Stormblood was obsessed with knockback mechanics in their encounters, despite the fact that neither DRK nor Physical Ranged had access to knockback immunity. The timing of the ghost knockback on O5S was particularly unintuitive if you wanted to negate it with Plunge to maintain uptime, as you had to go based off of the animation and not the castbar.

The fight was also let down by the fact that Godbert didn't show up to suplex the train at the close of the fight.