On that visual cues topic, I tried relating it to opponent's health bar flashing, kung lao's ankle sliding out and back into place, watching his belt buckle or his hair move and stop, the position of pints of blood the moment you need to press 4... all during the hat spin part in order to link that 44 afterwards. I even went so far as to practicing that link with a metronome (seriously), even though I figured out the correct bpm, you only have a 15th of a second to time it right and that kind of slips are just not registered by an average human being's sense of rhythm. Therefore I accepted that there's just no getting this link to work at a reliable rate. If you can, I honestly think you must be gifted or something.
Now I pretend that it doesn't even exist. Problem solved
Still puzzled as heck as to how come tempest's accepted bnb's involve that link though.