I don't think I've ever been punished for it but that's largely due to people people not realising its combo punishable, not letting go off block early enough and not being jedis. At least with reptiles dash you see a dash and an (albeit small) animation on block.
I dont question your "punish" logic, you are right that its not a defined punish, i was merely saying that comparing a blocked d1 to a blocked dash is probably not the best example.
D1 cutter makes punishing it with anything worth a threat (even cage b3) harder than is worth attempting, under the heat of a match.
Yeah that's what i was trying to say , in order to interrupt d1 cutter for a full combo ( not talking about the lowpokes in this case ) you have to take into account if your character has a fast enough normal ( 12 frames or faster ) with enough range and know at what blocking range you can interrupt it ( at certain ranges your normals whiff and the tip of the cutter hits you , all of that + being ready to actually react / commit to it wich is effin Jedi if you ask me. You can also try to armor thruough it but there are hardly any fast specials with armor worth the meter and you're still not punishing d1 itself.
The last time I played josh99 he was punishing with Jax's f4. I believe 16bit had the problem with xblades' b3 with liu. And I know Rapzilla has been working on interrupting d1 cutter with dash.
Yeah I'm still working on it but getting the hang of it. Whenever I block a d1 or d3 I go for dash. You have to know its coming, or you could easily just go for the easy uppercut punish.
