Why Clairen has an hitbox on her head while DOWN tilting?#907

If you look at the down tilt of Clairen you see a big hitbox on her head. And this is particularly annoying, because if you short hop above her down tilt a lot of times you still get hit by her head.

I mean what is supposed to be the counterplay if short hopping doesn’t work?
I don’t see the point of this hitbox except making sure the Clairen is safe while doing down tilt.

In melee if Marth down tilt a lot, the counterplay as Fox is to SH Dair. In this game if I try this as Orcane I trade with Clairen’s head at least 50% of the time.

My point is, please just remove this hitbox. It doesn’t serve any logical purpose and the move would still be good without it, it would just require a little more thinking than just spamming it.

I also believe there is still tons of other problems with Clairen, but I know it’s pointless to ask for more nerfs on Clairen.

“she needs it”
in all honesty almost every move in her kit has hitbox privilege for no reason.

Of course. And I also wonder why she has so much moves that can kills. Most characters have few kill moves but with Clairen almost every move can kill.
And if you hold in hoping to not die, maybe it won’t tipper and she will be able to combo into another kill move. I never feel like I have a clear counterplay against any of Clairen’s move.

i didn’t realize there was a hitbox there and have tried to short hop over her dtilt > fair her on absa so many times and i always lose the interaction and couldnt figure out what i was doing wrong. That is crazy…