Right of course. The issue is, it will also pop before they trigger an ability. So, if you use your interrupt and they wait to use their jutsu, you do 1k damage and interrupt nothing. But if they wait. and then trigger their jutsu it fires instantly. There's no window to counter unless it's a jutsu that replaces attack.

I understand how the stack works. But if an opponent uses a prompt jutsu and there are no other jutsu on the stack it fires instantly. It only checks once to see if there are other Jutsu being case. If there are, the animation waits and you have time to counter. If there are no other Jutsu on the stack it will fire immediately. Regardless of position.

That means in order to counter you have to predict not only *If and Who* but also When. Because if someone wants to stop you from using stone fist on a particular jutsu they can just wait till it's in the middle of the turn. This will even stop Auto counters because if the game senses nothing to interrupt but you have the chakra for a jutsu it will use it on nothing. Then you're free to get off your Chiyo revive or whatever with no counter threat.

But essentially, no, I'm not missing some secret tech? It's basically the window is extremely small unless there is a stack currently in action?

Does that mean that non-acupuncture interrupts are pretty weak since it requires extreme finesse and some exceptional mind games to trigger reliably?