wasnt going to post this till i fully tested against all chars but since i was talking about it on the OBS show last night might as well post my findings so far with using it and see how you guys find using it...
Zoidberg747 i have a feeling you'll like this addition to slices mindgames
ive been well know to suggest to other barakas not to go crazy with just straight back to back d1/d3~slices because of the gap to snuff the slices and to try mix up baraka poke mindgames more but it has also been very correctly brought up to me that if a player is not taking there chance to snuff slices and is more worried about trying to beat your next poke that this should be abused,so it isnt the worst idea to check the player early to see what he does with back to back d1/d3~slices.
when your opp finds out he can snuff the slices is were this "tech" comes into play.
ALL of this is taking into account that the d1/d3 was
blocked because as we know with d1/d3 cancel on hit into slices cant be snuffed as its cancel adv is +14/+12
(but on hit we still must deal with the clever few who use small hitbox chars and know the MU enough to just take his pokes ducking so there in crouch animation for the start of slices to whiff. knowing they cannot do this if the poke hit them standing)
in the corner while at max range or JUST under max range of d1/d3 (both of which travel same horizontal distance) if you cancel d1/d3 into ex slices and your opp tried to d3/d1 out fearing pressure of slices there poke will whiff and ex slices will launch leading to a combo,if opp jumps the same will happen,just under max range is the sweet spot but max range works also.
if your opponents blocks this all you've done chip and got just under 1/3 bar meter and left a 0,so its low risk,at cost of meter of course
this only works against certain chars,kitana for example this should never work on as her d1 will still beat slices and another option for her is if she decides to stay blocking she can netural duck the 1st hit of slices because of the pushback and snuff the rest of the move,this option also goes for jax,mileena,lao,quan.sektor must still hold bock though because his crazy neutral crouching hitbox.
theres a few other pokes that will still fuck this up, cyraxs d3 is a example.
(good way to test the counter pokes that whiff is get dummy to block a get him to block your max range d1/d3 then turn him to human)
vs the non lowhitbox chars these work best
sorry for the wall of text there for such a simple thing there guys,video would of been well handier to explain things with
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i know d1/d3 to backdash can work fine for some baraka's whiff punishing setups but i just thought this was a small interesting thing about ex slices.situational but interesting non the less