Since the developers can't be bothered to explain the game's mechanics clearly let's try to gather up information on how exactly this PK's tripple stab block mechanic works.
To clarify I am talking about the post GB 3 stabs. To further clarify I am talking about blocking it. I am not talking about counter guard-breaking. If you say counter guard break, you will be mocked. I am also not talking about the PK bungling up the timing, a different animation occurs for that.
Some people are saying it's a bug. For the meantime I disagree, mostly because that would mean the Peacekeeper has an attack with almost no wind-up time that deals around 50% on some heroes with no way to mitigate the damage outside the small wind-up window, and I refuse to believe that the developers are that clueless about balance to think that's acceptable.
In my experience I have found it to trigger when I attempt a parry to the right, though at times I almost feel like it is triggered without moving my mouse and simply right-clicking, I am still clueless on the timing. If anyone has any clearer testing done for this, please share your results.
I don't think it's a bug either. I haven't quite figured out how it works but it's a WIP. The max damage it does is I believe roughly 40% give or take of an assassins character. I also think there is guts scaling (aka health scaling). Meaning that the lower your health the less damage you take. What the % is I don't know.
I've also found somethings I didn't notice before (now that I have my sparring partner I'm seeing new things).
For example, the bezerserks Throw after a GB causes damage be it from a deflect or just a straight u GB. So you can literally throw someone to death. I haven't tested it with all the other characters so far but the PK's throw deals 0 damage.
Also Heavy attacks cause chip damage light attacks do not.
This game doesn't have a record/playback feature like fighting games have so you can't practice.
I spent (i.e. WASTED since in 10 minutes the bot will do the stab move maybe 4 times total) a lot of time with a PK bot trying to get the timing down.
It would make sense to me that is indeed a bug, because I could not get a consistent timing for blocking it down at all. It seemed really random whether it would block or not. I tried blocking it as a PK and as a warden. As the warden, I couldn't get any blocks to go off at all.
In any case, this game's mechanics are trash and this game is just another Ubisoft turd.
I wouldn't put too much time into practicing this as I doubt it's intended: it's way too unpolished (no animations, no indicators) to be an actual mechanic (plus it makes no sense: what are you doing, tensing your rock-hard abs to block the shanks?).
My feeling is that PK will get a nerf to her shank-bleed damage and possibly get a bit more bleed elsewhere. As it is her bleed is pretty much concentrated into this one skill, whereas the Nobushi's bleeds are spread more evenly.
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At one point I was able to easily intercept that stab combo after the first stab by hitting guard break but after I've noticed it doesn't work anymore. So I don't know, maybe it is a bug or maybe there is something the player playing PK does during that attack that prevents you from countering it. I don't really even care anymore, Peacekeeper has so many things about her that leaves you thinking "what the hell did I do wrong" and this is just one of them. Hopefully devs look into her soon.
If it helps as a Peacekeeper I can rarely land the triple stab on a player. Double sometimes. 90% of the time only a single. The timing needed is almost impossible. Doesn't even seem to be consistent, I have tried it with bots and done the same thing over and over, sometimes with 1 stab, sometimes 2, rarely 3.
LoL nerfs she allready got nerfed wtf the ability for us PKers to even use that ability is getting harder as players actually play vs the class due to you know its coming or the PK will try his/her luck to do it at some point shes nothing compaired to orochi or onabushi 2 hits from onabushi is 3 stabs from PK 3 stab combo including bleed