I can't wait to see how this plays out. Every time we get a character showcased they look beastly. I've yet to see a single character that looked bad. It'll be interesting to see how things turn out post-release.
The thing to remember when watching a character is to remember all those other beastly characters and figure out just how many of the new tools you see can be checked by things you've seen others have. Reptile was showing that a competent usage of projectile reflect and zoning can indeed make his life hard. Especially if they start baiting him into setups for Lift with Kitana. Now think of all the other tools that can mess with things...good teleports can go around acid or balls, or punish Kitana trying to runaway. Mulithit projectiles can be checked by Kitana meaning those characters have to do more than zone. Slides can be checked by ground traveling projectiles , but they can go under others.
All things are related to each other. Tools are great...we just got to reign in our excitement all the time on stuff like overspeculating how good a tool and just keep in mind that much relies on just how readily you can use a tool vs the roster in this game.
That said...everything looks REALLY good and because of just how well they seem to have setup the tools across variations to check each other I think we will see quite a few fun things from the cast as players figure out which styles to pull out for which matchups. Reptile I see as designed around 3 ideas...helping folks needing more mixups, Helping folks who are good at pressure to be able to get the most from it, and for those not really suffering in mixups or pressur but who may have trouble pressuring just making it so they can get more for their combos once they are in and giving them that opportunity since its less frequent for them than folks excelling in other tactics.
I'm pretty pleased so far.
