Safi doing his ult with no rocks

[Thug Killadome]

Is there a real reasoning behind this? I've seen posts say its DPS check, but I've been in groups where our damage was abysmal and he never did his nuke without rocks on the field first. Conversely, I had a group that slapped him around pretty hard for the whole match only for him to nuke (with cover), do his little exhaust animation, then nuke shortly after with no rocks, even if someone took aggro.

[Ember]

It can happen if you flinch him while he is doing one of the attacks that drops them. Happened to me multiple times during my P1 runs.

[Heatnixx]

If you flinch or otherwise interrupt Safi during the rock dropping move, it still counts as completed and so he will cast his ultimate next regardless. Save your Farcaster.

[Thug Killadome]

Originally posted by BlitzØ:

If you flinch or otherwise interrupt Safi during the rock dropping move, it still counts as completed and so he will cast his ultimate next regardless. Save your Farcaster.

That would explain it. Absolutely ridiculous that they'd let something like that slide, you'd think the check for the move being completed would come yknow...after the move is done? And if he hasn't completed it, he'll do it again and won't nova till rocks are on the field? Feels awful to get a party wipe because of this.

[Heatnixx]

Originally posted by The Tanjiro Button:

Originally posted by BlitzØ:

If you flinch or otherwise interrupt Safi during the rock dropping move, it still counts as completed and so he will cast his ultimate next regardless. Save your Farcaster.

That would explain it. Absolutely ridiculous that they'd let something like that slide, you'd think the check for the move being completed would come yknow...after the move is done? And if he hasn't completed it, he'll do it again and won't nova till rocks are on the field? Feels awful to get a party wipe because of this.

Not that surprising honestly, Safi'Jiiva is just Behemoth with extra steps, like they couldn't legally port Behemoth to MR so they made Safi instead. And Behemoth can back to back Ecliptic Meteor you if you kill him too fast lmao.
MH dev team really took a liking to DPS checks and OHKO moves, which makes me a bit worried for the next gen game.

[DoEFotGS]

Originally posted by The Tanjiro Button:

Absolutely ridiculous that they'd let something like that slide, you'd think the check for the move being completed would come yknow...after the move is done? And if he hasn't completed it, he'll do it again and won't nova till rocks are on the field? Feels awful to get a party wipe because of this.

That happens only when Safi has low HP.

Usualy Safi drop rocks by perform laser breath to the ceiling and this move can't be interrupted by any source - you can overcap her status bars while she do this move and gunners use this for start of CC-chain later without worring of status decay.

But on low HP this move no longer exist. She drop some rocks by stomp-explode move instead. And this can be interrupted.

I saw several times that ultimate with no rocks happens with other conditions that nobody can explain, but I personally don't faced that situations at all.