eh i'm sure your litchi is better than my total of 2 hours experience makoto. mashin dem shoryu's son. I'll run my xbl edition lagna the bloodedge against her and we can have us a grand ole time o_o
readability is just hmm...it's like sort of taking the short first round to gauge what your opponent does in the first round against your normal stuff and taking it a step further...tl;dr version: dat yomi.
i understand the wanting to play a person but trust me no two bangs or in my case no two rachels(yeah i know a couple of god tier rachels) are the same, my buddy gil and i have yomi set to like level 9001 in our matches but against his buddy i have yomi level 1 or 2 since i don't play him too often, when you play a against a certain person for long enough you start seeing the matchup as against them as opposed to against the character which is detrimental. I mean shit I played cheebz sol long enough to know he's read past my kabari zoning to bandit bringer over that shit, so instead of kabari-ing i get into the situation he remembers and wait for him to expect the claw on wake up, after that i punish it. will i do that against another sol that does that? maybe. will it be as effective? probably not, since i'm already used to cheebz sol. It's harder to seperate learning the matchup against a player from learning the matchup against the character. cuz i mean anthony lost to my haku when i pulled a wake up zantetsu. shit was unsafe. shit was so telegraphed and punishable. but he fell for it because he thought " there's no way in hell he's gonna do something unsafe."
in other words I like playing a variety of people because it helps me see how certain characters get used in a diverse way, i.e. I bust out that wild haku style when my opponent is starting to read my "sheathed" haku style, whereas my buddy skeletal plays haku by the book with gdlk execution. plus it helps me kick up my yomi in a game i need more yomi in.(i.e. i figure shit out in the first round like i should, then i bring that salty runback out if i didn't manage to lame out the victory in the first one)
speaking of which I get lame out victories more in bb o_o it's weird seeing how desperate people get once they hear that "look at time" announce.
tl;dr version: I like playing more people, helps me learn what my own haku style can do against certain matchups rather than reading about them. and gives me a sort of "think on my feet" style of learning which is honestly what i remember most during tourney matches.
edit: gdlk kamui footage. i played some arcana with cheebz and jet last week.
and daemon bride...we need to play that somehow.
bromantic edit: If i go to the meetup on saturday I'll tell you about my gdlk theories for getting past readability/reading your opponent more. it's mostly shit i picked up from my 3S and GGX-X2AC days.