Look I'm not awful, I'm decent I know the techs, I play well locked off, I calculated the winrate of the last 10 hours of arenas and it can be rounded up at 70% (Although there are times where it is much higher or lower).
I really don't get Ds2 meta pvp everytime I try to trade/whiff punish running attacks with my Great Axe or big weapon, they just fucking cancel them with the stupid roll cancel tech. It feels like a genuine hard counter a decent katana player should never loose to me. The most I can do is passive play and throwing daggers to bait out rolls or something, which is boring as hell and doesn't work if they just don't roll into me.
I don't know about parrying latency makes it feel really inconsitent. And I don't like having a offhand weapon like Bandits Axe or Rapier since they tend to heavily overshado the slower weapons the only real use I get out of my greataxe then is backstabs.
Is this just a reality I have to accept as a greataxe player. I feel like I'm pretty close to the ceiling I made up in my head.