Honestly, I don't think DS can get by in any MU relying on guns (except HG, but that bitch is weak in the knees for guns 10-0 all day). However, this is one of those MUs where he does lose one of his strong points as a character for the most part, with the exception of shutting down down her full-screen game, which I will admit, is nice knowing you don't have to honestly deal with at the cost of not being able to use our own.
But I feel too much of the strategies I hear come down to assuming the KF is going to do something dumb like YOLO slide or YOLO Iceberg.
Now, this is definitely a winnable MU because, as I feel I should open with the fact that I have not ONCE said DS has a poor up-close game, we do have a solid close-up game, but I feel KF's gets underestimated.
She can D2 us out of J3 clean, which will lead into vortex, so, we can go for early ones to get the safety of not being AA'd consistently at the cost of losing the frame advantage to actually go for a mix-up without being interrupted by KF for trying to do anything.
The thing that I feel isn't mentioned, but is a huge part of this MU specifically (and a few others) is very tight meter management. MB F3 and MB B3 are solid tools for this MU and are worth the bar, but if you wanna keep her from just going nuts, we do want to possibly keep the extra bar on deck for the threat of MB guns.
However, with our mix-ups comes the fact that if KF guesses right, she gets real damage, where as we do not when guessing right on hers. Yes, D1xxSS is an option, but we get almost nothing off it and MBing the SS when she guesses right nets her a full-combo punish, which is our way to get anything real off the SS. We have B1 as the low, which isn't bad at all, but becomes a bit predictable. Since her 1F parry will fuck DS up for anything else we try (although I do think MB F3 will still go through, but that's more meter we need).
Her vortex fucks us up just like everyone else. yes, we can help lower it's strength by a bit, but not enough for it not to be a devastating vortex. Again, she just gets more from us than we get from her on correct reads, ect.
Or is it really THAT hard to admit that DS doesn't have the up-close game that KF has? Cause if he does, DS Top 5 all day.
However, it's not, so I don't see why it's such an abomination to some to say she has the edge on us in that category... Mind you, I say she has the EDGE, not that we're completely hopeless, just that hers is in fact better. people pick KF for ruching in and doing dumb 50/50s... Not DS. And there is a good reason for that.
And since our zoning gets shut down by her "zoning", and our counter-zoning shuts down her zoning... I feel that's kind of a dead section right there.
So I see nothing wrong at all with saying she has an advantage in this MU... I'm not even saying it's some number like 8-2 or even 7-3 in her favor... But I feel like a 6-4 in her favor isn't at all out of the question...
