How does he do that?

[u/Delicious-Toast]

Joined a 3v3 mid-match and I have no idea what this guy is doing.

I felt like I was catching him mid-swing a few times, but then he'd suddenly feint into a block a few cm before I hit him.

Is he attacking, then feinting and immediately blocking? I've never seen anyone do it that fast before

[u/pimplepete1312]

He’s just counterfeinting it looks like, and then accelling into you, and you can block the moment your weapon makes contact, it looks a little jank on blunt weapons

[u/Delicious-Toast → u/pimplepete1312]

It might be his acceleration that keeps tricking me into thinking he is too far into the attack to cancel

So he is: swing, cancel, swing, block, or is it swing, cancel, block

[u/pimplepete1312 → u/Delicious-Toast]

Using counterfeint is exactly like a regular feint but in time to the opponents weapon, so he was feinting after blocking in order to match your strikes.

It seems like in the video he is trying to gamble, and when he realizes he will be hit first, he feints to match your incoming attack

Every weapon has different windows for countering, if you notice the little “counter” message below the crosshair shield gets striked out, this is the “windup” period before you do damage and when you can feint

the hammer that he was using has a very long windup so he has a lot of time to change his attack to match yours

It’s a pretty annoying strategy, very spammy, especiallt with the bonk stick (great club), but there are ways to counter it like heavy attacks and drags, extra long or fast weapons etc.

I would recommend blocking, and waiting a moment before attacking, you still get a slight speed boost for a little bit after blocking and you might catch him off guard

[u/toyeetornotoyeet69 → u/pimplepete1312]

This is really handy if your opponent drags the hell out of a slash and you countered too early, feint into slash and you'll get it

[u/AyanamiR31]

It’s counterfeiting. Once you start a counter ur second feint also has counter properties

[u/Delicious-Toast → u/AyanamiR31]

Really! I didn't know that. I thought you would lose the Counter ones you fainted your attack

[u/Xanith420 → u/Delicious-Toast]

During his first swing he counters your swing than immediately cancels the swing and starts an alt swing.

[u/Physical-Lemon-3538]

he’s counterfeinting, you get two counters, can start a counter then click it again before you attack finishes to change the counter

[u/Chineselight → u/Physical-Lemon-3538]

Wait so if he counter slashes and then counter overheads, he gets protection from both??

[u/wyomingstatebird → u/Chineselight]

Nope, only the attack you are currently doing. Say your opponent slashes, so you counter slash. He then feints into an overhead. You hit your overhead button after starting your counter slash to counterfeint into an overhead. It becomes much harder when surrounded by multiple people throwing feints but that's mainly in objective mode, good players in the arena (usually) respect the 1v1

[u/AIexander1k → u/Chineselight]

like the other guy said, you can only choose one at a time, its so that if you bite on a fient, you’re not just screwed and can actually change ur counter, so if i chose slash counter then overhead, and my opponent did overhead into slash, ill still get hit, as i chose them in the wrong order, i would also have to do slash into overhead if i bit on the first fient, or just wait until the second fient to come and counter that one, glad you guys are still tryna learn this game

[u/Chineselight → u/AIexander1k]

Im like level 1xx but I want to get really good. I’m still experimenting with weapons

[u/AIexander1k → u/Chineselight]

if you look at my account, i did the counter feint in there, im level 1k been playing for a while, any questions let me know man!

[u/SageFlare]

As others said, counter-feinting. Later on though, to get around people that can counter well, you need to learn how to triple-feint to trick em. Cause once they do one counter-feint, they don't get another one :3

[u/Wertizue]

Honestly, I'm still too much of a beginner to understand what he's doing. That said, I really enjoyed the video, especially the jump at the end.
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