I donno, I thought his 5B and far 5C were pretty boss if you spaced them right..
Also, with a shield on you're almost guaranteed to be able to walk into poking range, pretty freely..
I only played it the first day it came out, so I'm sure there's ways of dealing with all that, but, I don't think it's too terrible.
And his guard cancel is not that easily baited.. I mean, if you mashed it everytime you blocked anything, yeah, but, if you use it like Baiken counters, it's pretty good.
I donno though, I don't really like the game, so I only experimented for like a day.