What is a 'Counter Move' and how do I do them?

[Teyloune]

I keep seeing Characters in World Tour that offer really neat items for me hitting them with 2 'counter moves', but I'm not sure how to do them. I did not find a simple answer/explanation when searching online.

Help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!

[Longy999]

A counter is when you hit your opponent just as they are about to hit you (already part way through their moves animation when your hit lands)
In WT mode you'll sometimes see your opponent turn white briefly, hit them during this for not only a counter but will stun them also if i remember rightly

[Lemiru]

Originally posted by Longy999:

A counter is when you hit your opponent just as they are about to hit you (already part way through their moves animation when your hit lands)
In WT mode you'll sometimes see your opponent turn white briefly, hit them during this for not only a counter but will stun them also if i remember rightly

Hitting opponents when they turn whitte is a different mechanic to counter, sure some of the hits will also count as counters but not always

[Longy999]

Originally posted by Lemiru:

Originally posted by Longy999:

A counter is when you hit your opponent just as they are about to hit you (already part way through their moves animation when your hit lands)
In WT mode you'll sometimes see your opponent turn white briefly, hit them during this for not only a counter but will stun them also if i remember rightly

Hitting opponents when they turn whitte is a different mechanic to counter, sure some of the hits will also count as counters but not always

Ah right, I wasn't completely sure about that one, played a bit of the WT mode but only came across it a couple of times. Seem to remember catching them while white and it bounced them off the wall and stunned them. I'm guessing the wall splat is if counter hit and no wall splat if not?

[Teyloune]

Thanks for the help! This seems pretty complicated. A lot of Characters I can fight pretty much never turn white when they do actions, so that makes applying this a bit difficult. And when I hit enemies when they try to hit me, it says on the side of the screen "Punish COunter" or "Counter Hit", which doesn't seem to count. Which seems weird to me. :(
I hope I can get this right, as I'm missing out on some neat cosmetics

[Lemiru]

Originally posted by Teyloune:

Thanks for the help! This seems pretty complicated. A lot of Characters I can fight pretty much never turn white when they do actions, so that makes applying this a bit difficult. And when I hit enemies when they try to hit me, it says on the side of the screen "Punish Counter", which doesn't seem to count. :(
I hope I can get this right, as I'm missing out on some neat cosmetics

I would imagine that a punish counter should still count as a counter here but just to be thorough, a Counter is when you hit your opponent when he's attempting to do an attack on his own while Punish Counter is when you hit your opponent during a recovery animation after he does an attack

[Teyloune]

Alright, then I keep trying! Thanks!

[Gikool]

Zangief's Tundra Storm counts as one. It's a unique move, so debuff with the super spicy chocolate if you need to depower it to get items.

[Teyloune]

Thanks!

[Skulker_S]

Originally posted by Gikool:

Zangief's Tundra Storm counts as one. It's a unique move, so debuff with the super spicy chocolate if you need to depower it to get items.

Oh, that's what the debuff items are for!
That makes sense

[DarkIsuka]

JP's "Amnesia" move counts as a counter move. Marisa has one too I think, don't remember the name of it though.

[Teyloune]

Thank you!

[weirdkid5]

When you get a "Counter Hit" it means you hit someone either during their startup or active frames of a move. This does bonus damage and makes them go into hitstun linger, making combos that weren't normally possible, well possible.

A Punish Counter is when you hit someone in their recovery frames of a move. This does the same bonus damage and extra hitstun, but also eats a bar of their Drive Gauge. Depending on the move you hit them with, you might get different effects as well. For example, Zangief's forward HK normally just knock them down, but if you get a Punish Counter, it bounces them off the floor making a follow up combo possible.

In practice Punish Counters are the same as Crush Counters from SF5.

[DifferentNoodles]

There are very, very specific moves that count as counter moves. Normal counters do not count, so just hitting them and getting a counter hit/punish counter etc. does not count for those challenges. There's a lot of very unclear language in the game. Unique attacks only count as projectiles despite there being specific attacks that are considered unique normally, etc. etc. Someone else above mentions some, but JP's down down kick is the only thing I've found that consistently counts as a 'counter move' per whatever mechanic there is in World Tour mode.

[Samvega]

Originally posted by DarkIsuka:

JP's "Amnesia" move counts as a counter move. Marisa has one too I think, don't remember the name of it though.

Marisa's is called scutum, which appropriately is a Roman shield.