Fuck you, Karin player who rq after losing to me THREE TIMES LAST NIGHT. YOU HAD A 1 GAME WIN STREAK. Did you really need to quit? Day 11 of me becoming prejudiced against Karin players.
So after a long set in a lounge with a really good Bison player (he's ultra silver, and im about 100 points off) I've come to a few conclusions about him:
His damage is absolutely disgusting. He has one of the easiest confirmable combos into knockdown imaginable with st.mp cr.mp qcb+p, and it's safe on block, and plenty of incredibly damaging combos besides.
His meaty (and oki game in general) is completely unparalleled. Unless you have a strike invincible reversal (Laura players know this feel) you are FUCKED on wakeup. Either you push a button and get meaty knee'd and eat a 300+ damage combo, or the better option: you get thrown. At least then you can get up because of the range.
They took out invincible backdashing and gave it to bisons forward dash. Now I know it's not exactly the same but what the fuck man....no seriously what the fuck? You can do some ludicrous shenanigans with that forward dash blowing up normals/whiff-unsafe specials. So they gave Bison a walk speed that makes a turtle look quick but then he activates v-trigger. Hope you like dealing with mach-10 teleports everywhere and guessing.
Basically his only faults that I can find are: His walk speed is atrocious, not that it particularly matters because his normals have crazy range whereas a lot of characters feel like they're playing with T-Rex arms. And his biggest one: His anti-air game is actually pretty garbage. He has a few things he can do on an unsafe jump in, but jumping in his face is really not THAT bad of an idea. Be ready for him to go air-to-air and have a quick button ready (because he has two GODLIKE air to air options).
Thus ends my rant on the Dictator Great Satan. Anyone wanna jump in and add/refute what I've gleaned?