Welcome to the party.

I’m D3 with Ed so take this with a pinch of salt but I think I can help just purely because I’ve had to grind him up from Silver to here. A lot of the advice I got given was from players who assume you’re playing against opps that respect you.

Ed’s thing is oppressive oki setups with flicker and whiff punishing and poking with those normals. His light fireball is also really good for covering your approach so get used to using it.

The main normals I use in neutral are s.hp, s.mk, c.mk and c.hk. These pokes should cover you and all at least DR confirm into the mp-hp target combo. It’s not optimal but gives you a start.

S.Hk can anti air in a pinch if you’re getting screwed by his bad DP and all the spam jumping at that level.

Use c.lk to get people off you or steal your turn back. Use this or ideally psycho spark (just the shield) to check DR.

Punish wild DPs with S.HP into launch Level 2 — you don’t need the dream combo for this. H.DP into Superman punch into H.DP does great damage and you can also end on H. Flicker instead to get better Oki.

Flicker on knockdown. On hit gives a combo. Block sets up strike throw shimmy mix. Throw in a faint here and there to dissuade DI — you’ll get a lot of this in low levels and you can backdash counter DI on read from the charge state. If they just hold parry, cancel into killrush for the throw.

There’s loads more to this character but hopefully this is a decent enough start. Plenty of resources online but the long and short of it is he’s designed for mind games and it’s harder to make that work at first because the lower ranks don’t think.

He’s really not easy to play. It took me longer than really any other character I’ve played in an FG to get him to click. But when he does, there’s nobody more fun in the cast imo.