MK Peanuts
afk
The backfist is -2 on block I'm pretty sure. It's safe but he doesn't get to keep doing blockstrings into backfist, you can interrupt that if he tries. I dunno what variation you use but you might want cybernetic against Liu Kang. If you have high knives he can low fireball under them in which case he probably does outzone Kano. With mid knives I feel like the long range game is in Kano's favor.The Liu makes his strings very difficult to counter/punish(he ends almost all of them with that backfist), as well as outzones me almost completely. I'll trade, but Trading with Liu is a bad trade.
The Takeda just completely eliminates zoning with his Parry and the Projectile that eliminates my own. When he's inside, I don't really know what's coming, and I end up eating combos because of it.
If you don't know what Takeda's doing then I'd recommend going into training mode and seeing what his strings do. I don't think he has a very good high/low game and his normals are slow. Also I don't think Takeda has a parry?