I love this f'ing patch so much and they nerfed my new main a little (Maxi). Imo none of those nerfs are anything significant besides lowering the chances of clean hit on his stuff which happened quite often. My old main Pyrrha is still the same :)
Thank the lord for general guard break bullshit nerfs (especially Leixia). I need to see Natsu's shortened freezes in person like her a+b into 1a to see if the combo is actually gimped or not but I love the nerf on her 6a+b 1st hit no longer ch'ing. That move had an invisible SC4 Ivy CL B like hitbox and caught backstep a lot.
Viola is entering my list if usable characters post MLG after seeing traces tech and her buffs here for sure.
Xiba you were garbage to me anyway and don't really care.
Two thumbs up Namco! Can't wait to see what character people will complain about next.
I think aside from the controversial ones, Xiba also got hit very hard with the nerf bat. He actually needs to play a poke game now, rather than a string game.