GokaiRed

You're right, I guess I should've said weak-ER neutral game. j.P IS pretty godlike with it being 4 frames, chainable as fuck and plus on block but that short range leaves a bit to be desired (can't have it both ways, right? lol). I usually play this matchup with S equipped and only the HS deployed, so my sword control is pretty limited by the cool down and start up of j.2HS and 6HS at least for now as I don't have a great concept of locking opponents down with normals in between sword swipes.

I had been led to believe this matchup was close to 5/5 or at least momentum based, but I had to wonder about this matchup after playing my roommate and then going right into some online matches afterward against another rando Faust. He seems to have a good number of ways to keep Rammy guessing, or at least me anyway and that's when I noticed I was at a greater disadvantage; like someone else mentioned about going in on him it's almost as if I had a better chance when I could get into a rushdown state and sort of fluster Faust rather than trying to counter poke/whiff punish. A lot of this probably speaks to my inexperience at the game as a whole though, gotta break a lot of Street Fighter habits that I've had for some years. I don't do enough basic shit that I should be doing like her 2D Dauro punish and stuff like that; her weak neutral game combined with my overall shitty GG tech allow my roommate to item mash out of a lot of shit.