I may end up walking back my switch over to Fearless from Fan Fare. Most of what made it initially seem like I might gain something in the trade seems to be more about capitalizing on ignorance than stuff you can put to reliable use. Not having a good damage route off of 12 means you lose out on many key punishes, and the ability to convert stray hits into lift makes random damage a little tougher. Losing flutter games is sad faces, and it's at least a little useful to be able to alter air trajectory, and be less predictable in the air.
Tossing out random lifts is kind of fun to catch people off guard or while aggressing, but it's easy to get stuffed and I'm not sure how much mileage you really get off of it. It's certainly not a favorable trade in the same sense as SZ's iceball. Amp low fan is super, super easy to Flawless and allows for a meterless punish. It's nice against Joker since it low profiles one of his projectiles, but that's not common, and the risk reward on low fan just doesn't appear to be favorable in much of any light I can find.
If twist was worth doing, or there was a Fearless only alt route on on 12 that gave you enough hit stun to get lift off of 12, then I would feel more confident in changing over. It's a fun enough variation that I may stick it out for awhile, and see what I think over time, but I'm not convinced one is any better than the other at this point. Not in any meaningful way at my level of play anyway.
No on that b2 as an overhead business. Not unless you take away the low, and even then nobody is going to want to deal with a comparatively quick, far reaching overhead that leads to a character's upper end of damage output.
