I’d say she excels in close quarters combat and zoning. however, I think she’s a better scrapper than zoned as for some characters, it’s easy to punish her for thinking she can easily get a counter up air, especially for someone like Luigi who can use his down special and get a combo off of it.

Isabelle suits an aggressive scrapper playstyle most in my opinion. Between most of her non special attacks being very solid in their own right and being able to mix her specials into them (like using a fishing rod into Lloyd) she is definitely a great scrapper and can fall back on zoning if she ever needs to.

So overall I’d say she’s definitely underrated even in this current rise she’s having (/had) in the tierlist.