My issue is not that I can't build meter, but this is the only projectile in the game to behave like this against Cheetah's Blood Lunge. Dr. Fate's Amon Ra blast hits mid when it travels full screen and you can actually low profile it with the Blood Lunge crouching animation if you are full screen. But then we have Darkseid Omega Beams, which are High, actually hit you unless you prepare the Blood Lunge exactly were I did in the first second of the video.
Darkseid's Omega beam hitbox is so dumb, yeah it looks cool, but it makes no sense for it to hit at different levels at so many different points during it's trajectory.
I get the beam is almost unjumpable but it has weird interactions with special moves, like it follows the hit box just because it's in a special animation.