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>It's underutilized, but it's sorta ok that it's like that because James would find it hard to resist out of grief and pity.
>Heather would struggle merely because she's weak and pathetic (which pisses her off).

it's refined and better understood in SH3, because you hold ready and then block. In Sh2 you have to hit x to block when out of combat which is very unintuitive.