Requirements: Combat 3
In Single Combat (see below), you gain +1 Melee Defense. Whenever both of you would normally attack simultaneously, you attack first instead.
Single Combat is defined as in Melee (not during charges) when there are no other characters within Reach (regardless if friend or foe, unengaged, or dazed), and you neither haven been nor expect to be subject to missile fire or other disturbances this combat turn.