I really do think Bane is 4-6 Bane, after playing
PND_Mustard for a good lengthy set and having troubles with Bane from others.
No, I'm not just in a state of salt, because I've been trying to figure this matchup out for a while now. Hear me out on this one.
The thing with Bane is, you don't want to be close. Yeah, of course. HOWEVER, here's where the whole idea of keepaway sorta falters a little bit. Bane's venom charge forces you to mini gun, specifically trait mini gun. However, that's only a good few seconds of being able to stop his charge from full screen. The problem with mini gun, though, is GL has to MB it constantly to keep Bane from charging on the whiff, and this only really is a great idea with trait up, because if mini gun whiffs just once, Bane can charge on whiff, and he's pretty much in, block or hit. Not to mention, when blocked, you have to MB OR, or Bane will just dash in, unless he's level 3. At that point, Bane gives no fucks about ANYTHING not mini gun.
The whole keepaway process sucks simply because you're constantly burning through meter to keep him there, because it's the only way you will. Once in, you might as well hope you didn't blow everything on mini gun. Wakeups are out of the question, and GL's backdash is so bad, it's very easy to catch him with Bane's stuff. So up close he's mauling you. But what about once venom runs out? If you managed to survive his onslaught without too much damage taken...what are you doing to get into his face? His backdash is retarded good, even with the debuffs. You have to do stuff like OR or LM to catch backdashes, and without much meter that you may have spent trying to keep Bane away, you don't really have much left to convert for damage on those options.
Bane forces GL into using too much meter for him to get damage where he can, and can even fuck him over for using the meter pretty well. Without meter, Bane becomes extremely difficult to manage. With meter, you can do stuff, but you have to make the right reads way too often with it for the usage to pay off. Not to mention you're stuck trying to keep Bane full screen, with a keepaway game that doesn't necessarily keep him out.
I'm willing to hear what everyone else is doing to combat Bane, but I don't see how GL wins it, or even how it's even for him.