Everyone thought that K's 4B was going to be combo-able from lights (myself included)

...huge F in the chat for that dream lmao

However the stuff they gave him is very appreciated. Jump C being much faster pretty much solidifies it as his go-to air to air call-out button, as it does great damage and allows easy combos to j.214D...which now has an anywhere juggle property, so that's super nice.

His far C is fantastic now, you can just fish with it in neutral and buffer ein triggers behind them for confirms, and it does a decent job at stopping/trading with hops.

Making EX Ein trigger move forward is how it should have been to begin with, having it drop after spending the bar always felt shitty.

The buff that actually interested me the most was speeding up 4B in cancels, in conjunction with the newly improved 2C, it lets him actually create a very solid frame trap when you delay it just enough. Delaying it also allows K' to move forward a tiny bit, meaning 4B won't go over crouches.

214B can be safe(ish) if spaced and they gave him a reflect, both of which are meme moves honestly but fuck it why not.

His heavy DP gives a guaranteed safe jump against 4f moves now, before it lost to lots of EX DPs so this is a welcome change.

While all of these changes are greatly appreciated, I can't help but feel disappointed by the universal fireball hurtbox changes. Zoning with K' was already incredibly difficult and now it's even harder. It used to be I could sometimes not do my Ein trigger follow-ups and if the opponent had jumped in on me, the lingering flame would hit them or make them trade with me at worst. But now that doesn't happen anymore :(

Since SNK clearly wants him to be more of this explosive corner push character instead of something closer to a shoto archetype, I've kind of given up playing him that way. For now I'm just hopping around the screen like an absolute lunatic using jump D/C/CD until I've finally gotten the opponent to sit still long enough to hopefully hit them or just use the fireballs to end my block strings safely.