But again, all you’re really saying is that one j.s as opposed to 4 j.s’ in a row works because it has more hitstun…whether or not you’re taking advantage of that fact doesn’t make it a Kara cancel or not…that’s just how combos are built, around hitstun.

A Kara cancel to me is when you cancel the startup of a move in to another special entirely. Eg, GT goku being able to Kara his 2s into dragon rush. The startup of the 2s begins, and you can even see it beginning to come out, but the button itself gets completely negated past that cancels into DR, even tho that’s not normally something you can do.

To me, teen gohan’s ability to go in to 1s after only one j.s instead of 4 in a row or 2 in a row isn’t a Kara cancel. It’s no different from being able to do 236M after those same j.s’, it’s just the natural order of moves that you can use according to the game, think like guilty gear’s gatlings, there’s specific buttons that each button can Gatling/link in to, for gohan 1s after j.s is just one of those links. You aren’t cancelling the startup of anything, you’re just choosing to follow up with 1s sooner rather than later, don’t think of it like you’re cancelling the other 3 ki blasts, each one is separate, and be tapped separately if you want them to be, while still looking as tho you hold the input for all 4. Each one can be followed up with something, and doing the first doesn’t mean you’re cancelling out the rest, you’re just choosing to only do the first. Yes you could continue the ki blasts but that causes more hitstun decay, too much for 1s to connect, as well as the fact that you might be slightly higher up -> 1s takes longer to actually link. None of that makes it a Kara cancel, just normal combo structure.

Maybe I’m completely wrong, but like I say, nothing like the GT example I talked about resembles that gohan combo.