u/Asmrdeus

Unsurprising but Billy takes first place with 14 picks, However surprisingly Rock is not far behind.

We can also see good solid picks, and The match of that Vox who broke into the Top 8 Brussels had some very hype moments.

Over all way better representation than what people make it out to be.

Holy sheet, 89 Mr. Karates, people love this guy, and I get why he is fun.

But please! 95% of the people I faced had no idea that the HK flying kick is fully punishable by all the cast one way or another, please stop letting Mr. Karate get away with it, also I started to win more against the other Mr. Karates once I understood that hyper jump beats all options other than cancel and block from his counter, it doesn't trigger on back hits, the kick is punishable the dash doesn't side switch and the grab gives you 5 business days to get the wild punish, practice Hyper jumps and cross ups against people who spams this, with this two things you will win against 60% of them alone, best of luck.

Now for the character general thoughts, damn he is cool, there is so much swag on his combo routing, that was very fun to do, many mind games, his easter egg super may be worthless but gives style points so I take it, he is very beatable but people gave me way too many free wins out of knowledge checking, which makes sense, also beware far HK can cancel on super AND counter, which grants some VERY cheeky command grabs.

MR. Karate was ROBERT?????!!! And he is Chun Cosplayer-ing Marco???!!

341 matches and a 51% winrate, feels about right.

Most fought character was Krauser Followed by Rock.

Less fought character was Ronaldo with 0 encounters.

Highest Winrate was against Mary, with 68.4% as any Spin Fall receives a Schwarze Lanze in reply

Lowest winrate to matchup ratio was Chun with 36.4% I just... Chuns scare me more for not having any idea what is behind their heads than the character itself, they did the most random shenanigans possible.

Kain was also a very fun character to use, but damn hard to get my head around his game plan, and I am glad I did this after his leg breaking, I studied what he could do and what he does now and the difference is very clear, even if nerfed he still has some very good tricks bellow the sleeve, and his most optimal antics require both very precise timings and awareness to what is happening.

But more important than anything else for anyone wanting to play Kain... You live and die by Schwarze Lanze, Schwarze Lanze is your best friend when you are down, your comfort food when tired of life, your bottle of Tequila after your soccer team loses and is eliminated off the tournament, Schwarze Lanze is the sole reason Kain is viable even with the nerfs, I just wish my brain connected the dots that no Krauser is ever safe to Tomahawk if Schwarze Lanze was on lock, and this move is the sole reason I learn Charge storing even if I stopped using it since I was dropping too many combos.

Oh yeah, Schwarze Rondo was also very cool, learning the orb set ups and watching my opponent be blown up by the mine was very damn fun, just hope they do a tiny ini bity reverse on Kain, Making his close HK on Counter push a tiny bit less so I don't need to practice micro steps to combo it into close HP.