Characters I win with: Kat and Steve.
Characters I want to win with and try really hard to win with: Josie and Leo.
I feel good about the Steve wins. Setting up weird rhythms and timings. Catching movement while out maneuvering. Working with his strings and followups and stances.. Its fun and satisfying.
Katarina is super fun but I seem to start winning when I put myself on auto-pilot. When I try and make sense of what Im doing I fall behind. When I mash things into mixups randomly and just kinda.. do shit, I am more successful.
Josie I'm still figuring out. She really has a lot going on and I'm still working on it. Her mixups are SO damn fun, but in low ranks people mash so hard and so constantly you dont get to use them very often. It never pays to use anything except your fastest option, like SWS1. It works, but it's not terribly great for learning/fun purposes. Working out how to use her properly and make use of her CD options and such. She has a lot of really neat ways to sort of build sequences on the fly.
Leo is sort of similar. KNK stance is pointless in mashing messes. Just hit 1 and call it over. When i try to think my way through and build offense and learn and *play* the game, it just devolves. If I bash B+1,4~1 or 2, and I mash it harder, I tend to win.
I know what my issue is though, and some of it is on purpose.. I'm not playing to win - though I am winning more than losing. I'm just trying to *play*, not beat my opponent. I should just stick to one character and grind my way into ranks that make at least a LITTLE more sense.