Whenever DJ throws out one of those 'Baby!' kicks by itself? ...he gets countered or hit afterwards. Since he has other kicks with similar range yet far less chance of a counter hit, I'm at a loss as to why people keep doing it like that. It's a decent combo finisher, but it's terrible by itself, from all that I've seen.
It used to be more safe, and it still is cool to abuse at the correct range or using it out of a drive rush to counter hit people trying to check it You can buffer lvl 3 behind it and it’s always a knockdown which is great for setting up DJ’s oki game and getting people pushed to the corner
It's safe most of the time, the spacing makes deejay want to do stuff after it and there's not much better option, standing HK is an alternative, but it's more unsafe and better as a whiff punish than a, poke