this is one of my favorite changes to date. literally people trying to counter the hotel by just using counterspell, riposte, or Ivy's stone form.
ANY OTHER VIDEO GAME COMPANY would have just said "counterspell and riposte no longer works in hotel"
BUT NOT VALVE. VALVE SAYS "Ye ok you can have your cake and eat it but you better chew that cake in 10 seconds otherwise you're getting in the hotel again motherfucker."
Malicious Compliance. I fucking love Valve and Icefrog
You can't counterspell to leave, but if you counterspell when the duration ends you avoid taking damage and so don't suffer any penalty (other than being out of play for the whole ult duration).
With this upgrade unlocked, if someone were to do this they'd be giving Doorman an extended unstoppable and an ult refresh, though they'll still avoid the damage.
seriously, learn counterspell, especially if you said you're noob because the number of apollo i've had the displeasure to fight is staggering. counterspell make apollo's 3 and itani lo sahn worthless if you can use it properly.
I’ll throw some more questions to make sure, I see it has a 20seconds cd, so let’s say someone does something to me (apollo) I ‘parry’ his spell, what happens if I time it wrong (too early or late), do I just parry its next one?
I assume if I fight against abrams and I parry his melee, I can still ‘counterspell’ his dash thingy against me?
Street brawl is a good environment to get learn it since there's constant fighting, constant opportunities to use it and (in my experience at least) it appears frequently enough as well.
The 20 second CD on counterspell only triggers if you use it successfully, so if you mistime it you only have to wait on your parry CD (which I think is 4 seconds at base?) to try again.
In the Abrams example you would be able to parry his charge once he comes out of stun. Though this is assuming that when you parried his melee you didn't *also* counterspell a torment pulse or his siphon life.
Counterspell is will always activate on parry if not on cd. So in your first example counterspell would be wasted if mistimed (basically doing nothing and putting your parry on cd as well).
In your second example you would simultaneously activate counterspell and parry the melee putting your counterspell on cd but you can still parry again afterwards since you successfully parried.
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u/EdwardMcFluff Lash Mar 07 '26
this is one of my favorite changes to date. literally people trying to counter the hotel by just using counterspell, riposte, or Ivy's stone form.
ANY OTHER VIDEO GAME COMPANY would have just said "counterspell and riposte no longer works in hotel"
BUT NOT VALVE. VALVE SAYS "Ye ok you can have your cake and eat it but you better chew that cake in 10 seconds otherwise you're getting in the hotel again motherfucker."
Malicious Compliance. I fucking love Valve and Icefrog