Give the SP Button top priority. It does not make sense for the button to take the lower priority when pressing the button can be used both offensively and defensively.
Pressing the SP button in the middle of the combo does not register; the game instead assumes you are continuing the combo. This can lead to multiple instances where players take a hit when expecting the special.
I agree! I was hunting a 10* Radobaan with Long Sword. I was in the middle of a combo when it started to emit sleeping gas. I kept tapping the special button but it finished the combo before the special started.
Though, in this instance if I did get put to sleep during my last animation, would activating the special take me out of sleep?
If it wasn’t sleep gas but an attack and I was stuck in the last part of the combo, I would have been hit.