@Mike_Z for filia jhk, is it that you think it still does too much, and you rather it either be a crossup tool OR a high (but not both)? I'm genuinely curious. The way
I look at these experiments is that by giving her midscreen meterless grab conversions and a crossup (with red bounce), and taking away the high property, you're seeking to balance the character a little more. But the way I see it is that while she becomes a better battery (filia grab always seems like it gives a ton of meter by itself) from being able to combo from grab midscreen and continue into new mixup (which you can still do with select assists even in retail), she loses out on extra high pressure from blockstrings like iad jlp jlk jhk, loses out on a good damaging opener (in more instances than just crossing up), and obviously a great instant overhead. Also, giving jhk red bounce gives her like one true crossup setup higher in the air (to my knowledge.) She can do other crossup setups and even if they get hit upbacking with blue bounce version not everyone techs it, leading to what is essentially what we have in the beta anyways. And if they did tech it they either guessed you would go for crossup high and upback+tech to get out of pressure (
@dekillsage ) or were mashing. First case is beat by basic low, second by burst bait/uncombo and block. Throw loses to both those things as well, so giving her a midscreen grab conversion seems a little moot.
Filia gets her big damage from being a bully until you get them to a corner so you get a true high/low/throw where her high gives you the damage. This is what makes blocking her in the corner so scary. By removing the damaging overhead starter at this point now, while she can still go high, it is not as fast, and scales her first three hits more (having to do iad any aerial normal into jhk instead of things like jhk adc jmp jhk for starters. This damages her pressure game as well seeing as how you have to use your air dash to go high right away), leading to less real soviet damage. If I HAD to choose between crossup jHk and overhead jhk, I would choose overhead.
If anyone else has thoughts or reasoning these new changes are better for her please enlighten me. This is just how I see these changes.