mikiri counter sometimes doesnt work on Ashina Genichiro

[Verlish]

what is the indicator to ensure successful mikiri counter? I got no problem with it before, but when i try to fight Genichiro, sometimes it doesnt work, my knockback animation still playing when i try to dash toward him even though my posture is still yellow.

I've beat that dude before, but it was just a beginner's luck because i'm always lose when i try to fight him again.

[causality]

That's normal, he will knock you back on a successful mikiri counter.

edit; Just fought all 3 of his variant reflections and he wasn't knocking me back on mikiri counters. Not sure what you mean then.

[itzkilas]

The Knockback animation happens to Geni as well resulting him to be on the aggressive initiating with a stab attack. You don't have to dash towards him for mikiri counter to activate, for more consistency, you can just stand still(not dash) and time your button press (dodge/mikiri counter button) as soon as Geni rushes at u with the stab. With practice, it'll click once you get the timing down, hope this helps.

Side note: You can mikiri counter and PERFECT deflect while having max posture use, if you don't believe me then watch ONGBAL on YouTube, highly recommend watching him, his videos alone have taught me more than what I have learned by my self experience in the game.

[Verlish]

Originally posted by causality:

That's normal, he will knock you back on a successful mikiri counter.

edit; Just fought all 3 of his variant reflections and he wasn't knocking me back on mikiri counters. Not sure what you mean then.

Whenever Genichiro want to perform his perilious attack, he will do a heavy attack from above that will knock out the wolf. Sometimes, my knockback animation is still playing while Genichiro begin his perilious attack so i lose control over my character and cannot do mikiri counter. Sometimes it happen, sometimes it not, i don't know what's goin on.

Originally posted by itzkilas:

The Knockback animation happens to Geni as well resulting him to be on the aggressive initiating with a stab attack. You don't have to dash towards him for mikiri counter to activate, for more consistency, you can just stand still(not dash) and time your button press (dodge/mikiri counter button) as soon as Geni rushes at u with the stab. With practice, it'll click once you get the timing down, hope this helps.

Side note: You can mikiri counter and PERFECT deflect while having max posture use, if you don't believe me then watch ONGBAL on YouTube, highly recommend watching him, his videos alone have taught me more than what I have learned by my self experience in the game.

i just try it and it worked! oh my god i don't know it's that simple. I've recently beat Genichiro using that trick, thanks man!

[Apoloyn]

It hasn't hard to understand:

The Mikri Counter works when he does his Unbreakable attack, on his first life. Once you get him down to his last life, you can't Mikri Counter his unbreakable and instead can jump on his head, stun him and then proceed to attack him. You could also simply jump away and then start attacking him.

If he does his unbreakable 'sweeping attack' on his first life (Quite rare), then do the later strategy, I mentioned above.

[Apoloyn]

You also stated: "I've beat that dude before, but it was just a beginner's luck because i'm always lose when i try to fight him again."

Thats b/c your facing him in Reflections, which makes the bosses, (esp. Genichiro) much, much more harder to beat. I had the same experience as well and had to radically change my approach to him, so don't use the same tactics.

[Verlish]

Originally posted by Apoloyn:

It hasn't hard to understand:

The Mikri Counter works when he does his Unbreakable attack, on his first life. Once you get him down to his last life, you can't Mikri Counter his unbreakable and instead can jump on his head, stun him and then proceed to attack him. You could also simply jump away and then start attacking him.

If he does his unbreakable 'sweeping attack' on his first life (Quite rare), then do the later strategy, I mentioned above.

I know about that, man, in fact, i refrain from doing mikiri counter in his 2nd state

I have a hard time to explain what my problem were,

after Genichiro doing his leaping slam, he will follow up with an attack that could be counter with mikiri. However, sometimes, my knockback animation from parrying his leaping slam is still played so i could not perform mikiri counter to counter his follow up attack. I've tried to spam my button, sometimes it work, sometimes it's not, i failed to understand what is the indicator for Genichiro's thurst attack that couldnt "mikiri counter"-ed.

But it's not a problem anymore, i could beat him with relative ease now.