You know, I'm getting really tired of not reading or hearing about amazing buffs to Laura and Ibuki.
Because Ibuki is Capcoms bastard child apparently and they think Laura is fine based purely on the strength of her tits.
White life change is decent for Ibuki. Throw changes hurt her.
Ex reload.. god. She needs meter for something else now.. meter gain has been nerfed across the board and she was already STARVING for it. Where am I getting this extra meter to make this even a thing?
And they gave her a little extra damage via the st.mk link, which is also now a frame slower. Whoooo. Its nice, dont get me wrong, but its not anything that 'changes' her in any meaningful way. I really wanted to see her Vtrigger become something like Uriens, something that gains value every time she has it.. Unless there are some unknown or unpublished changes she is still going to essentially the same character she has been.
Now, yeah, with the S2 changes in general and upper tier characters getting pulled down (some) it seems like she get better purely by dint of not having gotten worse.. But then you see Guile getting better, Bison getting a ton of new stuff (we dont know where he will be, but he got lots of shit). Gief getting stuff (again, dunno where the dust will settle),, Urien getting way awesome.. SO FAR we havent seen huge changes to Karin and Necalli (that I know of, correct me if Im wrong) and so on and so on.. So, there is some shuffling but the universal S2 changes outside of white life (I feel like she puts hands on opponents a lot and is meant to be busy and button-ey, so Id imagine she would build up white life on a lot of opponents) either dont matter to her, or damage her.
Suuuppeerrrr underwhelmed by this crap. I hope someone proves me wrong, but I see S2 shaping up to be similar to S1 for Ibuki.. A few diehards main her, and occasionally she looks good because people dont know the MU, but she will post zero tournament results and will just be, at her best 'not awful'.
By way of disclaimer: I'm just forecasting. We obviously have no damn idea what S2 will look like once everything hits and the community has time to parse it all, make sense of it and apply it. Based on the evidence we currently have available, the above are my thoughts.