Staggers and Stagger Recovery - Comprehensive Look (WIP)

Thank you so much for the response. I am more than happy to keep asking questions!

I do think providing sample inputs would be very valuable to this post, as it may fill in some gaps that people are missing from reading through the explanations.

I have a couple of examples here that I have questions about.

1)
(held before stagger recovery inputs count)






Is this 5 recover inputs?

2)
(held before stagger recovery inputs count)






Is this 7 recovery inputs?

3)












Is this 7 recovery inputs or 5?

4)




Is this 1 or 2 recovery inputs?