Riiight. Well, if you just walking back, what's to stop you from getting cornered? Blocked lift is a dash, blocked crush is a dash or gunshot punish. Non-traited projectile wars are our favor. Just have to be smart about trait situations and wait them out. He'll get in range eventually, and then you have to play his game, which is not fun when you have only stuffable wakeups.
Non-traited projectile trades are most definitely NOT in our favor. At all. Raven has so many ways to shut down our projectiles it's not even funny.
Also you cannot punish a blocked soul crush with gun unless you're already in rather close range (She can crouch it and soul crush punish), and at that point the dash towards her is much more useful.
I'm not going into too much detail today as I've already written a novel's worth on this site today, but the matchup boils down to her walking backwards and throwing projectiles at you sometimes to keep you in place while you barely move forward or back trying to bait out a soul crush to get one single dash forward, then restart the process.
You can definitely move forward when she backs up, but you can't react to a soul crush, so if you were walking forward when she does it, you're getting caught, comboed and sent back across the screen.
Now yes, when we get in, we have a huge advantage and our corner advantage is ridiculously good, but it is very hard to get her there, even if she walks backwards all game, due to the fact she does have ways to switch sides, and there are corner interactibles on a lot of stages to allow her to get away.
Pushblocks are also huge for her as they put us back at a range where lift becomes safe and will punish everything we do.
That said, when we finally DO inch our way in, the MU becomes much, much easier and in the corner it is straight up rape. You do have to be careful about how you go in though and constantly keep her guessing since a pushblock really hurts us.
Holy shit there's so much going on. I stand on the Zod MU where it is. He has too much going for him against Joker. The fact that he can IA 2 Zod balls at once on the screen is crazy and everything else I said but I played M2dave which doesn't rush he only zones and from what I've seen pig is a bit more aggressive. That being said we might have to swap opponents to get a better understanding. Also the Raven MU is definitely 6-4 imo because of what that dude was saying and also because of other shit but I have a headache now from what I just read lol so I'll get back to you on it later lol
I have to ask, did you play this MU online or offline? I usually wouldn't ask, but I have barely ever seen M2D attend events offline and the MU is COMPLETELY different online.
For example I don't think Zod should EVER get an IA zod ball on screen offline since you can punish with gunshot on reaction AND get a free forward dash out of it.
M2Dave and Relaxed may be the only two Zods I have yet to play though, which is weird since M2D is only about 2-3 hours away from me...