I can never really tell which is worst; fighting a heavy zoning Kabal with IAGB on the screen non-stop along with Groundsaws or dealing with Kabal's NDC rushdown up close? Kabal ALWAYS has Breaker available to him because he builds meter from spamming and his NDC blockstrings pressure, he can Ex Nomad Dash out of pressure and gets a free combo from it in return. Yeah, if you have a character like Mileena she can stop Kabal from spamming away but going head to head with Kabal up close is just as overwhelming, Kabal having armor on his Ex Nomad Dash free combo, his F3 and F4 stuffs her D3/D4, mediocre pressure, his normals are faster than hers and she has no armor to get out easy like he does.
I remember last year when everyone was complaining Kung Lao was overpowered BECAUSE he was too good at rush down mainly that Spin and he can zone with that ridiculous Low Hat projectile 2,4,Low Hat abuse he can't have both rushdown and zoning. Now Kung Lao is nerfed to be a risky character to make a move with, evolved into an anti-zoner like Mileena.
The normalize dash nerf from patch 1.04 to 1.05 dash duck block is what made Kabal too strong at zoning and the nerf indirectly made zoners like Kitana, Noob Saibot, Kenshi stronger. The ability not being able to dash forward or backward then duck a projectile immediately even though you pressed block hurts characters that can be zoned out easily. That was such a stupid nerf, who the hell came up with that idea? TYM community or NRS? It's crazy.