| Karandrakas |
Very late response to an old post but I’m playing a Witch too and the immediate thought I had was “why are you trying to counterspell when you have the sleep hex?”
You stated you had both the sleep spell and the sleep hex but the spell would not go off in time despite having all of your turn, because the spell was a full round action. The hex is only a standard action. It doesn’t matter that the hex won’t counterspell because all you need to do is stop the enemy spell and you can do so by stopping them from casting it before they finish.
Your other party members could try to force a concentration check by dealing damage but all you need to do is make the fey fall asleep before they finish the spell and by default they are not concentrating on it and it’s lost. There’s a chance they pass the will save, but it’s a solid tactic.