Oh, don’t get me wrong! I share your opnion regarding Kan-Ra’s role. He is keep away zoner that can lock out his opponent quite well in certain match ups with swarms and shadow spike. His tools are nearly useless in other match ups or against certain play styles.
Are you sure Keits said that he is a zoner? because:
It’s kinda obvious now, that the devs don’t really know what he is themselves. I don’t even blame them because they created a character that is very hard to balance. Right now his playstyle is quite different than his S2 version. You can’t just go in and “trap” your opponent into frame traps anymore. You have to use your keep away tools to frustrade your opponent into doing mistakes. But that playstyle doesn’t really work when you are at a big disadvantage at the beginning of a match and when half the cast doesn’t care about your zoning and you have to react to stupid things like everybody else.
The grappling part doesn’t work that well neither at this moment. Risk/reward is just bad on ground cluch. And clutch is very reactable. The bugged clutch damage at the beginning of S3 was awesome. I miss it…
I hope that they gonna play around with his moves and balance after EVO. But as I said, they have to be very careful with his balance because the Raam match up is already 8-2 IMO.
Offtopic: This topic is basically a copy of Sleeps thread. Can a mod please put them together??