It's not an abusable thing but it's effective for mind games. Cassie also has good oki so people don't want to be on the ground against her. B21/overhead requires some great recognition of the string because it's quick. People still get hit all the time by b212 let alone throwing another mixup on top of it. I didn't mean for all her tick throws but in terms of hitconfirming 212 into flipkick there's no need thanks to EX grab. I've played people that let go of block on the last hit of 212 because I would more than likely go for tick throw (sometimes I still flip kick to try and punish that or a jump out attempt) making it hard to hit confirm into flip kick. Personally? Because I want to stay on top of them. Sometimes I flip kick, sometimes I do nothing, sometimes I tick throw, but I always wanna be on them
I understand what you mean and yes, the mixup is always there makes Brawler very scary. However most of the time, at high level, people play as a true footsie character, everyone wants to lower the risk, and talking about footsie, HW and Brawler are equally good. And getting hit by the low in B21 is more like a matchup inexperience problem, because it's the second hit, B21 OH is still not a true 50/50 it's fuzzyable, and full combo punishable on block
When did Hollywood start doing 38 percent midscreen? I'll take away the corner though, I believe I was thinking of some impractible "combo video" damage for Brawler. EX nut punch is definitely her best armored moved especially with the invincibility frames, I said most not best. The zoning is the main thing keeping Brawler from the top spot IMO. To me there's nothing Hollywood has that Brawler doesn't minus a long range option.
The damage is not the only thing that makes Hollywood better. It's the air gun and F34. F34 is a safe meterless overhead option. Everytime Hollywood gets plus frame, she can check people with F34 and if they guess wrong they eat 18%, and when they respect F34 HW can try DF1 and hit confirm into flip. F33 isn't safe (it's safe against some character but it's obviously not safe), so Brawler can't abuse F3 as effectively as HW. Yea F3 ex flip is safe but it eats meter so whatever. And the value of air gun is undeniable.
HW is also the only Cassie variation who can still scare Kung Jin, Mileena, Takeda.... after getting knocked down because she doesn't care about armor breaking setups
IMO HW is still the best, but only slightly better than Brawler in most matchups. Against Mournful and non Summoner Quan however, if you can instant air gun consistently you will have a really easy time raping them