Well if you want to beat a noel player you have to out space/ camp her. She has a tough time fighting against any character who can out space/camp her. Yeah she has her lil optic barrel move which is easy to avoid.
When i fight a Noel player i use my drive a lot to poke at her and run away. I play hit and run versus Noel. 4d j.4d d and j.d will help you a lot in this fight. After hitting them with a bunch of drives attacks and heavy swearing the Noel will then try to rush you down. This is where things get kinda tricky.
Now your like yay Noel is in close to me its going to be like Christmas WRONG!!! If you are playing people who are not that good you will get drive spammed and you more than likely will lose your temper, but dont fear theres a way to get around that. Now Noel is hella unsafe cuz after she does her drives she has to reload her gun, so this is where you 2a, 5a, 5b, d, or if your close grab, but remember there are attacks where you dont want to poke out of which is Spring raid if im right, well the gun spins around and pulls you in closer to her. Do not try to punish off of this attack because you will be eating bullets because that move is hella safe.
Now when playing players without a lot of exp you will see see 2d a great deal which is a overhaed and all buttons as in (a,b,c,d) lead into some unsfae move where there are relaod frames so punish after that.
I think i hit most of the problems