After trying it for a bit, I'm really dissapponted with the new variation. I know thay we might get some tweaks along with 3rd variations, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.
Ok, they'll give us a hit confirmable launcher from every string, but how are we supposed to open the opponent? Every string that can be cancelled into snake bite starts with a fucking high. Ok, ok, every string except F2. But F2 is death on block!! There is no reason for the opponent to block high, the only risk is being hit by a (reactable) overhead that leads to... nothing. Here is where you start to think about the way more appealing idea of having snake bit + manhandled, and realize that's not gonna happen, and it makes you angry.
Again, our only safe option to take our turn is D1, but D1xxSnake bite doesn't combo, and it's not hit confirmable, so you're risking your life once more, as snake bite is death on block and isn't even amplifiable on block, so you'd better pray it connects, because the opponent would not hesitate to punish it.
Instead of having the above mentioned manhandled, you're gona have optic blast, a shitty move thay has zero synergy with snake bite. It doesn't combo and its frames make it useless up close. And then you think that, if I needed a mid projectile, I'd rather have bio-magnetic trap instead of optic blast, which would also have made snake bite more useful, adding DoT to the move.
But it is when I look at other variations focused in combo extenders, like Matoka Warrior for example, when I realize how much gimped this variation would be if Kano doesn't receive important adjustments.
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