REO has brainwashed the masses with this "armor attacks are broken in Mortal Kombat X" propaganda to the extent that NRS designers have removed all launching armor attacks from the game. As soon as the patch was released, he began a campaign to remove Kitana's armor on throat slash and succeeded. He is now trying to do the same with Ermac's EX push and Kenshi's EX overhead slash.
I have to inform the community that while the zoning has been improved in this game, so has the rush down. You now spend a bar for an armor attack that barely leads to any damage and is sometimes unsafe on block. This game still has issues, but armor attacks are no longer one of them.