BFM

I honestly never noticed it, I presume that it could be valuable to beat mashing on 6DB but this was probably super lucky and it will be unusable for some reason. And about 5DC, it really looks to be easier to follow on counter hit, not that it happens often to me but still a good thing.

http://youtu.be/1e98sEB951M?t=1h48m32s Does 6DA have some kind of invulnerability now ?

Outside of losing his great oki I really don't see any major changes. 28C replaced B orb in corner combos so that's "okey" I guess. Personally I really don't like what they do with effects of moves like 2DA bounce or 6C counter hit ( it looks shitty ), it's like how they changed his grab from 1.0 to 1.1 - it was unnecessary and looks kinda awkward.

It's obviously bad trade-off. Now you have to spend 25 heat to get what you could get for free ( perhaps more but still ) whereas before if you spend heat for CT you got a lot more damage. Beside I personally don't see too much use in B orb as of 2.0 but that's just an opinion. Canceling drives into (4)1236 is fine I guess. Kagura can now actually run and there is 6DC -> 5DB BUT we still don't know nothing about bounce on 2DA and 6DA still doesn't look like anything useful ( now it's not even combo fodder anymore ) so my guess is that, knowing ASW, it will be another trade-off rather than buff.

If this changes are final and there won't be any new, more pleasant surprises, I'm afraid that Kagura will lose almost everything that made playing him worthwhile. I mean they butchered his oki, nerfed his other overhead and probably removed some of his corner combos ( which will in turn kill his corner damage ). They make his dash faster, but that doesn't change the fact that his neutral is garbage and now it will be even harder to win by throwing opponent into corner and finish him quickly. The only nerf that I actually understand is change to his flash kick, it was to good and everybody knew it ( beside it looks cool now ).

Well, if gatling drive moves into CT is true, then there is possibility that B orb can be changet with it. But again that is not meterless option, so without CT damage can be dramatically lowered. To be honest I really don't know where they are going with this, first they took out mixup with 6A nerf, now they took out fafnir and possibly damage. It looks like they think that Kagura is too good, which is kinda bullshit.

I think it would be neat, if we could throw both types of B orb. But if it will be only that new one, then won't there be a problem with combo routes in corner ?