XVI and XIV implications

[Ath192]

TBH that example isn't really strategy. It's more akin to simply committing the correct reaction to muscle memory. Strategy would be more akin to the action games that actually give you meaningful options to customize your gear loadout or abilities to prepare for a boss fight or area which a number of them do better than FF16.
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It is strategy because there is no correct answer. Whether you attempt to dodge or parry or block every attack is down to what you plan on doing and nothing else.

Since you are planning on it it is strategy. Strategy normally involves what approach you are going to take to a given battle. Just because it’s simple doesn’t mean it isn’t a strategy.

strat·e·gy
/ˈstradəjē/
noun
a plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim.

Given the definition of strategy if your plan of action is to parry every attack possible and heal when you fail then that is your strategy to achieve the overall aim of winning. In your strategy, blocking would be secondary or not used.

Likewise your strategy to beat a boss could be run around like a coward spamming ranged attacks and nothing else. It’s a bad strategy but one nonetheless lol.