Significant neutral game information has been discovered

[StingArt]

Roughly half the cast can shield and enter the turn-around sliding animation at frame 12 after an initial dash. The other half of the cast is limited to waiting until frame 15 if they want to perform a grounded movement option after an initial dash.

Check out these tweets for more specific info such as images and how to input certain moves on frame 12, 13 and 14 the otherwise 'dead zone' frames.

https://twitter.com/qr99st/status/1070371998554091521

 

[Octorockandroll]

Interesting. Looks like we won't know for sure how good this really is until we experiment with the game more but at worst it seems like it'll definitely be a good mixup tool.