It's not downplay, up ball randomly whiffs vs crouching sometimes, air ball is only a 10% knockdown move that's full combo punishable on block, and that 15% damage over time adds up. Let's not forget that 11 still Whiffs on small/female crouching hitboxes and upball, kanoball, and airball can all trade or be interrupted and are all full combo punishable on block. So this is far from up play. The vid you made was informative yes, but you up played certain scenarios and how this game deals with them. For one I can't just slice and immediately put you into a 50/50, I'm -5. Both b1 and b3 have more that 5f of startup so I at least am doing a 10f follow up and we know now that half the cast has 6-7f poke. Come on guys, Kano has always been doing this stuff since launch but now it works "as intended" since the b1 has the proper range. You can't seriously be upset because this character can finally do what dvorah, Jax, Quan chi, Erron black, FT, and countless others do in this game.