Not even a PhD in Physics is enough to understand what's up with the Impaler's Falters
267EDIT: the falter is actually caused by the shield throw recall, not by the impaler
I'd love to know the intricacy of the Impaler's quantum mechanics, in that with the same setup an empowered shot can turn out to be a falter on a superheavy, or not at all.
Here you'll see me waiting an instant after the first parry to try and hit the Hunter when the daze is over. I'm not even remotely confident that's a factor at all. My working theory was that you need to hit the guy after the daze but before he starts attacking again in order to chain a couple falters in a row, but in reality I have no clue. During testing I even got up to 4 consecutive falters. I would say that it's pretty unfair that the impaler is the only weapon that can falter the shit out of superheavies, albeit in a seemingly unpredictable and thus unreliable way.
-- I guess this also shows just how much weaker the flail is compared to the gauntlet in terms of damage