No other game punishes the attacker for making the right choice in punishing the opponents mistake. In DOA4 you can hit them if they did something unsafe, go into the 2nd or 3rd hit and do like 10% by then, but if they hold your 3rd hit you lose like 30% hp.
So basically on hit, the person is guessing a 33%(high/mid/low) chance to counter for more dmg after making the mistake. The attack is guessing to avoid that 33% chance counter with more guessing of high/mid/low. In DOA4 the defender was almost always in advantage after making a mistake compared to the attacker. Now add that most strings were unsafe on block and the only thing you could do was delay your string to further guessing.
also the low hold ducks high attacks. So in reality it was closer to 50/50.
Every other competitve fighter doesn't do this. If the opponent makes a mistake, and you punish, you are always in advantage because they are taking the dmg no matter what (except combo breaker but then they are using up a resource for making that mistake).
I follow enough on DOA5 to know that what hampered the whole series from being a good competitive game are still presented in the game (though its been alleviated to an extent).
