Ran him in my team yesterday online and he was so much fun, even though I felt like a complete ass towards my opponent with my style of play lol.
I know ppl prefer him 2nd or 3rd because of how good he is with meter but I found him to be a fantastic battery, doing extremely well while mostly spending meter on the occasional EX fireball. My Clark would come in 2nd pretty much loaded every time to the teeth with meter. It was kinda funny in the sense that my first character was an annoying keep away style ("let me out! let me out!") while the 2nd kept trying to get in all the time ("let me in! let me in!"), must've messed with the opponent's heads.
That being said, what's the best way to get a good Germinal off during a Sans Culotte combo? I can only barely justify doing Sans Culotte in the first place. Best damage I can get is 375 cause I have awful execution. Why would I risk dropping a long combo that is hella spacing dependent when I can just EX Pluivose from anything? Or am I simply just thinking wrong? Teach me, guide me.
Execution is the barrier but if you get past it that is where Sans Culotte's true power comes into play since you can go straight from it into HD and back into another Sans Culotte if you want. Its a very powerful but at the same time in no way easy, and so abusable, tool.
One of the big advantages of this super is how invincible it seems to be so a great get off me move, not to mention I'd rather mistime this in a combo in front of the opponent's face than a QCF QCF+K.
I'm no execution specialist so since taking him up yesterday, and doing suprisingly well online, I've been thinking about how to use this super with minimal effort. The thing about it is that it starts to scale heavily the more you go so even if you did Germinal at the end it would do barely any damage. But if you look at Germinal's damage right after activation then it actually isn't that bad.
So going by what I saw in a vid I think the bnb combo I will use after Sans Culotte is activated is:
Nivose, b+D, Germinal Caprice > Nivose, b+D, Germinal Caprice > Germinal for the finish
Iirc this did pretty solid damage since little scaling takes place (more than the kick super) and doesn't seem to be very execution heavy (gonna try it when I get home).