lol yea man, online is so crazy. Plus frames don't get respected like 70% of the time. I wish this game was a little more like Street Fighter's normals where they're fast enough to play footsies. I'll never understand NRS reasoning for making light attacks and D2's in this game so slow. 7 frames should be the most. Aquaman has a 7 frame D2 and look at how many people jump on top of him. If normals were faster, +8 moves would guarantee you can't be poked out (well online more than offline, offline I have no problem following up after I'm plus)
I tend to just go for D1 into F213, if I'm doing D12 I go for 33 into staff spin for pressure or 3 into MB flipkick to stay in Escrima.