I didn't everything I said is true. All you did was downplay lackeys options. At least lackey has all of these options.
You are wrong with smart disc. Smart disc goes away if predator blocks or is hit and the recovery is really bad so you can't set up the disc and then run in. You will get hit by another projectile during the recovery of the disc and it will go away. If you cancel any string on block into disc you can be full combo punished. You can only do it on hit.
Lackey is way better IMO. You can have yours.
You just said you can punish fan, Sai, and the like with charge. You can't outside of point blank and even that is on a read. That is misinformation, it's an inaccurate representation of the characters tools.
You claimed you can b.12 into a d.1 check, which as you said "doesn't leave you negative and let's you 50/50", not only disregarding that F/T doesn't actually even have a 50/50 because the two moves are decently far apart in frames, but also that even if he did the b.2 would completely whiff on an opposition bent you did b.12 d.1 on. On top of that, d.1 is -6, command throw is only an option in the corner, a whiffed tick throw has enough delay to full combo punish, b.12 at close range causes d.1 to lose out to other pokes, and so on.
Our stagger pressure exists in the form of b.121 into d.3 or b.1212, that's the sum of it.
Our jump speed is actually much worse than Predators because of its short reach, our huge hitbox, and the inability to delay landing it into disc. That was also misinformation.
For the sake of it also, I'm not downplaying. I'm actually reciting you frame data and stating what actually would occur during the pace of a match. You're tragically upplaying a character by claiming his tools do something that they just don't feasibly do.
Onto your statement about predator being unable to run in with disc, I encourage you to duck a projectile at full, throw a disc up, and see if the next one catches you before you can duck it. From my testing, you have more than enough time to disc, duck, and run to chase it in.
Also it's recovery isn't all that long, it's pretty long but predator isn't exactly a character you want to blindly jab into. Even a moment of hesitation makes the difference between a punish and getting hit, and against certain characters, predator can use his natural push-back on strings to scoot him out of jab range. He has surprisingly effective spacing tools, and no one is reacting to the 11-odd frames of start up on disc to make that punish. It's a read at best, a guess at worst.
Lackey is arguably the worst, bar none, absolute bottom character in this game. After they got rid of Mb Torryuken, we adopted about 3 unwinnable 9-1 or 8-2 MUs, and several 7-3s against us too