Alright so I might be able to shed some light on the Catwoman matchup.
I mostly fight
Krayzie a bunch offline and sometimes I fight
KH StarCharger online.
This is mostly pre-patch stuff but what I noticed is that:
1: At the beginning of the match, Catwoman's options to avoid Nightwing's b2 are jumping, evade, or a well timed backdash. However, She can't really beat out wingdings outside of doing a j2 (whip) up whip or regular whip if the wingdings are done low enough so that NW can't avoid it. The grounded whip options aren't used too much since b2 will beat it since it is faster than 19 frame regular whip, and up whip will not hit NW.
2: Catwoman's j2 is similar to GL's rocket in the fact that it controls the same area of space but Catwoman gets a full combo when it hits and doesn't stay as airborne. So that being said, since NW has mediocre anti air options, this jump in attack is really strong unless you anticipate it at close range with an instant j3/j1 to aa Catwoman as she tries to do the attack.
3: Her low hitbox in general can be annoying since her b3 goes under so many things which makes it difficult to reliable keep her pinned down, ducking can avoid standing 1 in staff stance, and her strings give her some nice pushback which make it difficult to reestablish momentum since NW's longer ranged normals are on the slow side. However, NW can now follow up stuff in staff stance, giving him an edge in rushdown when he gets in, as compared to Catwoman who relies on ambigious setups and kitty tricks to get stuff after a knockdown.
4: Zoning her from full screen is a good idea as long as she doesn't have meter. She might be able to dodge projectiles easier because of her evade buff but this is similar to making GL whiff air rockets to bait a reaction out of him, in this case Catwoman's catdash. Even though her dash received an additional hit of armor, NW has some options in both stances to blow it up. Escrima has wingdings which hit 3 times, breaking her armor, his 112/3 which hit really quickly but sometimes will lose to the dash, and staff spin in staff stance. That being said, try to zone from distances where catdash will whiff and make the MB version towards the end so you have some time to try to beat out its 2 hit armor. However, wingdings shouldn't be used as a main zoning tool because it can be punished by catdash if timed correctly.
5: Allowing her to pressure you is scary since she has extremely good 50/50s with her low and overhead combo starters. However, if you block correctly it effectively ends her pressure game unless you get greedy and try to grab the cat by the tail for a lack of better words. Since it is easy to block NW in staff stance but you're at +frames for a long time as long as you have meter you can keep up pressure, giving you some chances to perform actual mixups with utilizing the +frames of staff to go to escrima mixups
IMO this can be a 5-5 but can be debated to be in CW's favor slightly but not toooooo much. The MB staff spin buff did help.
This is all I can write up with my limited experience at this point.
tl;dr
-Nightwing does alright in the beginning in the matchup.
-Catwoman's strings while not at advantage are hard for NW to capitalize on sans meter because of how small she is and the pushback.
-Zoning is what can help you shift momentum
-Staff Stance will be a bit more utilized since MB will not whiff but its harder to avoid CW so this MU is an Escrima one
-NW wins pressure game. CW wins on the knockdown game. Corner game is equally dangerous for both.
EDIT:
because of
Sajam 's video, I am convinced that NW staff is whats good for this.
oh and
GGA 16 Bit look we are discussing MU substance instead of numbers! Can we get e-points?
