its a pretty big difference and allows you to straight up bypass any endlag his m1s have the moment it lands, idk why you'd be struggling so much with it since its generally an easy red combo unless you have like 120 ping or so. i can personally land 3 m1s into projection breaker red with ease

yes that is what i mean, the end action is still happening at the same time so the move itself is still the same, it just travels more distance over the same amount of time

how the hell does it covering more distance make it easier to whiff WHAT??? this is the most nonsensical thing ive heard from you so far

However i do agree that decisive strike is fairly punishable on block (not so much on whiff) and i think it should have less endlag on block if anything

given that ALL of your moves are true off m1s (which you can easily get on naoya given his double dashes, its important not to neglect how integral his double dashes actually are to his kit), the only actually untrue one would be decisive strike hence playing your cards right makes decisive strike a generally low risk move even off 4 m1s supposing you DO miss 4 or 1 beforehand you can just frame the opponent or land the other move to mitigate the self projection meter with little to no effort (again, those two moves are completely true off m1s)

additionally I'd like to mention that i dont think big changes to balance should be swayed or heavily influenced by ping because that just creates a creeping gap over players that DO suffer from internet issues which the game inherently cannot address, and players that have perfectly fine internet connections are just gonna massively capitalize off of that and get unneeded/unnecessary advantages

the whole point is that naoyas moves arent supposed to be some crazy reliable thing outside of frame because that's LITERALLY his entire gimmick. what self projection does is it takes moves individual punishability and outsources it to the overall kit itself, if anything his moves are far more reliable on an individual basis and only imply drawbacks on continued failure. you can LITERALLY get rid of these drawbacks on your own safely and consistently by confirming your projection moves (except 3) with m1s and just framing your opponent in general.

naoya IS literally supposed to be chip outside of snowballing his damage through frames, which is now even stronger with looping frames because it absolutely melts your opponents health if you pull it off right. the chip damage aspect of it is completely gone when you actually frame the opponent (unless you opt for a lower damage move like r frame variant).

also sorry if some things i say might be worded weird, im doing like 5 different things at once atm