More random thoughts:
King: I don't like her. Her projectiles are good but I feel like I have to spam them all the time with her, and for whatever reason I can't get her slide out consistently, and I think she has the slowest sweep in the game. Not saying she's bad, but she has a tough time getting in and consequentially getting them off of her. Just my two cents.
Ryo and Robert: If I mained Shoto's I'd use them for sure. But I don't because I find them boring and horribly overused by scrubs
. I'd say either him or Robert are the best. Robert has every tool available to him; a command grab (EX too), a Dive, projectile super, etc. Ryo is different, he's like Clark in that he has a tool specific to him that no other character has and radically changes how to play against him. Clark's B Sab not only autoguards but gives him amazingly good tick throw options that no other character has. Just the same with Ryo's parries, they're damn good and make him scary as shit if the other guy is good at it.
Shen: Very easy neomax combos. Good overall character, I just have a hard time getting in with him.
Kim: I really like him. Just wish his QCB+kick was safe or perhaps easier to combo afterwards. Really good pressure with him. Very easy to pick up. Another thing I wish he had were his rekka's from 2002 and XI.
Netcode varies wildly. I played 3 guys. One Green, pretty good, he just loved doing Mai's Neomax. The other two were Yellow and one was 'okay' the other was okay for the first match and then lagged hardcore for the rest of the matches. I honestly think some of these guys with Yellow connections fully know that it's laggy and just want to troll by running away and spamming projectile and random super. I even had one guy empty jump over me, he's right next to me, so I go to grab, and he mashes out crLKx3 with Kula and it hits... Need that patch.