If you want to explain why why none of his tools at least make for a decent character I'm all ears. Great range, minimizes a lot of zoning, nasty corner game.
To start with his only safe string to cancel out of is 11, and F23. That's literally it, one is a very tight confirm and the other is like 20+ startup, and both are High. Not that it's even that relevant because he is the only character in the game who doesn't have a launcher to cancel strings into, but it also means he has fuck all to pressure you with. He has no safe launch at all, the two ways he does have to lunch are both is highly punishable in MULTIPLE places and completely unconfirmed able, he has to commit to the bar before seeing if he even gets the hit. And even just applying it is a gimmick. Wtf is air pressure? Free anti-airs, dash outs, or Mb b3s all day because he doesn't even have a priority air attack, and his jump is ridiculously floaty and his divekick like half the velocity of Bladams.
things he doesn't have: a safe mid, a cancellabel launcher, a safe launcher, a hitconfirmable string, a wake up, a projectile, any sort of plus on block pressure, a 50/50, high damage combos, basically anything all resembling one of the many tools a real character has
Things he does have: the floatiest jump in the game and the slowest walkspeed. And a trait that disappears on block and have limited practical use even if it didn't, and is impractical as hell to setup most of the time anyway unless you in the corner.
With trait + meter + corner in dreamland, he can get what I get meterless with Flash off a hitconfirmable +6 pressure string. Where's the payoff?
he doesn't deal with zoning at all, maybe some of the crappier projectiles in the game but no real zoning. I WOULD say zoners are his hardest matchup since at least he can try playing spacing game with his normals against rushdown, but then again everything with range is punishably negative so even if you may not always get punished at range, one misread and they are in anyway and again, you don't have a wake up or anything even resembling counter pressure, so he just loses to everyone.
Basically if he does something it's either heavily unsafe or there is no reward:
Whoever you got at the bottom of the game - Brainiac is a tier below that if not two. He makes CSZ look legitimate. He is not even a real character lol he has to a joke on NRS behalf he fuckin sucks.
But he ppl will still lose to it and stay jumping into his D2 all day, so meh just like CSZ he'll stay Hercule tier
