Free Step Dodge

Fantastic 3D Fighting Games.

You ain't trying to throw these hands in VF tho

Our didn't mention backdashes are punishable with 3K by forcing a stun situation in VF. You didn't bring up ECD and the meta behind that, You didn't bring up how you can evade mid wake up kicks. Taka has only hands, so, you can actually evade half circle. Oh, and you didn't bring stances from what I've seen

Ah this one is easy because I haven't played VF5! I think I missing out! T_T

The video isn't bad in the main point. Just will create false pretenses about VF. Like you basically suggested evasion can also be done with offensive moves which is misguided. You can't evade attacks with it. It's just to force bad oki situations for your opponent be it wall or R.O. & vice-versa.

Actually, I remembered that mid WUK's could be evaded to one side but couldn't seem to replicate it consistently. I admit that I didn't get into offensive moves too much because I didn't want to get into a 5-10+ minute discussion of VF's oki & corner game in a fairly quick video. And yes, 3K's are good for punishing backdashes.

DoA fundamentally is so different from the other 3D games that DoA kind of gives free neutral mix up and defensively has a lot of option. If the stun didn't exist, the DoA characters alone with mix up is lacking, it'd be predicte and non threatening. Punishes not being strikes are eh