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He says they are universal and easy to mash but not every character has parries and you can avoid them with high and low jabs

All it means it the opponent should stop trying to mash mids. You can't "Mash" a mid parry successfully unless mids are being "mashed" at you. Otherwise you're just twitching, the opponent sees that, and punishes you with something other than a mid.

That's what I'm saying XD parries are done outside of stun and from a smart guess or good read. If you mash a parry then that opens you up for hi counter damage. Sabaki parries I agree are a bit mashable because they have follow ups but even then they can be thrown on good read

Overall if a character has a parry and they "mash" it, just use a high or a low or better yet a throw

I mean, there's a pretty simple conclusion, here.

Did you legitimately see it coming, and that's why you parried? Cool, that was a read.

Were you just mashing the button hoping they'd fall for it? Then no, it wasn't a read.

Either way if you get it, it can't be called a mash since you got it from the opponent hitting in that area

^exactly. Otherwise....it's not a parry. It's just you twitching for a second.

You can escape standing throws just by low holding. You can low hold expecting to get hit with a low but your opponent went for the 6T instead yet you are still safe in the long run because you are within a crouch position, so you enable low holds to eliminate two options, not based on a read.

I think reads is tossed around from time to time. There's expectation or prediction (somewhat?) to what comes next. Sidestepping within a string that isn't a natural combo can be considered reads.

What I mean is that you know the Gen fu player Seigen? Brad fights him alot and says that all he does is "mash" parry and I told him that if he(Brad) is consistently being parried then it's not really mashing, Seigen knows brad is gonna do a mid and just uses a parry...

....on a read which Brad consistently is shut down by. He also adds to this by saying it's universal since the characters he uses have "alot of mids" and that Kasumi's best launchers are mids which I agree with but you shouldn't use slow mid launcher outside of stun much plus you can use a high or low to bypass a mid parry

Or a low or mid to bypass a high parry, which is why I don't get why he says a parry that is consistently successful deemed mashing

I mean like, it's the term usage. When I hear mashing, I expect the Gen Fu player to constantly input the parry in hopes he will catch the move. Basically he puts up a shell because it's an option that eliminates two options which is a punch and a kick command.

So far, the Gen Fu player is doing justice properly because the other player tried to hit a button again.

It's not a read really. It's your friend's fault for hitting buttons he's not suppose to where the activation limits of parry will commence and still catch him.

If he does it once and the parry lands sure, I suppose you can count that as a read. 2 and 3 more times? it seems more like overcompensation or fear of getting hit, yet it can still work. Shit, if I was Gen Fu I'd do it twice or three times too because the risk reward of losing is pretty low there. Especially if Gen Fu has the health lead.

I think Brad just needs to use less mids and if it's a consistent thing maybe he should opt go wait out his parry and just throw it assuming he parries out of habit xD