Counterattack

Counterattack (referred to as Action Start before the game's release) is Disc 3, Track 1 on the Xenoblade2 Original Soundtrack and Track 12 on the Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Sound Selection. It is similar in structure to Engage the Enemy from the Xenoblade Original Soundtrack, and fulfils a somewhat similar purpose as a cutscene theme. Melodies from this track are used as motifs in Loneliness and After Despair and Hope. Counterattack (Piano Arrange) is an arrangement of the track for solo piano.

The track plays in the following cutscenes:

Xenoblade Chronicles 2

 * Rex, Pyra, Nia and Dromarch fight Malos on the deck of the Ancient Ship.
 * The party uses a water tower to win the fight against Mòrag in Torigoth.
 * Mythra awakens at the Olethro Ruins.
 * Mòrag fights Rex and Mythra in Alba Cavanich before steps in.
 * Mòrag joins the fight against Patroka and Mikhail in the Abandoned Factory.
 * Jin confronts the party in Temperantia.
 * Pneuma awakens at the Cliffs of Morytha.
 * Rex and Pneuma destroy Indol's amplification towers at the World Tree.

Torna ~ The Golden Country

 * Malos and Addam verbally spar as they fight in Auresco alongside the rest of the party.
 * Malos and Mythra call upon their various artifices as the party fights Malos in 's Soaring Rostrum.

Counterattack (Super Smash Bros. remix)
Counterattack is a track in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, playing on the Gaur Plains and Cloud Sea of Alrest stages. It is a remix of Counterattack.