There’s advantages to having the certainty of a forced block for certain characters as well- for example, mutant can recharge slop by using a multi-hit attack like corkscrew on a blocking opponent

Free cancelling gives you the _option_ to cancel your attack into another action when your opponent next becomes actionable, but you can choose to Hold instead, allowing the attack to finish its animation and potentially connect if it's not blocked or otherwise countered.

This is exactly how a Cowboy beat me. I was flabbergasted. XD

@@TheYellowSignal there's also a situation where they can actually grab u even if u free cancel and the best counter for that is jumping when your in the air they can't grab you you can only grab someone if both of you are either in air or on the ground, when i try and impale my opponent i free cancel jump on the next part cause they are likely to grab me and then hit them while im in the air.

That's good to know, thanks for sharing.

@Somnia- @KarkVant believe a simpler way to describe it is that free cancel gives you an action when the opponent gets their next action. If they commit to a move that means they don't get an action before their hit lands therefore you don't get your free cancel. Basically free cancel makes your move safer if the opponent dodges or will be able to interrupt their action before the attack lands. Free cancel will not, however, protect you from an opponent committing to a move which counters yours.

Basically, most options you lose to you will still lose when they pick it and you free cancelled

Broadly speaking, a 50/50 is a situation where there are essentially 2 real options. In this video's example, free canceling an attack that will hit in 2 frames means the opponent has to decide if you're going to continue the attack or not. 2 frames isn't enough time to do anything besides block, so the decision boils down to the 50/50 of whether or not the attacker will commit to the attack. It's basically assuming that there is a 50% chance that the attack will continue and must be blocked, or a 50% chance that the attacker will cancel into some other option.

@@YomiLearn Thats a great explaination

As YOMI Learn said, you give your opponent two options. There are also Rock Paper Scissors or "Tech-chase" scenarios which usually have to do with getup animations after being knocked down, and function pretty much the same, however with three options, and usually one player defending. The importance behind these situations is conditioning. You can default to the safest option the first one or two times, conditioning your opponent into expecting a certain move. At the point you think this is the case, you'll want to switch your approach to an option that counters their new approach, or even do nothing instead and make them block, giving you a frame advantage. This is the art we call "An Epic Mixup"

I often dodge when there is 50/50 chance but the attacker has a better chance of hitting example of this is when im doing a downward cleave and i free cancel lets just say the other player tries to block what i will do is press the same attack which cancels the first and does another move and the other player cant parry it since the attacker delayed his attack a bit

Lol, thanks for letting me know.

modded example is moonwalker hat trick (the 1 frame hitbox is the opposite side of where you throw hats, and it's finicky at best for neutral

@@deletionist5848 well if we're talking mods, anything could be true

Unless they’re frame disadvantage is so great, that it essentially comes out in 2. On a side note, a 2-frame jab would be terrifying. 😨

Thanks!!

Interesting.

Ah so that is where all of my meter went that one gane