User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 25-03-'13 — Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag gameplay trailer/@comment-257535-20130329222849/@comment-3046679-20130330092024

Because the wolves are glitched to hell. You have literally less than a second of reaction time window, and 90% of the time the game registers that you didn't push the button.

It's better to just hide in a stack of branches and have them come to you, pop out and kill them.