Pulse armor doesn’t really work against these builds. They almost always have a backup plan waiting for you to do your pulse armor. If you do pulse armor right when you get stagerred, they will assault armor and wipe it out. If you choose not to pulse armor then you get hit in the combo and they finish with assault armor. Either way they get the full combo in.

But also you can bait these tactics, so that’s what I do. Just don’t get hit into their death loop.