A Mai cancelled my Drive Impact with 3 light punches

[rod]

Is this possible?

[hugocarvalho90]

yes... 3 hits break the armor of DI

[Peddie]

That's perfectly possible, most characters have fast enough jabs that if the first jab was already coming out when you pressed DI that it can connect three times before the start-up of your DI is complete. And ultimately DI only has armour for two hits, so any set of three hits will ruin your DI attempt, like for example Chun-Li's famous QCF K

[rod]

Originally posted by hugocarvalho90:

yes... 3 hits break the armor of DI

Originally posted by Peddie:

That's perfectly possible, most characters have fast enough jabs that if the first jab was already coming out when you pressed DI that it can connect three times before the start-up of your DI is complete. And ultimately DI only has armour for two hits, so any set of three hits will ruin your DI attempt, like for example Chun-Li's famous QCF K

I see. That's... a thing that exists, I guess

Thank you for the replies!

[Peddie]

I mean let's be grateful that it is a thing, there are plenty of topics lamenting DI being supposedly too powerful as is.

Some characters also have other tools against it, like Marisa's fully charged Gladius special just ignores armour, and as such, will punch straight through DIs.

[Fourth Horseman]

"Mai isn't broken guys. Nothing to see here. It isn't the character, it's you. Work on yourself, scrub. You're trash!"

[Lysamus]

Mai isn't unique in being able to jab through a DI.

[Fourth Horseman]

Originally posted by Lysamus:

Mai isn't unique in being able to jab through a DI.

And that suddenly makes it acceptable?
Ken isn't the only overpowered piece of ♥♥♥♥ in the game either. Don't see that as an extenuating circumstance that excuses his current iteration in such a case.

[Lysamus]

Originally posted by Fourth Horseman:

Originally posted by Lysamus:

Mai isn't unique in being able to jab through a DI.

And that suddenly makes it acceptable?

I think it's fine. Those characters whose jab isn't fast enough to jab through DI can just counter DI after the first jab and win that way. Or neutral jump. Or throw.

It's too early to say if Mai is over/under tuned, and the ability to jab through DI is a pretty poor indicator in any case.

[Danny DeVito with a Gun]

Originally posted by Fourth Horseman:

"Mai isn't broken guys. Nothing to see here. It isn't the character, it's you. Work on yourself, scrub. You're trash!"

Literally everyone can triple jab to break DI

[Legendary Mr. Tiddles]

Originally posted by Danny DeVito with a Gun:

Originally posted by Fourth Horseman:

"Mai isn't broken guys. Nothing to see here. It isn't the character, it's you. Work on yourself, scrub. You're trash!"

Literally everyone can triple jab to break DI

As a jabber jobber, I know this to be true.

[Peddie]

The jesters won't make these statements less true.

[yui8]

Yeah, it's typical crapcom b.s. that has been around for decades. Example: Gouki can stop your super move/s with a LP in Zero series! 🤦🏻‍♀️

And the way people spam LP in this game is so FREAKING ANNOYING it gets my blood boiling❗ Sometimes I wonder if they're using bot scripts!?

[Wormerine]

As others said. DI isn't invincible - it has two points of armor - so any attack sequence that does 3 attacks or more will counter DI if timed approprietly (two attacks to break armor, third attack to hit). Even some target combos are quick enough to break DI if timing is right (I remember Lukes LP-MP-HP to work), and some characters have multihit attacks that are really efficient in chewing through armor (Jamie's HP, Chun-Li's lighting kicks).

In general you don't want to raw DI to begin with - that gives enemy too many options to respond even if they are in burnout.

[hugocarvalho90]

Originally posted by Fourth Horseman:

"Mai isn't broken guys. Nothing to see here. It isn't the character, it's you. Work on yourself, scrub. You're trash!"

dude, the guy was asking if this was a thing in the game, probably a new player, calm down, even some casual people who play for more time dont know that, he did not was mean in his comment. dont interpret text as you imagine.

[Everchosen]

Originally posted by Eclisis:

I have people drive impact my jab, can't even get three hits in

THEY ARE CALLED CHEATERS

Is this even possible?

I'd have to lab it, but I use jabs to bait DI for counter DI and it is stupidly effective.

I've only run into two scripters and the DI only came out on moves I couldn't recover/cancel out of in time to counter di.