Let me put it to you this way...
Characters that can hug any upper corner and kind of hang out have a HUGE advantage in this game due to overall (not NO) just overall lack of punishment options.. See Hawkgirl.. If she catches the life lead on you.. And gets full screen.. Good luck trying to punish.. Now of course it can happen.... Say Harley's Cupcakes, DS upshot, Batman up batarang... And all they really have to worry about is an initial mace toss (at a kind of strange angle)..
Supes... If his jumping laser went cross screen like his back, forward ground laser.. He would be held in MUCH less favor... As it is with his air dash and air laser properties, it can make it very difficult to catch a runaway Supes.. His air lasers can be blocked, even his MB air lasers.. But the amount of chip it takes off plus the range it covers...the move is invaluable cheese when the match is on the line and health bars are running REAAAAAL low..that does not equal clean in my opinion.
HG is actually not that bad to punish due to long recovery. Just stay full screen as soon as she throws low mace, which can't hit you full screen jump over and dash and you are right below her. Her DK is unsafe and everyone can jump attack her.
I used to main HG and then discovered she was ultimate trash. However, I still use her, but she can't win a tourney against good players. She is really only good against people who don't know the match up. If you get past her flight gimmick, her neutral game is nowhere to be found with the exception of d1. I believe she is bottom 5 just like Reo and Tom Brady do, and maybe even bottom 3. If you find how exploitable the holes are in her game... she is done.
Problems:
No chip damage.
She can't hit you from flight full screen, her zoning is overrated.
If you have an air attack you can usually get her out of the air easily.
Only 1 low string
Everyone over hypes her corner game bc this is the only time she can really take advantage of her 50/50 string (slow starting) and get 40% meterless damage.... yet most of the cast can do this and have way more corner pressure.
Flash: close to full screen just jump over low mace charge (on reaction) and do his flying uppercut. If works at all heights except max, but HG needs to be able to throw horizontal to counter jumps, so she won't be max height.
How to win with everyone:
If you can counter her this easily with flash imagine the majority of the cast. You actually want to be full screen against her early on and just whiff specials faster than she slowly throws maces to out gain her meter building. Jump over low Mace Throw, get damage to get the life lead and run full screen again. Once you force her to come to you... she's done bc of her terrible neutral game and lack of an air speed. Timing her out may be a boring way to win, but in a tourney... you are there to win.
If your recovery game is on point you can blow her up with 21 of the 26 characters.
Oh and bats just needs one trait bat, which he quickly gets, jump and release. Much better than finding angle to throw up batarangs.
PS you forgot to mention how Supes can delay MB on his air eye lasers, so once you block and try to dash... Boom... full screen again.
