#I don't think I strictly speaking need a secondary because gio is strong and none of her annoying matchups are truly terrible

[doedipus]

aba is actually really interesting to me

a) I like the character a lot. she's probably my fave +r character, and it's great that she's going to be in a game I actually want to play mostly intact. she's definitely a character I could go insane about in the same way I have about gio/ram/elphelt.

I've also wanted to try learning a resource character for a while, but none of the existing ones appeal to me (read: they're men)

b) I was considering pivoting to elphelt because she got easy meterless high/low and that was something I was frustrated about gio not having. however, after actually trying her I realized that I liked the strike/throw archetype gamplay loop of scrounge for 50 meter doing mostly safe stagger pressure -> metered overhead for a guaranteed big conversion better than the high/low character loop of scrounge for 50 meter doing unreactable but interruptible low reward mixups -> guaranteed big conversion.

aba seems like she'll be closer to the former, which makes me more eager to try her out. she's also really fucking fast in jealousy mode and has a stepdash in regular mode, which seems like it'd be less of an adjustment going to/from gio