Yeah I've literally never played a hawk girl. My matchup knowledge is my weakest category. Working on it though. I got my revenge in the tourney. It was my only recorded tourney match. I'll post it once it's up.
It's a bad MU for Nightwing too, but this is how I play it.
Get to full screen and force her to whiff mace toss a few times. Build meter by whiffing air throw and backdash away. When you expect a whiff, be ready to dash. Double dash to get under her and use standing 3 or j3 to bring her down.
You have to be wary of MB mace toss because if she reads the dash under she can blow it up.
You also have to watch for her dive kicks. Don't let her swing on you after you block one. Hawkgirl's like to pretend they're plus on fucking everything. Expect a d1 follow up.
Play patiently. She wins when you start making mistakes. If she wants to get in and go nuts, just block high and try to scout the lows - she only has one.
Once you get the knockdown - jump forward with 2. It'll stuff a bunch of her shit and may work to convince her to stop waking up with mace charge. Personally, I never stop jump forward 2 on Hawkgirl players. Most of them are gimmicky, wake up happy and impatient. Even if they get out of pressure - you're still pissing them off because they're wanting to do mace charge all the fucking time - so it becomes easier to read in neutral because it's all that most of them can fucking think about.
If it's not obvious, I fucking hate Hawkgirl. Even winning against the bitch is annoying.
