Why?
Bayman/Leon suffer with range, and neither of them takes out wake up kicks like Rachel can. She still has her stomp set up, and blender/vortex situations. Her mobility is pretty insane with her KBD and wave dashes. Only thing Bayman has that Rachel don't is the tank roll (which isn't that evasive), and Parries (which isn't close to being Gen Fu or Lei Fang status). This doesn't really tell me much, except Bayman/or Leon may have one thing they can do better than Rachel, while Rachel has like 5 things she can do better.
Rachel has better walk speed and superior Korean Back Dash than every other Super Heavyweight (her KBD is one of the best period). She has deeper stuns in threshold, tracking, a strong blender, and controls wake ups easily because her stomp is a solid tool. She has solid mix up in threshold, she has more buttons at range than other Super Heavyweights. And she certainly has an easier time getting her damage. Her air throw has a lot of range.
A solid Rachel hitting you is a lot scarier than a Bayman or Leon ever will be when this character has ways to keep her momentum a lot better than most.
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All im seeing is a bunch of glorifying Rachel's tools while downplaying/ignoring Leon/Baymans tools. Im nowhere near as knowledgeable about Bayman but as far as Leon goes I still don't buy that shes stronger than him. better walking speed and backdashing isn't enough to put her in more advantageous matchups over the tools he has over her especially since they both rely heavily on cqc where Leon clearly beats her out.
She has no easier a time getting damage than Leon who has multiple NH launchers, guaranteed launchers from sitdowns, a slew of 2in1's that either launch or puts opponents in deep lift stuns. his chargeable cb which gives him 2hit cb setups or a high damage hit throw launcher that leads to his air throw. vastly superior guardbreaks that give him +3 through +14 advantage where as rachels gives her a worthless +1 at most, more damaging throws than her with his highest damaging one being i10 along with better OHs that still net decent damage on NH where rachels do no damage and only guarantee anything on CH/HCH, an i16 high crushing sitdown stun which guarantees his 7p which is unstaggerable and forces a must hold situation where leon is free to do whatever he wants, his 3k which gives him guaranteed launch on opponents in crouch status making people think twice about randomly low holding against him. lastly his chargeable strings keep opponents guessing and adds another layer to his mixup potential. Rachel hitting you being a lot more scary than Leon hitting you is laughable. Im not even going to go into what hes capable of in certain stages with breakable objects since everyone and their mama already knows.
Her vortex/stomp while good is still nowhere near as scary and useful as it was pre-nerf since she is now at a huge risk if it whiffs and even then both Leon and Bayman have their ground grapples to keep opponents from relying on wake up kicks forcing them to tech on knockdown too. not to mention both Bayman and Leon's special wake up OH's beat out rachels stomp when bayman's feet faces her or Leon's head faces her limiting her setups for it
