I never used Guard I was using Glide (fly a little) to dodge his moves and I ended up knowing all of his moves and when he use it, and not having quick select sucks O_O
But considering that you want to be 'in his face' as much as possible. It stops a lot of his more vicious attacks. I only use the 'hit and run' tactic in KH2 on the hades paradox cup: round 49.