[MothEnthusiast]

Except that 'playing these counters' really isn't a great option for a lot of these skills. There is no 'not using them in melee range' for a lot of these skills, and often times going behind someone to avoid dying to your own attack is a full action, bringing you down in action economy to not have to deal with someone getting literally up to 6-8 FREE 50% damage strikes. (While you're using a skill that does average damage because all of these examples are using normal damage calculations and just splitting the damage between those hits. Meanwhile, 300-400% damage coming back at you, albeit hitting against your defenses 6-8 times. Still a lot.)

Riposte is no investment on the user's end. It's just 'stand there, deal damage'. And it's a high % chance of activating, to boot. Nobody that runs riposte doesn't have skill, because of the skill tax. Sure there's 'counterplay', but the way of actually achieving this counterplay is far too demanding and it often means you're better off never using those skills against certain opponents.

Not to mention, even in the case of not using multi-hits, my point still stands if you think about it. Assuming we're equal in stats, if I don't waste a lot of momentum (or have one of the few easier ways to get behind you), you're getting 50% damage off on me for every hit I deal in melee. It's pretty strong.