DoA has a lot of strings, but not all attacks are strings.
In SSF4, if I use Deejay and do cr.lp>cr.mp it was a 2 frame link, IIRC.
In DoA, if an attack is +15 on hit and you want to follow it up with a move that has a 13 frame start up, it will still be a 2 frame link, wont it?
Even though DoA...