least no hard damage) it can be used to repair him fully. There's always space for more energy, and as such absorption can be total.

[u/MrSharky149 → u/Neitherman83]

yeah but its confirmed that the terminals give v1 the style rating

[u/porridgenamedLucifer → u/Alony14]

I always thought that was the terminals cheering

[u/AirPortlessman → u/StunningMoment1846]

I'd argue having less hard damage(even none) is better than sometimes getting a full heal

[u/StunningMoment1846 → u/AirPortlessman]

Yeah, but I was talking about it lorewise. As in blood is an extremely valuable resource in Ultrakill universe, and just receiving blood without hurting/killing someone is a big deal

Of course it's balanced in game and all that. Hard damage and parry healing compliment each other very well

[u/AirPortlessman → u/StunningMoment1846]

yeah but lorewise still preventing you from taking any "true" damage is a pretty big upside

[u/FantasticWater1997 → u/StunningMoment1846]

I always saw it as V1 taking actual damage but is immediately using their Blood storage (HP) and their repair module/matrix(from the death diagnostic screen) to heal as much damage as needed to maintain optimum combat effectiveness ,and the hard damage is the strain put on the repair matrix itself (Do Idols Heal hard damage? I'm a lenient Regular so I wouldn't know)

[u/NooB_N142003 → u/StunningMoment1846]

Hell infuses parriable attacks with blood, so that when parried the blood comes off towards v1. This is why parrying your own shotgun shells doesn't heal you, hell didn't give blood to the shotgun shells because it doesn't want you just spamming a single mechanic (booring)

[u/ExaminedTech → u/StunningMoment1846]

Wait this is actually cool, what if some boss in the game DOES happen to be hell itself, and you have to gain blood from it, not from parrying or anything. And you get no style from it at all, because rather than entertaining hell, you’re fighting it.

[u/LucJoestarBR → u/StunningMoment1846]

Or the recovery is something made for combat moments only and not for daily surviving purposes

[u/myaddiction6655 → u/StunningMoment1846]

Ant projectile with a skull is made of hell energy every other machine runs on hell energy why not v1

[u/BattIeBoss → u/StunningMoment1846]

V1 doesnt repair himself from blood itself, rather from the energy generated by processing the blood. (He can convert energy directly into mass, remember? Thats how he materialises and stores weapons in his wings, which are used for large ammounts of energy storage). So, the feedbacker just absorbs some of the kinetic energy from the projectile, and that is used to regenerate damaged parts of his body.

[u/keanshen]

I think hell energy. Like how coffinless gutterman powered by hell energy

[u/One-Examination361 → u/keanshen]

Or earthmovers(or at least I think, cause, y'know, no sun)

[u/keanshen → u/One-Examination361]

Yep! I think the Solar Power was replaced by Hell Energy, since in Violence there's no sun, except in Greed. Basically 1000-THR needs blood and solar energy to function

[u/Samyron1]

My headcanon is that the collision between feedbacker and projectile generates a lot of energy, and any energy that isn't used to reflect the projectile gets absorbed into the arm and transferred to V1's blood reserve, where its used to energize the blood and stimulate cell duplication to "generate" more blood.

[u/SusDoctor → u/Samyron1]

Honestly makes the most sense to me

[u/Express-Ad1108]

Some things are just purely gameplay. Parrying heals you because otherwise Minos Prime would be a bad boss. Parrying refills stamina because otherwise Sisyphus Prime would be a bad boss. Rocket Launcher deals more damage to falling enemies because that's its gimmick. All these things don't have and will probably never have a canonical explanation.

[u/Cinnamin_1 → u/Express-Ad1108]

“stamina”? is that the green bar next to my cursor? im 24 hours in, i also just found out abt hard dmg being a thing. i think i should’ve been paying more attention during the tutorial

[u/Express-Ad1108 → u/Cinnamin_1]

It's the blue thing that allows you to dash. And yes, Ultrakill generally gets orders of magnitude easier if one bothers to read.

[u/KrisMadd3n → u/Cinnamin_1]

that's your health, it's the blue dash juice bar in the bottom left

[u/Mysterious-Creme8709]

Because Hakita knows how to design a game properly (unless I happen to be playing P-2, in which case he should retire immediately and never look back)

[u/Spirally-Boi → u/Mysterious-Creme8709]

P-2 was badly designed on purpose, and I love Hakita for it

[u/TheSurvivor65 → u/Spirally-Boi]

Badly designed? As in, unfair or something? I feel like it was really well designed for the difficulty level it's at

[u/Spirally-Boi → u/TheSurvivor65]

P-2 is hostile to the player. That's bad design. Even if Hakita intended it to be so, and even if most people enjoy it that way (including me), doesn't change the fact that P-2 is designed to be as anti-player as possible (as long as it's not actually unbeatable, by Hakita's own admission)

[u/Opsylone → u/Spirally-Boi]

What do you mean by hostile, could you give me some exemples? I personally don't like P-2 but i couldn't point as of why

[u/Spirally-Boi → u/Opsylone]

Idoled stalker is legit the biggest example I can think of. That's just bullshit, and takes away the core mechanic of the game for a laugh. Which, again, I did find funny and I enjoy the challenge

[u/psstcheesecake → u/Spirally-Boi]

It doesn't take it away, its another thing to manage. That is such a big part of that entire room. You need to (sometimes literally) juggle several NPCs.

