Well I play Nightwolf 1 of 2 ways, depending on who it's up against.
Stay on the outside and reflect any projectiles/arrow trade/EX-Shoulder(has armor, second hit is overhead
) or lightning if you've conditioned them to crouch block with shoulders and arrows.
Buuuuut for the most part it's basically jump distance away, and yeah you should get used to F+3,1 as it's faster to do consecutively and feels like 1,2,2 is slower. Generally, my bnb is 1,2,2 hatchet, hatchet, dash 1 dash 1 shoulder, but you can interchange with F+3,1 hatchet 11 hatchet dash 1 shoulder I believe. Don't know the percentages, this is off the top of my head x.x but anyways, I usually will throw out F+3,1 and try to hit confirm the hatchet, because the string is slow once it hits, if you understand what i mean.
If the opponent is blocking a lot from random shoulders(which you should throw out if the opponent is standing at about halfscreen or less,) then you can lightning or dash up for a throw which i believe gives a free lightning right after anyways.
Enough rambling though, try to make sense of it and ask about what I said accordingly, it's 7:30am here and I've been up all night, so I understand if I'm not making sense lol. -.-