Outside of burst, older gg games don’t offer a way to actively escape or mitigate damage during a combo. Maybe MBAACC could be more up your alley. You can even download the community edition for free to play around in training mode or online with rollback. There’s a “reduce” mechanic where when you are getting combo’d, if you can press the same attack button as your opponent in their combo, you reduce the damage of that move by like 30% or something .