The conclusion was simple, almost disappointingly so, once everything settled into place within my head.
The hitbox, the blue outline, was the medium through which damage was delivered, but damage itself only ever came into existence the moment it met the hurtbox.
Until that precise overlap occurred, nothing truly happened. Hitbox striking hitbox did next to nothing, a meaningless collision, negligible enough to be dismissed entirely.
I assumed the same held true for hurtbox against hurtbox, though there was no practical way to verify it, at least not without variables I wasn't willing to introduce.
That, in essence, was the skill.
Not an offensive technique by nature, not a weapon, but information.
Pure, brutal clarity disguised as perception.
And yet, indirectly, it leaned toward offense so heavily it almost mocked the distinction.
