Hm... I haven't played DOA in almost a year and a bit now but... I'll give my two cents on Brad anyhow since I main him / did so much work for him in the past.
Crimson, I like your changes of what you would like for him and agree to a certain extent that he needs more evasiveness.
Some...
That's how it works in other games yeah but I saw no implications of that in the gameplay / trailer vids we were given as to why I asked / thought of the question. Considering it's a hold and not an attack it's still a bit of a gray area on whether we know or not. Hopefully it does consume...
The question I have is if you bait out a Break hold and get a HCT will it reset their bar because if it doesn't then... baiting it is kind of pointless in a way. I also wonder if the hold animation is any different so that you can distinguish from if they're going to regular hold or Break hold.