How to - Spell canceling - Unlimited wrath of the gods setup/build potential!

Welcome back to the tech talk series and I am here to assure you that this is gonna be a very interesting episode. We have covered a good chunk of useful tech so we are kind-of nearing the end of the series. Today's episode is dedicated to a gimmick that turns boring miracle setups into ones that are super fun to use; a gimmick that makes Dark Souls Remastered faith build-META game stronger than in any other Souls game. We are talking about spell canceling. First, let me clarify that you can cancel many different spells and in this video I will teach you how to cancel all those fancy spells, but mainly, I want to focus on the useful stuff - as in, the best setup or build for spell canceling, which utilizes the Wrath of the Gods. ...but before we jump to the build and setup details, lets talk execution. What is spell canceling and how it works? Well, it utilizes the same princile that we have covered in the very first episode of the series - the animation priority. Much like toggle escaping that allows you to override the stagger animation, you can use a specific animaiton to cancel the spell casting process. In our case it is the little pivot animation that gets the job done: you flick the stick back and get the pivot - it's very straightforward. If you do the pivot right after you start casting the spell or a miracle - it will override the casting animaion and cancel it - again, very simple. The difficulty of the process comes from the fact that every spell and miracle has a unique cancel window, a window when you can flick stick, pivot, to cancel the casting animation. On top of that, not every spell or a miracle can be canceled. In other words make sure that the spell that you want to cancel is cancelable, then just start casting it and flick the stick for the pivot, if you do everything correctly it will get canceled. After just a few tries you should get a good idea as to how big or how small the cancelation window is. Once you get the feel for it - it becomes natural, allowing you inject some sick cool-*** mindgames into your gameplan. Mindgames you may ask? Well, yes - in most cases you should be canceling the spell in order to bait a premature reaction out of your opponent and then punish it, say you cancel the spell - your oppnent does a forward roll trying to get better positioning to punish you, but since you are canceling the spell - you are free of recovery, so you can get a good chance to punish them. Now I should probably give you a full list of cancelable pyro shenanigans, spells and miracles... but I'm not gonna do that, instead I will focus on two most useful examples. First up we're gonna cover the Great Chaos Fireball. It is nowhere near as good as WOTG for the canceling setups, but it works. If you want my honest opinion I don't think that it is that useful, but it is still porbably the 2nd best example for tech. Anyway, yes you can bait the reaction by canceling it or you can throw it under your feet, thanks to the AoE lava effect it can catch people in panic. The timing isn't very strict, it's pretty easy to figure how to cancel it, but it is more of a gimmick really; as I have said it is not even close when it comes to its efficiency compared to the Wrath of the Gods, which is by far the best and most legit thing with the proper cancels. With spell canceling you can turn a basic WoTG faith setup into a fake 50/50 machine, I say fake because it is still technically reactable, but it is a lot more scary if you can cancel it. It is the same deal again, you cancel it to bait the reaction and if they misroll it - you get the clean hit of WOTG and a combo. It opens up some room for cool mindgames, especially on wakeup: since you have to be very precise with your rolls if they are trying to pressure you. Before the removal of dead angling it was even stronger, because you could get around the shield and what-not but it still as fun as it has ever been. I hope this video makes it popular again, because I am yet to see a non-veteran player cancel the WOTG attempt and it is a shame. It looks stylish, it is super functional and it spices up the usual, boring magic/pyro/miracle META game nicely. If you have any questions feel free to let me know, I'll do my best to answer them for you. Thank you for watching and I'll see you next time!