Sword Counter
Gains Fortification for 12 seconds and deals damage equal to 200% of Physical Attack Power to the attacker upon successfully guarding against a melee attack.
Effects & keywords
Fortification (on user): +35% Guard Chance+35% Guard Chance
Damage
33.8% of Acid Slogel HPHow the math works
Each counter deals 200% of this unit's Physical Attack Power to the unit whose hit was guarded. The size of the guarded hit does not change it.
Where it lands: The counter is a new hit from this unit, with the physical and melee types of Sword Counter. It goes through all the normal hit steps. It can miss, the target can guard it, it can crit with this unit's Critical Chance, and the target's Physical Resist lowers it.
When it runs: For 12s after the cast, every melee hit that this unit guards starts one counter. There is no limit and no wait between counters.
What it applies to: Melee physical hits only. Only physical hits can be guarded, and the counter check also needs the guarded hit to be a melee attack. Ranged hits, magic hits and hits that have no attack type never start a counter. Bleeding ticks have no attacker, so they never start one.
Things the tooltip does not tell you
- The counter can crit. It uses the same crit roll as any other hit, with this unit's Critical Chance.
- The counter is not a sure hit. It can miss, and the target can guard it.
- Counters need the Sword Counter buff from the cast. Having the skill is not enough.
How it interacts with other effects
- Blade Spirit: a counter that crits restores Blade Spirit's Energy. The game counts the counter as a Sword Counter skill hit that is physical and melee and is not a basic attack. The code has no check that leaves counters out.
- Fortification from the same cast raises Guard Chance for the same time. More guards give more counters.
See also: Blade Spirit.
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Numbers
| Range | 0 |
| Start delay | 0.2s |
| End delay | 0.2s |
| Cooldown | 18s |
| Duration | 12s |
| Energy cost | 4 |
| Durability cost | 2 (Primary) |
| Required equipment | Sword |
| Skill points to learn | 8 |
| Required level | 0 |
| Basic attack skill | no |
| Delay scales with attack speed | no |
| Can target over walls | no |
| Raw values | 12, 200 |
Time spans in the description above (buff uptime, burn duration) are read from the skill's raw values and can differ from this Duration field, which is the skill's own separate duration timer.
Range and area
This skill is cast on the caster itself. It has no target tile and no area, so there is nothing to aim: it always affects the unit that uses it.
Prerequisites
Unlocks: 
Pommel Strike
Tree position
Sword Skill Tree - Tier 1, column 3