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It doesn't look like hitstun is changed. The very relevant change is that to shield stun (also shield lag for attacks with hitlag modifiers), those changes are all listed in the OP of http://smashboards.com/threads/shields-in-1-1-1.419235/.

No, the shield stun is increased by I think 3 or 4 frames, but that's still not enough to land and grab before the opponent can spot dodge.

Yes. The now universally changed shield stun makes shield breaking easier though, so it balances out a bit.

You just blew my mind with that. Also, why is this thread turning into a discussion about Luma being broken??

I assume that is meant to make the looping hitboxes link into each other better. So no huge change.

It just means you can't punish quite as many options as before simply by shielding. This means that if you want to hit your opponent, actually attacking is now better than standing in shield. Not sure how that would make the game more defensive...

Basically, attacking a shield is now safer for every character. Characters who benefit most from this change are those who have attacks that were possible but hard to punish before, those attacks should now be safe on some characters who could punish them before, and others can only get less...

Pretty much so, yeah. But now other characters have safer moves as well, so if Sheik now has a very very hard/impossible move, but other characters actually get hard/impossible to punish moves too that's probably overall a good thing for balancing.

So right now there appears to be wrong information about the duration of shield stun in Smash 4 (or how it was changed from Brawl). The oldest thread I found says shield stun was lowered a lot, but apparently the value for Brawl there is wrong (way too high)...

I like the new format! Pretty much all info necessary for deciding what to watch is there and anything else can just be looked up on the tournament websites.

Another Pika player here: QALC definitely changed, ESAM is now looking into it, so far got (quotes from his twitter): "Ok so the difference is it is more specific and also it doesnt move you like it did when u used to platform cancel. Different, still easy" "Pikachu can QAC even better on slants...

ESAM, you said on twitter you figured out the matchup against Sheik, so... how can we beat her, what do we do against her SH Fair in particular and how good do you think the matchup is overall?