Arcade Fire87

Well, that's why I use it, if you hit me it does a some damage, if I get you with it I do enough to make up for it, imo. (However, if I'm getting punished a ton I'd scale it back.) I don't mash it, I just reflexively do it when I think I'm gonna get hit, sometimes the counter comes out. Like when you saw me fighting a Tager once and he'd hit me with a poke then try to sledge, which would ordinarily be a combo, but I'm so used to countering sledge on reaction I hit counter anyway and it just so happened that he didn't have the timing tight enough which let the counter come out. Otherwise I try to counter when I think you might attack me. I have the timing and spacing good enough from experience for a lot of it that I can avoid punishment unless I'm real close. I dunno what you mean by mashing otherwise though... your blockstring is airtight and it's not like Inferno Divider where I hit you whether or not you do anything.