I just labbed it to confirm. if you're doing leap into jump 2 a lot of characters can forward dash out of it. You can do a close leap to catch it. It's a 50/50. Leap into jump 3 also it's gonna be kinda the same 50/50 but to combo out of it it's gonna be waaayyy harder.
Vortex i do is
- Close leap 1+3 that beats everything, except backdash
- Once they start backdashing use mid leap 2. 2 must be pressed very late(super close to the ground) to catch backdashes consistantly
It is possible to hit forward dashes (even batman) by close leap j2. However it should be pressed very early, just as grodd jump arc passes its zenith. You can use this against batman who can fwd dash leap 1+3.
Of course it is possible for enemy to easily defend/fuzzy against close leap2 / mid leap 2 due to huge timing difference. Once you taught them to stand you can go back to 1+3. I want to emphasize that it is batman only thing, everybody else get pure 50/50 between leap1+3 and leap 2.
As for redhood i tested it long ago and you can condition him somehow to keep it 50/50. I dont remember how though. But it was before i found "early leap 2" thing so maybe its still 30/30/30 for him too and i was just thinking "at least its not batman" or something.
If you are talking about b2sc restand vortex it is sort of fake.
Options are this
- early j3 will beat anti airs, walking fwd and dashing fwd. Also sometimes you will get a combo and sometimes not(see below)
- early j2 will crossup
Both this options lose to crouching - j3 will be blocked and j2 will wiff
If they stop crouching/antiairing do
- j3 as grodd passes zenith is overhead and launcher
- j2 is crossup
If they dash fwd or walk fwd it doesnt work though.
I didnt test on big hotbox characters (i test on batman, sups and cw) so it may be different for them
Final notes on j3. Splat is very different depending on where it hits(front or back) and also are they crouching, mashing. Somehow doing j3 on standing, crouching, atacking , walking or forward dashing provide different hitstun.
For example when i tried b2sc early j3 against batman i found that i could combo on standing and walking forward easily, i could not combo at all on dashing forward and anti airing, but i could combo on crouching though with much more effort. Also against batman timings of j3 to beat fwd dash is too early so i could only combo off fwd dash and walk forward only due to j3 hitting back of the dummy.
Hope that clears things up.
To answer Gofrogs question : you do last leap 3 very early
