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User blog comment:SupremeAssassin/Assassin's Creed 3: Combat System/@comment-139.195.17.107-20120530020202/@comment-5088097-20120530020402
It's definately theoretically possible considering Ezio could counter with a crossbow then so too could Connor counter with a bow and arrow, er, in this case; with an arrow.