Hello everyone!
I was just wondering, I have a pretty good combat system going right now it’s a punching system and I’ve been wracking ym brain all day how to get a hit based reaction system.
I found some directional reaction tutorials on YT but they only show with weapons that come from different sides, and all my punches come from front.
I think physical animations are what you’ll want to look into
Yeah, I’ve tried looking into it but I don’t want my characters to look goofy 
I have a system setup to react to 3 different kids of attacks, and it is actually working really well, instead of heavy attacks and such it’s just left, right and front attack, works well for now.
Thanks for the input, I’ll prolly look more into later and see if maybe I can work it in to make it better!