This has absolutely nothing to do with anything I said about the Kang/Liu matchup. The fact that Johnny outranges and easily whiff punishes so many of Liu's favorite buttons is a big deal, and the straight fireball keeps him at least honest in the zoning. This means that LK, who is used to controlling space against so many other characters, has to deal with a character that controls the space against him in the MU.Struggle where? SonicFox struggle with character like Jade and Dvorah against massively broken Liu Kang. And he struggle against other Kang player, because Kang was and still is OP.
Mk10 is no comparison at all, cause it was complete dead game, and Sonic and other top players moved to other games long ago.
And Sonic beat him pretty convincingly in top 8 at the CEO and at the NA East Online Cup.
As far as this night match, it was totally SonicFox outplay ninjakilla.
You can say 'outplay' all you want, but the truth is that Ninja could not get comfortable in footsie range due JC's kit. And that means he has to commit to risks that can be whiff punished, AA'ed, etc. It's a big deal.