I feel kinda bad that losing to Sonic on his stream after he showed me a bunch of new things I've never seen before is causing a lot of this talk to come up. While I might not be exactly on his level anymore, the score was 21-15, which was very similar to how all our sets in the past have been in either players favor.
Please keep this in mind, he played against us as a Solo. That helped him a lot when it came to compensating for his damage output, and being able to heal let him get away with a lot more than he would have otherwise. The only thing that I thought was actual bullshit was being able to snap and drag the point back towards him, because I thought the idea of snapping was gaining health in exchange for not killing the point. On top of this solos also have the double snap option, which pretty much gives them just that, but that's a bit different so if you were thinking that don't bring it up.
You have to understand that while Fukua is much more dynamic and has a lot of new tools to pressure the opponent/reset them, a lot of the reset starters do ultimately result in her getting low damage. If a shadow hits me as a starter, she can loop me in her vortex, but her ultimate damage output from it is so low that she would have to reset me 3-5 times depending on each starters. Compare that to everyone else's 2-3.
I don't think any of you guys remember how much better Fukua was in retail, which makes me sad. Her pressure was way more oppressive, her damage output on every starter was good, her reset game was so simple yet killed you in 2 reps, and her max undizzy damage output reset game also killed you ridiculously fast. She had the best don't breathe level 3 in the game, a super on block that was extra difficult to punish, an amazing assist, way better stage control tools that she could combo off of. On top of that it was so boring that no one would want to play the game with her around in a few months, and I'm pretty confident in that belief...
There is a lot of counterplay vs betakua. You can hit the shadows, her drill to fireball super is extra unsafe vs pb, she still has her problems from retail, there is a lot of call outs you can do vs her pressure, and there is a lot of pushblock timings we need to learn and improve on. While I do think she is amazing I don't think she's the same beast she used to be, and I had a lot of fun fighting against Sonic's Fukua.