I think this ninja shang will not be that great .... Sure he cant be zoned but what else ? Reptile slide is slow and punishable , rest are just combo extenders . His normals are not that great , Without corpse drop and ground fbs he will have nothing scary in neutral .
The moves will be different. They adjusted many moves for example Sub Zero's Trap and Ice Spike have different frame data. In the video the low low combos but in current build of the game it doesn't combo from F2. They changed several moves so the character is more functional and has a different playstyle.
I'm sure a few characters could have had better moves. I expected Kabal to get Air Gas Blast and Air Hook but it looks like he got ground gas and air hook which is a bummer but I think it can be useful and interesting.
Many characters will benefit from 3rd Variations and frame data adjustments most notibly:
Kitana, Kano, Kotal, Shao, Sub, Scorpion, Jacqui, Jax.
I know for a fact many characters benefit in several ways just from those abilities alone yet somehow I seen some claim their character doesn't. In another thread someone said kano won't be good before patch even released even though Snakebite gives him a launcher for high damage off every string he has. One if the worst things about kano was high risk low reward doing stuff like D1xxKanoBall but in his 3rd he has legit options that are not very risky and gets 30-40%.
Even his D1xxanythingxxSnakebite is monumentally better than his other two variations since he gets good damage off a fast mid they can't duck and has a way to enforce his other strings now they have a larger threat and layer and I'm sure OS
Here is Tom Brady's breakdown of how much Sub Zero benefits from his 3rd variation:
If you remember K&M's V3 speculation vids on YouTube you will understand a great portion of the cast got his speculated changes and almost every one of them benefits in several ways:
