Lulu
Well-Known Member
Slow Escape was coined by @virtuaPAI back in the early days of competitive Dead or Alive. The sad thing is he had VF experience and didn't carry over the term of Stagger Escape. It was named Slow Escape because Defensive Holds were a Fast Escape out of stun. Since it was the slower method to escape a stun he called it Slow Escape.
As competition grew, and more people from other games were coming in, players came to the realization that Stagger Escape is the more accurate and universal term. An accidental benefit is that the acronym for either term is the same, and so you'll see people calling it S.E. to cover both optional terms.
Even virtuapai wishes he just called it Stagger Escape back then, but sadly too many of the community got used to the term Slow Escape before it could be changed back. So now it's just a matter of the community phasing it out and using the term Stagger Escape. Even the localizer for Team NINJA hates the term Slow Escape ha-ha.
Ya'know.... I wish I got into DoA much sooner.