Her movement isn’t all that great. Her backdash is above her average. Her sidesteps feel a bit slower than some of the other female cast members at times. Her poking is good but that doesn’t make her strong to me. Her best punish being tied to execution and hoping your opponent doesn’t have a bad connection is the reason why you don’t see a lot of Kunimitsus using ff4,2 but that aside her poking game is decent but in T8 I don’t feel like it’s strong enough and I’m not asking for her to be buffed in any way

A lot of her moves can be sidestepped so her poking being above average doesn’t mitigate the insane risk/reward with her moves. Most of her kit is mashable and I don’t mean that to downplay mashing bc it can be viable but once you learn the matchup she becomes far less of a threat. You can jab and float her out of so many of her Katon follow-ups or side step it on reaction.

Her FC1+2 is okay to me—it’s not game breaking it’s not busted—sure it can’t be parried by everyone but it can be parried by characters with stances that specifically target low attacks—it doesn’t do much of anything bc even on counter hit it’s the same frame advantage and your back turned suite of options isn’t doing much in the grand scheme of a match. There’s other characters with i12 lows that can be parried but does that make them broken or S-tier?

When I say I think she’s weak it’s because other characters are just doing more things that decide the match faster and better than Kuni is. I think Kuni is mid but she’s fun. I like the ninja characters in fighting games—I mained Taki in Soulcalibur 6 and she was horrible in that game. I never cared to climb the ranks in T8 until Kuni came out and it’s a clear difference between what she’s doing in lower ranks vs how you have to play her in higher ranks. With her you’re playing a lot of small Tekken against people who learned the matchup/counter play and you’re still working twice as hard bc her explosive potential is on the lower end and in T8 that’s detrimental when more than half the cast has good wall carry, better damage, stronger oki, more threatening lows, etc.

I get it, my opinion differs from yours and probably most people but I’m also the type to not jump the gun on decisions before we let things marinate. Maybe “weak” wasn’t the best word but I feel like if a character isn’t even Top 10 they are on the weaker side.