imho f+2 is your friend. It's your best footside / conditioning tool if you space it right. It's also the only thing you can do against the growing army of characters with better point blank buttons than Baraka. Every baraka main I've watched abandons it because they want big stupid punishes with gutted or f+4, or they're afraid of d+2s. Well, have fun getting all your progress oblieterated by Breakaway.
Space f+2 to stay safe, cancel it into fireballs or into chop chop on block, or just put them on the ground if it hits. Yes, you are going to eat a d2 kb combos but you only have to do that once. Save your breakaway for that.
In Geras country just f+2,1,2 anything he sticks out, put him on his back and keep up your game. Stay in his face, he can't do anything on oki except wakeup u+3 believe it or not, so learn to space it when he has meter, and when he doesn't, put him back on the ground. Be prepared to grab any and all rolls. Geras players just love getting up pressing fucking buttons, so just make sure chop chop / b+3 / d+4 / b+2 is already waiting for them. If you get the luxury, put out a flag but all you really have to do is blow it once and eat a really good sand trap to blow all your progress.
The splash is a problem, but honestly, if he's splashing you point blank or cross up that much, he's not afraid of your d+2 , f+2, back spikes, or chop chop, and you've already lost.
