Opponent attacking in wrong direction after Eileen's 236P+KP

This past Sunday, I was in the down position, in which my opponent Tricky Eileen ran torward me.

- I chose to do a rising low sweep and Tricky Eileen chose to do
- Eileen avoided my low sweep and jumped over to the other side of me. This led to boths us facing away from each other.
- I chose input, aiming to launch Eileen with a Back Turn K command.That did not happen, instead I did the regular standing ....not the while standing mid strike, but the already standing high strike.


The next day, I was messing around in training mode and found that it is quite easily replicable:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1935398285?t=0h18m1s ( I will get a YT version added after make some edits here and there, I think)

Going to spend some more time to do frame analysis to try to pinpoint the timing of inputs.

 

A1 & B1 - Eileen avoids Pai low sweep from rising with 236P+KP. Top frame counter is relative to Pai's sweep animation. Frame 35 is when the sweep executes (1st active frame).

A2 & B2 - Pai input K at the same exact time (see in-game input display), relative to her low sweep. Low Sweep from rising completes the animation at frame 61. So in both panels, the K input is done after recovery animation is completed.

A3 & B3 - In the A Panel, Pai executes Back Turned K. In the B Panel, Pai executes the regular K attack. Altogether, the panels combined suggests which attack is executed is not determined by the timing of input with Pai's low rising kick or being in a back turned state.

Looking back at A1 & B1 images, 236P+KP avoided Pai's sweep at different times. In the A panel, Eileen was further along in completing the attack animation compared to Eileen in the B panel.

Hypothesis - Since Eileen started the attack "in front" of Pai, the game might register Eileen as being in front of Pai, when K was inputted in B2 panel. In A2 panel, Eileen is possibly finished or near finished recovering from the animation so game recognizes Pai as being back-turned.

 

As of right now, I am just determing the total frames of Eileen's move to look back at more examples of the timing to when Pai does or BT .

While block and movement are interesting to see what happens (I might just do a quick test) I should and want to get back on track on working on some other stuffs first!