#It is dangerous to ask me about actual ggst meta though cause I am a whiner LOL

[arashi-no-saxlphone]

Damn, my man Axl truly has not a single plus ground button to his name, that is fucked.

LMAO it's like, yes, that's how it should be by nature of "Zoner man who's normals cover actually the whole fucking screen" but like...

Seriously? Not even c.S? Even Testament's c.S is +1 man throw me a bone! (sure minus c.S let's you tick throw with it but... 5K and 2K already do that just fine...)

In ALL honesty I get why they did it the way they did and yes to a degree I do understand... except on 6H. I've complained about this before but why is every other slow overhead like that in the game +2 and mine is -3. Be so serious. Like Axl is fine and I get why he's made the way he is and my only two REAL complaints are

c.S should be +1 - I don't think that's insane to ask for. c.S is slow and unreliable and not even active enough to cover backdash after a Safejump- you gotta 5K instead.

Rensen 8 (the pull in) needs to be consistent on block. I'm not even asking for plus frames, just stop fucking lying to me/making me guess ON MY OWN RPS. Why is the frame advantage "variable based on where they blocked, if they FD'd, if mercury is in retrograde-" STOP. STOP IT! Make it consistently +2 or make it consistently -6 morbillion I don't care just please for the love of god why I am the one getting mixed for hitting my own damn move.

And really only Rensen 8 actually bothers me that bad - I'll live with -1 c.S the damn thing DOES gatling into like, every other normal lmao. And it's not like they haven't been paying attention to where Axl's problems lie - the Rainwater changes and Whistling Wind are clear examples of that and they did WONDERS for him/gen. Seriously, Wind alone saved so many bad matchups. Rainwater improved his routing and also gave him a way to stop people from just dashblocking until he lost lol (I mean shit, +3 on block? Sol Badguy's blushing)... Whistling Wind also gave him an actual good cancel from 2H so you don't have to gamble on Snail and then die. Oh! And can't forget the rensen changes - that pushback on block is like you got t-boned at an intersection now LOL. Also being able to get Mantis off of delayed Cherry is huge... an ACTUAL way to reset Oki with a HKD and go for another Rensen RPS... thank you Daisuke, you DO care!!

Axl is as they made him, and he's good! I see the vision! I just don't always agree with all of it LOL

As an aside he DOES have one way to make a normal plus off the top of my head - if you meaty with 6H it will be slightly plus! (this is not a good option but hey if people don't know about it you might get a 5K > TKB if they try and mash out of it)

Oh and in closing shoutout to Faust - our fellow "-1 c.S for no fucking reason" I believe it's actually just us two with minus close slashes haha