>most of the time I don't convert for max damage, and that
>holds me back a lot as Ken. his damage conversion off
>v-trigger/run is ridiculous but I'm often late on the
>reaction.
>
>Birdie's damage is scary tho. I hate playing neutral against
>him because he's got long pokes and EX dolphin dive hurts like
>hell. Ken has got to push him into the corner where Birdie is
>weak on wake-up and has to take all the Ken mix-ups for free.

Yeah, chili pepper fat boi Birdie is straight up evil. If someone throws out one lazy poke, it is curtains if I 'read' it.

I've been working on walking forward/not giving away space cuz yeah, birdie in a corner is a dead birdie vs most decent players. Every now and then I still find myself on that rope-a-dope. The corner game was so much less damaging in 4 that you could live in the corner and still be alright vs a chunk of the cast.