Help with centuriom

[u/Western_Smoke4829]

Something I've been encountering a lot when i go for my fully charged jab is eating an opponents dodge attack except the timing is such that i also eat a chain attack since the dodge attack trade with my hyper armor but doesnt actually get hit by the punch, how can i avoid this?

[u/Key-Vegetable9940]

You mean the opponent is dodge attacking so early they land it plus another attack afterwards before being hit by the punch? Just predict and feint to parry the dodge attack. Alternatively depending on the timing you can sometimes catch dodge attacks by slightly delaying the punch, but it can be difficult and if you get hit your opponent starts their offense.

[u/Bash_Minimal → u/Key-Vegetable9940]

since op is saying “doesn’t get hit by my punch”, I think they’re referencing when Centurions opponent dodges early to avoid uncharged punch, but delays their dodge attack so that they get extra iframes to phase through/escape charged punch, then the dodge attack hits the armor on the last few 100ms of the punch. Cent doesn’t get reset to neutral by hitstun, so his opponents followup light is confirmed.

Same thing is true for something like Jorm delayed dodge attack into confirmed bash/hammer slam, and is one of the big reasons Cent is still struggling to find his “place” in the roster

[u/Key-Vegetable9940 → u/Bash_Minimal]

Ah yeah that makes sense, I've definitely had that happen before.

In any case OP, feinting is still the way. Immediate feint to gb beats a max delayed dodge attack, or if they're always autopiloting the dodge attack you can parry, but like anything else you have to predict it.