When the frick do you guard break?!

[ShiroKansen]

I keep guard breaking but they won't stop attacking and when I ATTACK they guard break me easily, I seriously don't get this mechanic.

[Knight Commander Martellus]

If you guard break when they throw out an attack, It will instantly cancel your guardbreak, The best time to guardbreak is to do it before the attack, So telegraph your enemy, Or guard break after a parry.

If the enemy guard breaks your when you attack, It's because they got off the move before your attack, On your screen it might look vice versa, But even having a better computer or faster internet can make fights tip in a different prospective and make it slightly harder for you, Or you might miss something by a mili-second while the person your fighting isn't.

[Blacklion]

Try also going for gbs while the opponent is recovering from dodging after whiffing particular attacks like LB's long arm

I've been getting guardbroken out of GB attempts a lot recently. Not sure if this is lag from my opponent or a bug. Gets annoying when you lose a duel to a ledge that way.

[meh¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

There is a small window in the startup of your hit animation where you can get guard broken without the ability to counter it. Its the first 100ms for light attacks and 200ms for heavies iirc.

@Always_uncomfortable, guard break after parrying is not guaranteed

Guard break is guaranteed when certain moves, with high recovery time, whiff. Also, if you catch someone while he's dodging and lastly, after blocking an attack with the superior block property that some heroes have (e.g kensei, valkyrie). Berserker's deflect also lands a guaranteed guardbreak.

There are a few characters like raider and kensei who have dash/dodge+ guardbreak moves in their moveset and they can counter guard break while executing them most of the time, so the guaranteed in dodge guard break doesn't always apply for these characters

[-StarlinkEDMPaypal-]

change GUard break butten to ' space ' instant to mouse middle key (it is hard to counter guardbreak