General has no invincibility to first ground slash, in such a way that he takes damage whenever the saber is in him. Combined with SDC, it does 10 damage every 9 frames. It's so fast that doing any damage beforehand with air slash is pointless.
I first saw the trick on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5wK1dQYrzc (not the original, but I forgot where that was).
General is not weak to Shippuuga. I don't know what is.
Two more things:
- First of all, be careful when harvesting damage data from mmhp.net . The numbers are not always accurate, especially in games with non-discretized or poorly discretized health meters. Most of it was taken from testing on the consoles.
- Second, Zero's Z-Saber does different damage for many different actions, including between unenhanced air slash and Kuuenzan. It turns out that Kuuenzan is weaker than unenhanced air slash for some bosses (Split Mushroom and Cyber Peacock are the ones I know) and stronger for others. This means that the Split Mushroom refight will take
longer than the first. This also means that I have to reconsider the route.