Romeo vs Tybalt

Does anyone have any tips or suggestions for it. I'm doing it on hard mode and I just can't seem to get past it. All I'm doing is sitting in counter the whole time and hoping he'll hit me or wm me so his hp drops. Is there a way to encourage him to wm me, so as to drop his hp some more? I don't go after him myself because it seems the game isn't designed for you do go chase him because it's very hard for you to know if he's in counter or not, or just has smash charged and isn't going after you yet. You also don't know when he cancels a move, so you don't know if he's dropped things. I don't use wm because it's silly to lose your hp for something that does hardly any damage. I've been ranking up combat mastery as it becomes available.

Any suggestions or recommendations on how to get him to attack you and not dance around you and the like?

I smashed him toward a wall at the outset, then smashmilled him to death. Literally did not get hit. Was on Adv though.

yeah Dom's tactic works. I did that on hard as well, and that was practically my same strategy XD

No Dom's tactic doesn't work... at least not for me, and I can't see how it possibly could work. Tybalt recovers from either skill faster than the next can load... In the time it takes Smash or Rank F Windmill to load up, Tybalt has either attacked back or is running around like a headless chicken again. This fight is just beyond stupid. I don't know what Nexon were thinking... ;_;

To clarify, if you're fast enough to get the first Smash off before Tybalt aggros, there should be enough wiggle room in his AI for you to immediately smash him AGAIN, which is where the smashmill starts. at least that's how I did it.

i can definitely understand not having time to smash and then windmill.

I was able to beat him on my 21st try... by just spamming Counter over and over again. Wasn't anything else I could do, and I'd failed Counter-spamming several times before because the skill just refused to load. Had similar trouble in the next mission with the skeletons and the nurse too... Skills wouldn't load. My lag this weekend is absolutely horrific.