Dukmunky
Arms Dealer, including all 4 of Goro's
First- I sincerely support the idea that Kano, while he does have good tools, must not be left behind as updates buff all the characters around him, or else he will, without a doubt, end up in the bottom 3-5.
Ok so how about this for a middle ground where we can all post a little "no salt" sign on the floor and keep the ad hominem attacks and crying to a minimum:
Kano is a zoner and footsie character who only gets good meterless damage in the corner.
How about we agree most of his match-losing weaknesses would be resolved if he had one or both of the following:
1) a meterless bnb that does something around the 32-35% that Erron black/scorpion/even Ferra/Torr get so that when you do make those tough reads/mind games payoff they have the potential to create the health advantage necessary to put Kano in the drivers seat (without a huge meter disadvantage) until the opponent responds in kind.
2) a more advantageous hit box on balls or (OMG OP NERF NOW) make air ball overhead when used in sweep range for a somewhat viable knockdown OH option when you play the footsie/mind game strategy perfectly. A jump back OH threat creates that situation for zoning and the diet rushdown cutthroat variation.
There. Is that an agreeable enough wish list, which avoids the pitfalls of wishing for the easy fix of converting Kano to rushdown? Does it sufficiently acknowledge Kano's footsie/space control/mind game character design? I think so. Then again, I'm just another noob who lounges around in his limited edition Kano undies.
