You are asking for stuff no character has. 1 as a starter, is basically high across the character board. They are supposed to be fast punishers while risking getting low profiled. It is a perfectly viable punish move. Its angle isn't the best, but if the opponent is deep at all, it's an easy KB to get with 121. Youngsters shouldn't have any trouble hit confirming 12 into full combo as well. It's doing its job, and is more or less in line with other characters.
B3 is fine. It has decent advancement, starts low, safe on block, and leads to full hit confirmable combos. Nobody is going to react and blow up 16f because they see it happening. They might FB the gap (which I think would be well deserved if they did). But giving him a 12f, low, advancing starter that leads to full combos and is safe on block is asking for a lot. It basically means you get a full low starting combo attempt every time you land a d1. b31 2+4 doesn't seem to come out on block, and is super easily confirmed into full combos. Someone feel free to enlighten me, but IDK why it even exists.
F32 should not end in an overhead. I don't really have a good reason as to why, so maybe I'm wrong. It's fairly useful the way that it is, and it just seems like asking for candy just because it sounds good. I don't think it changes much, so maybe in a why not sort of way.
The b2 game seems fine. I honestly prefer to be able to not do it on a strict count and have a mix mini game to play instead. It gives me reasons to set up chops, and end corner combos in chop so I can run the mini game. Granted, I don't think people really know about that mini game until you probably are playing really good people. That is much better people than me. I don't know that I've sensed anyone knowing what I was trying to do, but I still get overhead chop KB's often enough, and that leads to more combo potential (like half your life combos). It's not like SZ slide that just cashes out and that's your damage.
The real issue with b2 is that it's mapped to b2 and there is no buffer on normals. I've done lost count of how many times I've tried to do b12 and had the 1 eaten because I was on the wrong side of block stun. B2 is so negative and stubby that just tossing them out in thin air is Trouble Town, and getting it all the time because you are a frame off sucks.
I think Lighting strike is about what they wanted. It's hard to just toss out there, but I don't think that was ever the idea. It catches jumpers, and does decent chip. There are basically guaranteed chances to use it, like after push and MB bf1. I'm not saying it's a great tool or anything, but it can be useful as long as you don't need it to be Sonya's rings.