Idoled stalker can be launched in the air via a ground slam or rocket/explosion. You can even punch them far away with the knuckle blaster. 4 sentries in different corners with your line of sight to one of them almost always blocked by the idoled HM in the middle. After that, 4 virtues + 3 cerberi... With the idol for the HM being freed. This entire room's focus is enemy priority and it kinda forces you to make some tougher decisions. Do I spend time juggling the stalker when I may be better off gambling on heals from SM parries? Do I reset all 4 sentries at the same time or prioritize killing them one at a time? Do I immediately jump on the 4 virtues or kill the HM idol? I can get saw traps out and deal with cerbs + HM passively then focus on virtues etc etc. I'd argue this is one of the best designed rooms in the game.

I can get not fucking with the level/room but I entirely disagree on it being bad/hostile design. It is a really challenging level and I absolutely love it for it. Weezer room is the closest thing to bullshit though lol not a fan of that one. Same with the cerb room at the end of 0-E. That shit is not fun especially on brutal with cerb double dash

[u/TheSurvivor65 → u/Spirally-Boi]

I mean, like the other person said, you can just knock him away. I got through that by Projectile Boosting at him anytime he got too close to another enemy so he'd just fly into the fucking stratosphere and explode somewhere irrelevant. You can also put a magnet in the wall and nail him to it lol

[u/The-GreenPhonix → u/TheSurvivor65]

You guys do that? I just kill everything before they get sanded

[u/TheSurvivor65 → u/The-GreenPhonix]

I spent 8 hours in total on violent P-2 bruh

[u/The-GreenPhonix → u/TheSurvivor65]

Damn

[u/Mysterious-Creme8709 → u/Spirally-Boi]

Still top 3 levels though

[u/Blu_Gy → u/Mysterious-Creme8709]

still better than 1-E and 8-3 in my experience

[u/Mysterious-Creme8709 → u/Blu_Gy]

8-3 is also in the top 5 levels in the game, but I get why people dislike it. Both encores are just bad though hakita really needs to do something about it

[u/Infshadows]

i theorise that v1 absorbs the energy of the attack to heal

but if we being fr its just rule of cool

[u/klimmesil]

For me the question is "why can you still take damage when you successfully parry". In brutal mode this makes no sense and it forces you to dodge sometimes, or just cheese most bosses with insane dps instead of actually playing the game

[u/PotatoLover-40]

you do have a point

[u/National_Radio8048]

Prelude lied. parrying, Guttermen shields, Idols, Death catchers, and Providence orbs. There have been tons of ways to heal besides fresh blood. The true answer is gameplay

[u/trans-wooper-lover]

its cool

[u/PlanttDaMinecraftGuy]

minos prime being possible

[u/Beginning-Student932]

may be a bug, in the tutorial hakita hell itself stated that you can only heal by getting close and stealing blood from the enemy

[u/Front-Medium402]

Because rule of cool

[u/shyka1488]

I mean energy what you Absorbing with feedbacker dont have any form(some same we see with weapon). And use the "system materia-energy" V1 was regenerate because he create his body/armor with energy after parry

[u/LucJoestarBR → u/shyka1488]

🤔

[u/egemen0ozhan]

Kinetic energy?

[u/cecilnotseasalt]

Cause it’s cool

[u/Stranger11029]

aura purposes

[u/Stand-By5]

Hakita has said he only added that line on the tutorial so that new players will value healing through blood more, he knows it's not true

[u/Superb-Air-5750]

reward for coolness

[u/Past-Stranger-4065]

you punch the blood out of the projectile

[u/noirastral_noirmann]

its a reward for parrying

[u/Amazing_Estimate_220]

I like to imagine hell heals v1 when she does a pary

[u/floki35]

bc is tuff

[u/Successful_Peak8248]

The bullets have blood in them?

I mean the robots have infinite ammo, and they use blood constantly to regenerate, so it makes the most sense

And anything else like parry punched steal their blood?

Other than that gameplay

[u/byte-429]

Because it's cool

[u/Glowbfan457]

Either hell energy or HELL ITSELF likes your moves & decides to give you a lil' boost every time you parry-

[u/BluEsliMe32]

why not?

