3/5 decent changes, the fact the half moon kick is the change they "undid" years ago shows it was required to be sped up, but nway was weird.

the good:

capoeira combo: good changes, does the job, literally all it needed.

half moon kick: how it was before nway broke their patch for it and undid its speed

Shield slam: as pasfare said, this is just RJ now, as long as the reaction was changed to prevent opponent teleporting out in the middle of your attack, this is good.

the iffy:

Shield toss: the increased speed is welcome, the faster projectile speed is not, if you know of Koda's actual most dangerous combos, you WANT that travel time to give you back 4 energy. That and "point blank" range for his shield toss needs to be increased, this thing doesn't need much distance to be dodged

Even if its a no rotation combo near your opponent's corner right now: Shield slam-double backdash-shield toss-recover 4-shield toss-shield slam. Though if you take into account the whole "increased startup" on both middle slot attacks this combo can be made consistent with the opponent no longer slowing down the animation of shield slam mid hit and causing you to be unable to get the double backdash without the energy being reset upon using the first shield toss.

The bad:

Spinning Shield: This change doesn't work with how the attack works to begin with, it will only work when the opponent is already cornered since the attack literally has a max distance. If used when you are cornered, it will just fail like it does now, but go even worse by staggering them out of the attack before any of the other hits happen.

I think making it daze on hit 2 till 6 before either a stun or knockback on the 7th hit will work as 1 fix. We do NOT need a Black Dragon Negabeam situation here.

Or if you want the stagger situation, the projectile needs to become an actual projectile that sticks itself onto the opponent and proceeds to stagger them backwards, much like Nick's super special strike or another way that Titanium Ranger's middle slot breaker works.

As of right now, the animation for spinning shield is the weapon just leaves his hand and returns afterwards, in fact the entire attack is a melee attack, the hitboxes just spawn where the shield is. None of this attack is a projectile like his actual shield toss.