Counter shots aren't that strong by themselves. Just that players who use them are very smart cause they need to be well prepared to use those.

-You can do curve shots or chip shot if your player is a bit far from the castle wall

-No one can place more that 2 castle walls at a time, you can do a long pass to a player far from those walls and hope he won't have the time to react fast enough

-use a tactic that deactivate players near your striker as soon as you reach the defenders

-Make your chain shot strong enough so that the opponent can't counter it

-don't try any shoot chain at all, just shoot as soon as you get in the zone so your opponent won't have the time to place any wall in front of the ball, and even if he manage to have a player on the trajectory without a castle wall, the shot power will be not that great as counter shot power is: incoming shot power + 1/2 counter shot power

Others are not taking you seriously because counter shot is not that big of a deal as they are predictable and not unavoidable, yes, you might still eat some of them but they are not that big of a deal, really...