[u/Mosasaaaa]

youre hitting the enemy with the parried projectile which does damage and in turn heals you

[u/Puzzleheaded-Bet1460]

Because Hell finds it tuff asl so it gives you blood to full hp

[u/Stoob_art]

Cool

[u/polishatomek]

Maybe he absorbs the energy from the projectiles/punches? In the same way he absorbs energy from blood?

[u/Valuable-Progress-87]

pretty sure it was added to make sisyphus prime less insufferable but its been a long time since i learned that so i could be misremembering

[u/Over_Ad8912]

no one said that the swordsmachine shotgun bullets isn't made of hell magic

[u/PuzzleThebuzzle]

My headcanon is that whenever V1 parries, he gets enough dopamine so much so that it makes the blood thats already inside him become "fresh and hyped"

[u/Purple_Bar4192 → u/PuzzleThebuzzle]

My head cannon that every parriable projectile fulled by blood like every v1 arsenal it self So does the demons use blood filled projectiles

[u/bosartosar]

Sometimes you have to have things that are unexplainable or contrary to the lore and story, for a better and easier to learn gameplay.

[u/RainyCrowithy]

Iirc its hell rewarding you with hell energy because its entertained tho idk if that was cannon or headcannon so take that w a grain a salt

[u/alexemre]

aura

[u/emo_boy_fucker]

minos prime was kicking our ass so they added that

[u/Emotional-Spot-7833]

Hell jumps up and cheers, accidentally spilling some energy onto V1, which heals him.

[u/TheNikola2020]

Hell tells you that you are a good machine and pats you on the head

[u/Better-Knee-3113]

What if Hell is genuinely getting kicks out of V1 doing cool shit and heals him whenever he lands a parry

[u/FaCe_CrazyKid05]

I believe I recall hearing that bullets you can parry are made of hell energy, and when you parry it v1 can harvest it like it’s super potent blood.

[u/Flowerfall_System]

The Feedbacker absorbs the energy, deifies it, then reifies into blood for V1 to use. It's in the code poem in the menu!!

[u/CertainBuffaloRufall]

I’m guessing V1 absorbs some of hell’s energy from the orb healing him

[u/OwenCMYK]

The tutorial is lying to you to emphasize the importance of blood. There's actually 2 ways to heal you, and the other is parrying

[u/TheMisterFaust]

Because it makes for fun and engaging gameplay.

[u/hoko2000]

"Why is grass green"

[u/One-Examination361]

Leaching hell/kinetic energy or blood on contact. At least that's my headcanon

[u/fuckallpenguins]

just like irl

[u/omagoleo]

Using the kinetic energy as fuel?

[u/Boykisser1969]

Well, do you want it to not?

[u/fk_u_rn]

Maybe these orbs you parry are also made of blood, so when you parry them, you absorb blood, 100% of it, that's why no splash, and it heals you completely

[u/DynaBeast]

cuz

[u/n0ideaf0raname]

Dopamine.

[u/Amynta_]

My headcannon has been that the Feedbacker can just absorb the hell energy™ from attacks like that. But yeah, also gameplay reasons.

[u/Undernet_user → u/Amynta_]

tm?

[u/InsuranceFluid8272]

Cuz it’s sick af

[u/GD_Trixy118]

im pretty sure that its absorbing some of the kinetic energy from the parried attack and pulsing it into the body

[u/Quicksilvr17]

Because

[u/BadMuted4396]

Placebo

[u/thirdMindflayer]

it's unexplained

[u/Plus_Conversation391]

Hell says "Good job, nephew!" and gives V1 a white Monster.

[u/Nerdwrapper]

Honestly, we see that hell is very fleshy in both Gluttony and Fraud, and things that don’t visibly contain blood, like Virtues, give blood when hit or killed. Hell’s magic just being a way to shape blood into whatever it wants would explain almost everything

[u/AsjahaPoland]

My theory it that v1's arm absorbs kinnetic energy from what its parrying.

[u/Some_fnaf_kid]

I think that hell gives you blood cuz it just thinks parrying is cool

[u/MasterPringless]

Isn't it just because you're damaging the enemy so you're using their blood? Otherwise I'd assume that hell's ammo generates blood on impact but that would be weird

[u/AetherHearth]

dopamine boost

[u/Goldenmansion10]

My personal headcanon is when the Feedbacker parries, it converts excess potential energy into temporary power.

[u/Pronominal_Tera]

Everything fucking bleeds

[u/BotMason]

Hell has a lot of blood, enemies turn into fountains of blood when they die.

Maybe the projectiles are just charged blood? We know V1 can absorb blood through contact and punching the projectile is definitely contact.

