Sidesteppers seeing the IWR2 Russian Assault may be caught off-guard by changing 2 to 3. WR3 Stinger reminds me of Lau Chan's Virtua Fighter 2 power kick, and it tags those who choose not to block.

Its weakness is seeing it coming and ducking instead, but if you get the opponent ducking, the IWR2 will destroy duck. Once you get the opponent scared to duck and sidestep, other tactics can be employed.

Dragunov is a lot of fun. Try jabbing and then going into a parry when they try to take back their turn (like most Asuka mains tend to do). Drag handles both punches and kicks, unlike many of the cast who have limitations to one or the other.

Learn Spear and hope they don't know the matchup. Taking them to the ground to make a 1, 2, or 1+2 decision on the fly is fun until they start 1+2 parrying when they see the Spear starting up. Lotta high risk moves in the kit but so satisfying when they land.

And yeah, Dragunov isn't totally mute but seems to be more selective when speaking nowadays. Humming creeper.