Riposte skill

Skill 'riposte'.

• Group: 'defensive'.
• This is a passive skill, it works automatically.

Riposte is a passive skill of the fencer that takes the place of counter: what was practiced in counter passes to riposte the moment the path is chosen. After a successful parry with the fencer's sword (but not after a critical one), the point may come straight back at the attacker in a free thrust, a plain blow of the sword. The chance depends on how well riposte is learned, and luck counts. The fencer cannot answer every blow.