Eddy Wang
Skarlet scientist
Purple means Counter Reading Defensively,
Green means Counter Reading Offensively:
........ = Frame gaps where your opponent will armor
**** = Frame Disadvantage where your opponent will try to punish.
General Explanation: When any character with armor reads a hole on your pressure, and he armors to escape it, and you touch his armor with any normal and cancel using your character's armor right after to nullify your opponent armor and punish is called "Counter Read"
Why is this called counter read, and not counter armor?
Its called Counter Read because you can only do it, if you actually read your opponent will armor out of something you do, desperately to catch you off guard and escape your setups.
Every Character with armor can use counter reads, still, those who has better armor can do it effectively against others.
Skarlet i.e the character in subject on this topic can take advantage of this for several reasons.
+Downslash starter gets full damaging combos 30% can be squeezed out of it out of a Counter Read.
+ Some characters even takes longer to recover when they use armor moves which will make F4 a good starter
+ A counter read makes the opponent badly spend his meter, and if he uses breaker after a "counter read punish", he will have nothing.
+ Still hit confirm-able if the opponent doesn't armor out of it
+ Still hit confirm-able against characters who can cancel they armor to counter Skarlet armor (i.e Kabal, Rain, Jade)
- If they don't use armor Skarlet loses a bar of meter, but gets free pressure.
1# Counter Read while you check between frame gaps:
Opponents who doesn't respect a F4 check after Skarlet succeeds on landing a D4 (vs standing) and D3 (vs Crouching) on hit:
D4 ....... F4~Ex RD
D3(vs Crouch) ..... F4~Ex RD
2# Counter Reads while pressure with vulnerable disadvantage
Opponents who know these strings are very punishable after they block it:
F312~****~Ex RD
F3,3~****~Ex RD
Characters who can escape Skarlet's counter reads after using armor:
Jade
Kabal
Rain
Skarlet
Characters who can escape it with X-Ray Cancels
Sub-Zero
Smoke
Characters who can block a downslash out of a counter read after using armor.
Jax (Ex Ovearhead smash), (Ex dash Punsh)
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Counter Reads combo starters Starter deals 1% more damage on any armor, but in the end of the combo, the BnB itself should have 5% more damage. Which can only mean one thing.
Any character that utilizes armor, becomes vulnerable during its recovery and the combos will possibly deal more damage than usual.
So make sure you use retarted damage when you punish a character who just used armor.
In this video you'll see regular Resets BnBs doing stupid damage.
