After hitting a Enemy/Candle you can't hit a other one hitting will be disabled for 17 frames with any cross on the screen. It This is possible to cancel imported cross hits out with a wrong true for all crosses on screen hitting something. The whip seems to have his own frame window also made out of 17 frames where it can't hit again for this amount of framesafter you hit something. This is also called whip- candle- or cross cancel. It can cancel out important hits and be annoying to deal with.