My team and I practice using ranked duels when we are not together. However, its impossible to play any longer. Im not sure why the development team for For Honor is so bad at balancing. But besides the OBVIOUS exploits like glads toe stab you still havent corrected in a year, and law bringers defensive and practically impenetrable move set….

there is a GLARING ISSUE. One in which you need to fix badly:

HIDDEN STANCE IS BROKEN:
So here is what happens. Nobushi attacks with two lights, or heavy into light combo. Then IMMEDIATELY pops into hidden stance. Now, you as the opponent, naturally block or parry ANY of those attacks. Which against any other hero, for the most part, forces a reset of stances and a moment of strategy with a counter attack sometimes by the person blocking.
When you counter attack after the successful parry or counter, it should hit. INSTEAD, the nobush simply goes into hidden stance, and during that animation, SHE IS INVINSIBLE. NO MOVES, NONE, NOT EVEN A LATERAL CHARGE FROM A RAIDER 2 ON 1 will hit her. He goes THROUGH HER.

AND the attack coming OUT of hidden stance is faster than normal, and because you, as the counter attacker, are in a recovery animation from the counter attack that JUST WENT THROUGH HER BODY, literally... you get hit with a light or double light bleed. FOR FREE.
Its worth a third of your life as her opponent.

I play Aramusha, and I use full block. When I full block into counter, the opponent hits hidden stance, and my counter goes THROUGH her, and she counters immediately before my attack animation is finished, and takes one third of my health. EVERY time.

It doesnt have to be all block. It can be also from normal block or parry. AND IT IS BS. You devs know better than to still have these kinds of exploits in your game. FIX IT.

This needs to be fixed. Duel mode was more accessible and more fun A YEAR ago....

Im sorry to be so ciritical, but Ive been here since closed beta.... and this has got to change. Rehire the management doing balance, maybe do some micromanaging of that set of personnel to make sure they are paying attention to things properly... but there shouldn't be this many exploits in a fighting game with this small of a hero list.

Please fix this issue and make her use her kit properly.

My team intends to sit down, and do an entire video showing the various prolific and horrible exploits in your game, and then slow them down and walk players through how to do them.
We have been talking on your forums for a very long time now about exploits and balance issues with specific heroes; and its begun to feel like the only way to make the point is to show it to everyone, so not just a few people can exploit the rest of the player base; we can watch everyone play the same 6 heroes then; with exploits, and be on even ground.
Maybe if everyone is exploiting, and only 6 heroes out of the many you have created are getting any real play time; then maybe the devs will listen. Not sure what else to do. Because they stopped talking to us about these exploits and stopped fixing them.

Video will probably take a week to edit and put together. At least then we can do your work for you, and show you what we are talking about. At this point I think the players should be getting paid by Ubisoft for having to constantly show you guys whats wrong, and having to constantly post about it. Do your job and fix your game. Its getting old watching this stuff take place with no repercussions against those using it, and no fixes for months and months at a time.