Board Thread:Jobs Board/@comment-49.146.192.48-20131231074513/@comment-3250527-20140223074222

121.97.111.162 wrote: Higher level «Skills» are known to be unstoppable but is still possible to cancel but only rarely. Higher-level «Sword Skills» can cancel out respective level Sword Skills, as long as the main trajectory is not canceled (as with the case in Mother's Rosario, Asuna's «Neutron» Original Sword Skill was only able to block the first 5 hits of Yuuki's «Mother's Rosario»). In the case of the Light Novel, Kirito states through narration that Kuradeel's «Avalanche» would overpower his own «Sonic Leap», since Avalanche is a higher-level Skill, if the two skills were to hit head-on (but Kirito rather utilized the Original Sword Skill «Arms Blast».

121.97.111.162 wrote: If by object or environment, dodging or deflecting the attack and allowing the player to hit an obstacle can cancel the «Skill» if for example they activated a «Skill» that also required the movement of the legs and hits a stump or was a step further off a ledge of a cliff.

Only if the said environment is within the attack range of the said Skill. Will probably only work with Charge-based Skills, since there isn't an "advance" type Skill. Otherwise, the range of a point-blank Sword Skill (most of them) would not interact with environment at all.

121.97.111.162 wrote: ...for example, [if] a «Skill» was deflected, pushed back and was cancelled, leaving the sword in a raised position, but this also allows a possibility to activate another «Skill» due to the raised position to continue another barrage of attacks.

And that is the core principle of the Outside System Skill «Skill Connect» (First appearance Caliber). However, this only applies if the user is fully aware that his skill would be deflected into that trajectory.