no
i'm not. Look at Shangs frames. You can't trade with ground skull. That is the only projetile he will be using. That and SS at max range. SZ can not punish ANY of these options. So you're either blocking them and giving him meter.... or you're eating unbreakable 30%+ combo's.
To top it off... Shangs F4~GS shenanigans WORK on SZ even with the clone. He simplly just has to do a tiny dash which breaks the clone and lets him combo.
he controls the MU from the word Fight. Thank god his armor sucks and isn't a combo starter.
He's worse than Sonya because she has to use d4.
Shang can just use his projectiles.
abuse his wakeups using slide
i happen to play shang since a few months after release, he NEEDS meter for good meterless damage
soulsteal max range can be iceballed, he trades with skulls anyways and can SLIDE him, he loses the trade by 2% but its an untechable knockdown and shang has no oki
F4 gs can be armoured and D3'd, even if he does D3 after F4 gs hes only +3, his f4 becomes 7f, you can still D3 right after.
in the corner he gets raped, if he does escape the corner then you can ex slide on reaction:
SS
Uskull
Gskull
and can armour through his pressure
Uskulls can be slid at 3/4th screen
SS is suicide if sub catches you and LBSH, he will, one stray iceball means almost half life for sub and who plays sub better? the shang player or the SUBZERO player?
when it comes to normals 21 clone is great in this matchup, keeps you in the range you wanna be in