I just figure she out footsies him pretty bad since his backwalk speed is awful and his normals kind of suck. She even goes under b+1 with b+3 easily. Plus I don't know what he's supposed to do about her jumping back. Who knows though.
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4x4lo8o actually plays this MU pretty good on Ares' end. He was blocking my usual shenanigans. He said he actually had MU exp against her.
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I really hate this matchup, I think it's potential 3-7 territory for Ares.
As you guys have described, the footsies game isn't good at all for Ares. But there's not really a viable zoning or keep away game for Ares to play either so Ares is sorta left with nothing to do in the match up. For me it basically comes down to put her in the corner, and if you can't you don't win.
It seems like it should be a zoning match up for Ares, but fireball is slow enough that it's pretty easy to evade, crouch, jump, or b3 under every single time. And the recovery is long enough that she gets a free dash afterwards. Straight sword can slow her down if she's really recklessly trying to dash in but most of the time she'll just crouch it and even if it hit Ares doesn't get much and you don't get another one for 9 seconds. So straight Axe ends up being the only effective zoning tool he has. It can't be evaded or b3'd under so she has to block it and it does good chip and good damage and a knockdown on hit. But you only get 1 every 9 seconds and she can mb catdash through(not on reaction).
Ares also can't zone at all once she's in ji2 range, she can jump over and full combo. I think she can even jump over Axe on reaction(may want to test that one, but I'm pretty sure that's what our Catwoman player is doing).
She can pretty much go to town on knockdown. Her b1/f1 strings can stuff wu Godsmack and they both advance her forward which can make punishing a problem if Ares teleports behind her. She can mn Catdash to catch any wakeup teleport that isn't meterburned. She can also blow up his teleports with jumps the same way any other character can. She has a bunch of other really stupid shit she can do against Ares wake ups but I'll let catwoman players figure it out themselves in case I don't get dq'd next time I run into 16 Bit in the brackets.
The footsies and midrange game is absolutely miserable. Ares normals are slow and short range. Ji2 is really hard to deal with. It can be hard to even touch her since she can back dash after any of her strings on block and Ares options for punishing it are terrible(he basically has to throw a projectile). b3 is hard to deal with.
Ares does pretty well if he knocks he down. He can stuff wake ups with d1/b2 for a mix up(unfortunately it's not a 50/50 and can be fuzzied and he doesn't get as much catwoman does on her mix ups, but it's good enough) or with 22 for pressure. He also does really well if she's in the corner. She doesn't have great options for getting out and is suseptible to most of his corner bullshit, although she can use trait wake up to get out of ambiguos Godsmacks for free
