Regular dash/spin even though has invincibility frames its not safe nor gives you high possibility of getting out of pressure/projectiles.
That is why all smart Kabals go with ex dash as wakeup. Cause there is low risk that the dash will get interrupted by anything.
I suggest you reed the guide cause you sound like a noob that defensively needs to reed on Kabals fighting technique and game play.
Btw, havent you noticed Jax going into ex dash punch on wake up? have you wondered why is that? guess what, cause it has armor and nothing will get through it. Same goes to few other characters that has armor on ex moves.
Are you responding to me? Because if so you didn't read very well.
It seems I am getting knocked out in the first 11 frames, when I apparently should be invincible.
I forgot that Ex Dash is faster than Dash - I think that is the answer I was looking for... so on wakeup, if you do Dash, you get 11 frames of wakeup invincibility, which means in the last 7 frames you can be hit out. Where as Ex Dash armor lasts the same amount of time (or does it actually last 12 since 13 is the frame data listed for it?), but the move finishes faster than regular dash.
And no I'm not a noob, I have read most of this forum already, and Jax is actually my main along with Shang Tsung.
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