Repetition, or, how to beat me without fail.

So, apparently, if you do a collection of patterns, I can beat you up. But, if you’ve chosen one pattern, and stuck with it until you’ve perfected the timing, it apparently doesn’t matter that I know it’s coming because I am TERRIBLE at countering it.

For instance, one person I fight kicks twice, slashes, and then runs away. I know this. Can I stop them? No. Not without taking a butt ton of damage.

Another person is Kick, Slash, Block, run, return, jumpslash, land, jumpslash, land, kick slash, block, run, return, jumpslash, jumpslash..

I could tell you what’s next just watching a video of them.

Can I stop it from killing me every time? NO!

I can’t figure it out. I’m doing something wrong, I just can’t see it.

It frustrates me to no end that a SINGLE repetative action is, for me, impossible to beat.

Kick slash block should be EASY for me to figure out a way to beat. But even if I counter the kick, block the slash, and block the jumpslashes, I’m still not up on damage. And eventually, I fail, and die.

Kick kick slash block is harder. Do I try to get two slashes into the two very fast kick times? Then I don’t have time to block the slash. Should I block the first kick, counter the second, and try to block the third slash? Still not that far up on damage.

What am I doing wrong, that repetative, albiet very skilled repetative, fighters are trashing me repeatedly? Why can’t I break the rythm?

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