no hyper armor and doesn't stun plus too long wind up. literalky countered by walking away cause the ashes range is shit. lions claw /giant hunt / sword dance / lightning ram better
but it has no range and such a long windup you'd have to be dumb to get hit by it. placidusax's ruin is insta cast with a hitbox when you cast it. lightning ram literally stunlocks. lions claw does 1400 damage.
also: of you get hit by anything during the more than a second long windup you just fall. so over-aggresive melee users hard counter it. and if they are playing passive then they will see it coming and move literally 1 foot away from you because thats how far the range is on it
damn you realise attack animations make you move faster than running speed? also literally never been hit by malenias ash in pvp and it literally gets poised through in pvp vs any boss after melania.
ok so basically: people with skill are like level 125-150. thats dueling meta and people above that are literally so overlevelled they facetank everything and forget dodging exists
damn I literally offer like 8 solutions to waterfowl dance, a slow and easily counterable ash of war with 0 hyper armor and u telling me to cope? ita literally as bad as her remembrance incantation