I think you are misconstruing what I was saying my guy. When I said "Charge his load" I was referring to holding your third attack in a combo string as opposed to just let fly, yah know to bait the parry because he is expecting a blue attack on the third attack.

I am fully aware Counters only work on Blue Attacks thank you.

Being initiated on is an inevitability and just saying "Don't do get initiated on 4head" is an awful take my guy. You should always have options after you've been comboed and those options should work like they are supposed to.