123 looks to be like Scorpion's fastest punish string (note, I've been using him for approximately 10 minutes, so there may be something better). Since you can cancel this to spear, it could be the start to a decent punish combo. If you're punishing something that has a small window, you can use the option select thing to make spear only come out on hit.
123xx spear, dd4 or whatever. It will spear on hit only, and if not, it stops at the 123 string which is safe. I tried hit confirming this string and I can do it, but this just makes it brain dead easy lol, thought I would share.