Why would you backdash against Bane when jumping back is usually the better answer? And command grab can be backdashed out of. It doesnt penetrate backdash invincibility frames. Having venom on command grab doesnt matter because Bane's biggest issue is he cant get people to stop mashing buttons or jumping around. Command grab is so slow you can do a D1 which will absorb by armor but have enough time to jump up and full combo Bane on the way down in his recovery frames.
Bane has some significant issues, but they mostly revolve around most of the cast having zoning, and many of them having zoning which completely negates his level 1 venom armor (Batman, KF, DS, MB Superman, to name a few. Nightwing's godamn three hit air projectile.). Bane's Charge should be able to punish lazy zoning, but it doesn't, and he has a pretty hard time getting around it with dashing/jumping.
People pushing buttons in his face and jumping around are not Bane's problem. In fact, I've found he specifically punishes that sort of behavior from much of the cast. His airthrow and uppercut both punish jumping, with his uppercut often leading into a mixup, and as long as he has venom his turn punch and throw stop random poking and sloppy pressure, and lead into mixups. He also has one of the strongest Oki games against most of the cast, as venom means they can't just throw out wakeups and genuinely have to play your guessing game which is not in their favor. Everyone goes on about Lobo's throw, but honestly I feel Bane's is the best in the game because of the position it leaves the opponent when you don't MB.
His d1 is also an amazing poke, and after training people to respect it, it can be used to go into turn knuckle or body press.
I've occasionally run into players who I believe are considered good, and if they weren't using someone that Bane had a nightmarishly hard time getting in on, then they first time I knocked them down would often cost them a life bar. If they were someone like Lantern, though, then I'd pick a different character because fuck that MU.
Also, I beat 90% of the Bane's I've played on XBL because they meter burn their moves and try to do flashy, bullshit combos instead of just keeping me in a meat grinder. I'm certainly not the best Bane, but before my data got corrupted I had like a 68% winrate over ~600 matches, and that was achieved by ending every combo in Body Press, then doing either Turn Knuckle, b23 113 bf3, or just bf3 on their wakeup, then doing it again, and again, and again. There's a bit more to it than that, and I know it's not flashy, but it works for me.
edit: Honestly, I think Bane is just very matchup dependent, ala Zangief. But he could probably use some buffs to get through multi-hit projectiles, IMHO.
