So having your opponents best option just being block isnt the most effective way to establish katame. Ive gone through this many times myself and ive been the victim of superior katame as well. I faced a Ragna a couple weeks ago and whenever i found myself in the corner (which was often) the player would stay in this specific range from me. This "rainbow" lile Faith called it. He would pressure me but leave gaps between his blockstrings (like whiff 2B and 2C) to give me enough time to try to come up with an option ro deal with being in the corner. 8/10 i would make the wrong decision, either being CH, anti aired, or air thrown. Whenever i was in the corner i felt hopeless. Im coming to learn constant pressure is really not the way to go. Because they would sit and block my strings and escape because my spacing was poor. With Ky, ive been applying some decent katame but its far from polished.
So inducing certain decision making and capatalizing on their decisions and keeping them blocking/where they are is the essence of katame right?