After testing out the walk around tech...its not as good as I thought. Hear me out on this.
1. It only works if someone holds really late.
2. If you wait to long you miss your change to continue the stun. Even worse you may lose the frame advantage you had. With correct timing you maybe able to at least keep pressure by attacking before the stun has expired.
3. I loved the idea of using 8p from the walk around BUT if they low hold at the time that you were expecting the hold then you are -16~20+.
the 6H+K into walk around is not bad. Just not as strong as I thought it was. I thought you could get a back turn combo no matter at what speed they held.
I like the 6P+K walk around more because if they just do nothing they at can't come out of the stun hitting buttons. The 6P+K stun is in the same boat as 6H+K as far as ways around it. Doing a stun (usually a lift stun) and walking around waiting for a hold is nothing new =(. Its been done since DOA2 at least. It was a bit easier then though. A stun into walk around is something every character can do if they are waiting for a hold.
I'm not saying this is not useful at all BUT it requires conditioning to be effective. Like if you do a lift stun and they are expecting H+K. Most people pause for a bit then hold. Its useful there but just not as a go to thing to do.
I found a lot of these points as well, and the prime point is indeed conditioning, however it is a way to do so and i see it more as an option select than a guaranteed setup.
The lift stun is indeed just a hold bait situation, however is the same meta as DOA2 (DOA++ really, since that's where stuns where introduced) onwards with a chance of a huge payout in case the opponent messes up, the fact holds last 30 now frames aids to that.
However with 6P+K and 6H+K is a different story, in the chance the opponent didn't press anything, it opens up his ground game, whether it is with a forcetech or pressure after they tech up, it becomes a very moldeable situation, which is what i like the most about the setup.
In retrospective, the setup should only be like a pocket thing, something that's always on the mind of the JL player yet he doesn't go for it everytime, but that's just the way i see it. I don't know how others might feel about it.