I think the term house are looking for is "tech roll".

Kind of. I can’t remember what they’re calling it, but it can only be done while you’re being juggled. Hold down + block. It costs you both bars of defensive meter. Breakers as they existed in MK9/X are pretty much gone.

The breaker seems to suck and the wakeup attack gets punished to all hell. Hopefully the tutorial will help me see something I missed when the game launches like flawless blocking, Air meter "breaker" and better wake up options on launch date.

Answer to you : The combos are really short in this game and are from short juggling (gravity in this game is much heavier than mk9) so they just have the air invulernability and the flawless block from the ground (take less chip damage, works like a parry kinda?) not really sure how to explain it.