I think people are heavily discounting how obnoxiously dope she is now as a rushdown character. Flawless blocking back 3,4,3,4 just got a lot less viable versus her because of ex run shadow kick. Back 3,4,3,4 is plus 5 on block and the kick being plus 3 is super lit. Jade will be tagging people with plus frames like gang busters if she is played well with good meter management. Pole vault only being -3 for its range is actually super potent too. Stagger you to death, get in on you with a safe on block chip special that hits mid and is cancelable on top of her run shadow kick and glow. She gets in well and is unpleasantly potent when she does.
People mad about safe staff spin suggestions, but this is actually better and plus so lol to them.
People also aren't understanding that she can now do BACK 2 and BACK 1 and cancel into this for safe ranged harassment. Safe overhead and so on. I'm surprise people aren't more hyphy about this.
Jade now has two fun, unique variations instead of one. I feel like Jaded has a legitimate place in the meta and I'm gonna switch over to it as a main focus after Kombat League season ends.
She reminds me of Hawkgirl/Doomsday now where she has strong mobility and counter zoning into plus frames for a bar.
Her bad match ups took a hit AND she got some juice to check people she can't zone well against. I'm here for it all.
Yes, +3 for one bar of meter. Pretty damn godlike considering it's gapless off of multiple strings and she gets a poke check in some cases and then mind games can follow from there.
