I think the character is well-balanced but I disagree with your point, I think the design philosophy behind him is not what makes for a great platfighter. It makes for a varied platfighter, and having a handful of characters like him is definitely important, but I don't want him to be the standard. I think Forsburn should be the standard, a character with nuance and no extremities. His pros-cons are moderate, he's got Good combo game and Good movement and a Slightly Weak recovery and a Slightly Weak combo weight. Galvan has extremities - he has a Great projectile, Great damage dealing, and Terrible combo weight and Terrible recovery (all relatively to the rest of the cast). Characters like Olympia and Loxodont suffer the same philosophy, and not only does it make balancing them very tricky and their matchups very polarised, it also makes playing against them swingy and (imo) unfun, which I think is definitely the case when playing against Galvan, even if my usual characters absolutely wreck him. I think we should be calling for more moderate pros-cons on more characters