it affects gameplay, for one you are not rewarded with a combo like you should be for reading them right, and secondly it can mask a ton of his moves. and its not hard to do either, rather consistent actually
when Algol preforms a 4B+K while the opponent is doing a move with 1 or 4 that sweeps behind them, the attack and the chair will trade causing this bothersome , yet hilarious graphical error.