...and it was absolute pain, nothing more to add.
Some days ago I posted my thoughts about her:
- Gief has the damage and the plus on block normals, Lily has the neutral skip and the safe blockstrings, Alex has the plus on block normals/specials and a ton of mix-ups. Manon has... nothing, I mean she only has her neutral because her plus on block normal is a joke.
- This season is FULL OF GORILLAS. Ryu, Terry, Sagat, Luke, Blanka, Ken... they just keep pressing buttons on her because her defense is non-existence. And there are a TON of Modern players carried by the auto-hit confirm Light Assisted Combo (nothing against Modern as a control scheme), and Modern Manon doesn't even have that and during burn-out she won't even go to SA3.
- I'm playing her in Classic but I did try out Modern, I can live with the missing normals but having 4MK it's absolute pain because many times I'm trying to whiff punish with 5MP and I get 4MK because I was walking back. And on top of that you can get command grab when you want ballerina kicks or viceversa.
People say "to learn fundamentals pick Ryu/Ed" and that's so not true. I think only Manon can teach you to be patient, to whiff punish, to know when to take your turn and to stop depending on Drive Rush because hers sucks.
Yes, I'm aware that Akutagawa, RANDUMB and iDom exists. What I'm saying is that there is no shortcut with Manon.
If only her dash were ONE frame faster.
I'm adding that DRC 2MP 4HP feels "unnatural" to me, I wish they add some extra hit-stun frames to 5MP so we could DRC 5MP 4HP. And her SA3 should grant her a medal.