Quote Originally Posted by SamSmoot View Post
Why are the Raijus forced? If using them would land you in the fire, then just use something else.
The thing that confuses me about then is that they're both gap closers. If you just used Forked Raiju, then the gap is already closed, and there's no reason for the gap closer in Fleeting Raiju.
It might be more useful if the first one moved you away from the target like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ4VnBUqVAQ&t=33s then the second one back in. (I have no idea what does the jump back thing in the video link
They are forced by the way they are shown to function in the media tour footage. Like Jackal said, you use them immediately or you lose them by overwriting one way or the other. Additionally, they are gcds. No other job in the game has a gap closer on the gcd, let alone as a breakable combo action, precisely because gap closing is supposed to be at least in partition, at player discretion for the purposes of dealing with mechanics. It is quite possibly the single most restrictive job mechanic for any job in the game in recent memory in its current iteration.