I agree with HD smoke, especially about how smoke players need to have good fundamentals to be successful (poking, spacing, aa's). I think (for me at least) the hardest thing for me to condition my opponent to do is block low since really the only low threat that smoke has is d4. Now I realize that d4 is a legitimate threat due to the potential for either a follow up d4 or a dash in and throw due to smokes d4 having advantage on hit so I'm not saying it is useless, its just that many players are willing to eat the d4s and potential throw attempts rather than open themselves to a b23. Its not like playing smoke is brain dead, I know that personally since I switched to smoke my footsie, spacing, aa, counter poking game has improved drastically and I am a better player for it. If anything playing smoke forced me to have better fundamentals. I definitely wont ever downplay smoke or say that he is bad but LBSH, he is nowhere near as strong of an all around character as KL, kabal, kenshi, Sonya, Freddy or the other top 5 ish characters. I think smoke is absolutely top 10 and I don't think that I am "downplaying" him just because I don't think he is top 5. But that's just my opinion, take it or leave it.