Countering

[ryangil23]

Is there really any way to counter other than the leaning straight after slipping a jab? Everything else seems very unreliable and you get hit by the follow up or they just miss.

[CAPTAINKUKAMUNGA]

Re: Countering

Is there really any way to counter other than the leaning straight after slipping a jab? Everything else seems very unreliable and you get hit by the follow up or they just miss.

Yeah i agree with you just picked Al Iaquinta and fought diaz why the hell are his punches so fast its pretty much impossible to use head movement effectively against him or mcgregors slips need to be sped up or some fighters punches slowed down its a joke.

[ATTBoxer]

Re: Countering

Try slipping left to right to slip both the initial and follow up punch and follow with a hook from the side you're slipping

[ryangil23]

Re: Countering

Yeah i agree with you just picked Al Iaquinta and fought diaz why the hell are his punches so fast its pretty much impossible to use head movement effectively against him or mcgregors slips need to be sped up or some fighters punches slowed down its a joke.

Best you can do is try to block as much of them as possible, try to land your own and hope they don't block as many of yours It seems

[ryangil23]

Re: Countering

Try slipping left to right to slip both the initial and follow up punch and follow with a hook from the side you're slipping

Does that work for hooks? It's the hooks that are mostly the problem for me.

[HereticGabriel]

Re: Countering

Does that work for hooks? It's the hooks that are mostly the problem for me.

You can’t really do much against the hook spam. Ducking doesn’t really work 75% of the time, leaning back is a 50/50 really. Best option is block 3, and try to back sway or duck to drain stamina and throw a quick counter, hoping the hook didn’t hit you anyways

[ryangil23]

Re: Countering

You can’t really do much against the hook spam. Ducking doesn’t really work 75% of the time, leaning back is a 50/50 really. Best option is block 3, and try to back sway or duck to drain stamina and throw a quick counter, hoping the hook didn’t hit you anyways

Yeah that's what I'm finding as well. Can only seem to dodge the hook if it's the last punch. Even when I try to chain the slips I still get hit. Funnily enough sometimes when I'm messing around and wiggle the stick like mad I actually manage to dodge the punches more than I thought I would lmao.

[Phillyboi207]

Re: Countering

You can’t really do much against the hook spam. Ducking doesn’t really work 75% of the time, leaning back is a 50/50 really. Best option is block 3, and try to back sway or duck to drain stamina and throw a quick counter, hoping the hook didn’t hit you anyways

Depends fighter height and distance

Ducking works if done early (and you’re not way taller) and back sway works if you already have some space between y’all

[Solid_Altair]

Re: Countering

Is there really any way to counter other than the leaning straight after slipping a jab? Everything else seems very unreliable and you get hit by the follow up or they just miss.

That is the only fast enough counter, yes.

[MeowingForVengeance]

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Funnily enough sometimes when I'm messing around and wiggle the stick like mad I actually manage to dodge the punches more than I thought I would lmao.

Honestly way more effective than trying to use head movement 'properly.' When I try to use head movement like the game wants you to, either punches follow my head and I get hit anyway or I guess wrong and sway right into a KO punch.

I just block and fire back, Gaethje style. Doesn't always work, but at least it's consistent and makes sense, which is more than I can say for the head movement system in this game.