I'm just sitting here doing duels trying to learn him and discover that using the Special Parry Evade that we are encouraged to use is earning him a combo to the face? The Defender has zero recovery from the supposed "counter attack" from the evade and is waiting for me with light attacks.. you can see him standing there in a fully recovered stance (has his inputs available) immediately after the evade "counter attack" on a special waiting for me to try to punish his special or chain onto the counter attack, however you view it
The basic attack evade/counter attack does grant me an opening in the beginning of the clip.. it's a very small opening, but if you input immediately as soon as humanly possible you can land an attack.. but the special evade Kindred is experiencing zero frame disadvantage and even has frame advantage I would say?
https://youtu.be/cOx2ZuJ2fEs?si=_12s_aRXlSuGX9ol
It's like the Evade/Counter attack animation is using up the recovery time Kinded would have had if I had just blocked the special instead.. so that he is already fully recovered as soon as the counter attack ends instead of extending or suspending it.. and/or being struck by the counter attack doesn't cause any recovery at all on Kindred