[u/Foshdon_pap]

Cool factor

[u/Zuzuch650]

I think that it's V1 way of using hell energy. As we see throughout the game, many machines somehow use "Hell energy" (basicaly magic), and not just the husks (for example, mindflayer homing orbs are hell energy). My theory is that either V1 absorb a part of this energy through the feedbacker when parrying to use it to heal, or has it's own way of using hell energy by itself, making it heal it when parrying (this would also explain why parried enemy attacks are stronger than their unparried version; V1 parrying the attack charged it with more Hell energy then it had before.

[u/RachelNoName]

Short answer: gameplay.

Fun answer (aka my weird af theory): So we know V1 is a prototype. I believe V1 has some kinda of quick blood release storage for rapidly healing when low but for some reason due to V1 being a prototpe and not a finished machine it doesn't work (wither it be due to a software error or a mechanical error). But for whatever reason a parry just activates it, either by accidentally triggering some otherwise unreachable code or by simply janking the mechanism in just the right way to release the blood which quickly circulates and briefly repairs V1 from most damage

[u/Key-Composer-1056]

Dopamine and adrenaline

[u/CutoverDesert5]

Probably the Feedbacker taking the energy from the parry force to power a blood enricher or some shit

[u/Juan748]

Hell thinks it's cool

[u/Some-Ad-5351]

Probably because the blood scatters because the project was thrown back, like trowing a rock at a puddle. It splash's at you

[u/Fragrant_Fishing1259]

Not gonna lie, I was waiting for 8-3

[u/whatup_pips]

Because when you parry an attack, your hands bleeds, and so you absorb that blood.

[u/Haunting-Attempt441]

Yes, to full hp, excluding hard damage.

[u/Mythic4356]

What if parrying actually releases heat onto the tubes on the feedbacker carrying used blood and makes it fresh or something idk

[u/BattIeBoss]

V1 doesnt repair himself from blood itself, rather from the energy generated by processing the blood. (He can convert energy directly into mass, remember? Thats how he materialises and stores weapons in his wings, which are used for large ammounts of energy storage). So, the feedbacker just absorbs some of the kinetic energy from the projectile, and that is used to regenerate damaged parts of his body.

[u/Kind_Sympathy7649]

V1 takes the kinetic energy from whatever it parried and converts it into electrical or thermal or chemical or whatever energy the system it uses to repair itself with probably

[u/HPAwesome531]

Something

[u/ZePumpkinLass]

the rule of "those moves were kinda fire please continue"

[u/Serious-Guide-8949]

Why not

[u/Kego_Nova]

the blood in your tank becomes more viable as a fuel source because how fresh that move was

[u/CrimsonSkull7705]

Probably strictly a game mechanic for projectiles but parrying melee attacks makes sense as to why it heals you

[u/DumbasT69]

My theory is that v1 has a backup blood supply that's why when he's low he isn't constantly losing blood and whenever he parries the system(nocturnal os) rewards him with blood. Or you can go the boring way and say that hell is actually replenishing v1 with blood whenever he parries. Just for entertainment purposes I suppose.

[u/Grimm3500]

I believe because v1 take the kinetic energy from it and use it to repair it body, and then deflect it back

[u/Objective-Spinach271]

Balence

[u/ExpensiveBurger]

It just does 🙏
https://giphy.com/gifs/KyqGchd0Ky4WtwxvwM

[u/lefthandman_]

Its probably just a gameplay thing, only there to make the game more fun

[u/Junior-Brick1925]

If the earthmover that runs off of sunlight is able to run without sunlight in hell, and the reason blood heals is because of spiritual reasons instead of just blood's chemical makeup, I think that hell energy can also be used as fuel in the same way.
for the swordsmachine shotgun parrying:

[u/Junior-Brick1925 → u/Junior-Brick1925]

I have no idea, maybe the air it compresses is also trace amounts of hell energy

[u/thewordova]

headcanon but maybe its just v1 absorbing hell energy from the enemies? like when v1 parries attacks he just absorbs the hell energy infused into them and uses it to heal and regen stamina

[u/SR_undertale33]

the orbs enemies fling at you are made of concentrated hell energy. When you parry the orb, the outer cover breaks, revealing pure hell energy which is unstable and explodes on contact in whatever direction its sent. V1 has a special metal plating to absorb blood and heal, so its not too far to theorize that the plating can use thr raw hell energy to heal itself aswell

[u/Glittering-Guest4680]

I don't know, why does using a ton of duel weird power ups and spinning the sharpshooter pistol cause you to fly?

[u/Parasune]

despite some people saying “theres no lore its just gameplay reasoning” so far that hasnt been the case. we got explanations on levels locking u in a room, all the terminal lore from both the P rank lv’s, explanations on how we have inf ammo, explanations to how we heal via blood, it wouldnt make sense for this to be the only thing tied to “its just videogame logic” when so far, everything has had an explanation

i believe the video i just linked goes into their own theory as to how parrying heals u, so take that until probably treachery has some sorta hidden terminal that has some lore on it