IvyFanboy
[11] Champion
Watch for Soraky. He may not think it to the same degree, but his Zero is phenomenal. If he gets his other 2 characters down and a few match ups, he'll be a real threat at EVO. I'mma go out on a limb and say Soraky is better than Marn's Zero in a 1 on 1 based on what I've seen in person. There might be live streams of him at our local tournaments. His big thing is to create a pressure series involving multiple cross ups in the corner, then after his combo he snaps you out and forces the new character to endure the same pressure, rinse and repeat. It's stupid hard to block all that.I don't agree with the air Theory. Zero now has Raikousen instant cancel medium command air dash to instantly follow his lightning bolt to charge in. Super jumps to close are met with heavy raikousen cancel. Nobody is using these right now but from what i have experienced in tourney's lots of the characters you name do get beaten by insta lightning cancels. Its basically a horizontal long range attack in mid air that you can follow with what you want. Like i said i really like the dash since you dash behind the lightning instead of in front of it. Anyway IMO there is no really good zero right now. Everybody is obsessed with damage and all but iv'e yet to see Zero's with really crafty mix ups. At least i think mine are more on point then what i'm seeing right now.
But I agree. I've seen a lot of Zero's and not a lot of results. As good as he is, I feel people try to use him as a tier crutch like Wolverine for vanilla, but you can't. Zero has some derpy stuff, but it takes skill to put it all together once your opponent stops getting destroyed by j.C.