Wtf are his problems that people keep crying about!!!!? Even REO says he gots probs but doesn't state a god damn thing! I fucking hate your community!!!!
GA stays until someone tells me wtf there problems are with him
Random rambling to try and answer your question:
I guess its sort of hard to quantify. But he seems to have issues against characters who can zone him out. He is sort of an all or nothing type character that has to do all of his work off knock downs and set ups. Hes great for snowballing if you make a few good reads otherwise hes limited to stuff that the opponents can beat they just choose not to.
Chris G's success with Green Arrow primarily has to do with the fact that nobody knows the match up.
Shazam is like this too. Hes great until people understand the match up and then these characters start to fall short because they rely on pressuring you while knocked down to keep things going.
His strings don't feel very purposeful. I find myself using only j3 and f2d13 when I use him with the occasional b23 if I can get away with it. I guess he feels like you have to prime all of your offense with his godlike j3.
The more I'm trying to explain all this the more I come up with solutions to my problems in my head. I think at the end of the day hes just a more reaction heavy type character and players will need to work for their wins. Which is the source of most complaints I presume. People think other characters win matches with ease and thats just not fair! Patch in skill for me please!
I love green arrow but I think the only time you will see me pull him out in a tournament is to catch someone off guard. If I'm down in the set and I dont think my main character will win. That being said, you will never see me use him against black adam, green lantern, superman, etc because I view it as too much of a liability. I need to feel like you cant keep me out and that your playstyle isn't very YOLO heavy to choose him because he sort of relies on his opponent clamming up.
