PPR — Perfect Parry & Counter

A Valheim combat mod that rewards skillful blocking. Land a perfectly-timed parry to unlock a devastating counter-attack, reduce incoming damage, and mark the moment with a visual cue above your head.

Features

Perfect Parry Detection

• Time your block precisely when an attack lands to trigger a Perfect Parry
• The parry window is tighter than the vanilla perfect-block window (default: 0.1 s vs vanilla 0.25 s)
• Works with melee weapons that have a secondary (special) attack

Counter Attack

• After a successful parry, press your secondary attack key within the counter window (default: 0.6 s) to trigger a counter
• The counter fires your weapon's special attack at high speed (default: 2.5×)
• Only one counter per parry — use it or lose it

Damage Reduction

• While the counter window is active you take reduced damage (default: 50%)
• Toggleable and adjustable in the config

Guard Gauge Protection (v1.0.1)

• On a successful perfect parry, the stagger (guard) gauge does not increase
• The hit's stagger contribution is reverted the instant a parry is confirmed
• Consistent perfect parrying means your guard bar stays clean no matter how hard the hits are
• Toggleable in config

Head VFX

• A VFX effect appears above the player's head on successful parry
• Disappears automatically when the counter is used or the window expires
• Prefab name and position offset are all configurable

Configuration (F1 in-game)

Requirements

• BepInEx 5.4.x
• Valheim 0.221.x or later

Compatibility

• Melee weapons only — ranged weapons are not affected
• Multiplayer: applied to the local player only (no server sync)

Installation

r2modman / Thunderstore Mod Manager (recommended)

1. Search for PPR in the mod manager and install

Manual

1. Extract the zip
2. Copy BepInEx/ into your Valheim folder
3. Launch the game

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md

💬 Support / 지원

Discord: KorCaptainSkillTree_MOD_Server — https://discord.gg/W26PTxYhug

Issues: Report bugs and suggestions on Discord 문제 보고: Discord에서 버그 및 제안사항 보고

Changelog

v1.2.0

• NEW Perfect Parry VFX color customization via hex code in config (default: #4DB8FF blue)
• NEW Vanilla vfx_blocked suppressed on perfect parry — replaced with custom-colored version of the same effect; normal parry still shows original white vfx_blocked
• NEW Projectile reflection on Perfect Parry — 3× attacker's original damage (configurable)
• NEW Projectile reflection on Normal Parry — any successful block reflects at 2× (configurable)
• NEW Reflected damage uses attacker's pre-block damage as the base value
• NEW Reflection direction follows player look direction
• NEW Ranged No Stagger — ranged attackers are not staggered when projectile is blocked or reflected
• FIX Normal Parry Reflect now works independently of the Perfect Parry enable toggle
• TWEAK Default counter input window: 1.0s (was 0.6s)
• TWEAK Default counter animation speed: 2.0× (was 2.5×)
• TWEAK Default VFX Y offset: 1.25 (was 2.5)

v1.0.0

• Initial release
• Perfect Parry detection with configurable timing window (default 0.1s)
• Counter attack triggered by secondary attack within counter window
• Counter animation speed multiplier
• Damage reduction during counter window (default 50%)
• VFX effect above player head on successful parry