K' is still good but not damn good, characters like Kyo, Kula etc can take him on pretty well. So yeah, he's very much beatable.
Still zero Kim love
These two sentences are so right.
I think K' and Kula are being so used just because they are standard and safe characters (shotos) and probably because people have missed them, but I don't see anything so special with them. Yes, they are fast, but there are other fast characters in the game (Athena, for example. When I see her Technical Ref. vid i thought "oh my, Athena is so deadly now!", but nobody is using her). They take damage and have good combos, ok, but they are not the only ones.... I think in arcades people select safe characters, but I'm sure that other characters forgot by players (like Kim, Leona, Mai, Vice, Joe, Ralf, Terry, Ryo, Athena) are the same good as k' and kula. Is the same thing with Elizabeth and Mature, people select Liz for her DM combo. It's useful, and safe, but besides that move there's anything special with her, and the same for Mature. Besides her infinite, Mature is not a super powerful character. I'm not saying she's bad (she is one of my mains and i love her), I'm saying she is "like the others". I just have seen two characters really a bit overpowered so far, Kyo and Raiden. And I think Iori, Andy and Robert are very good too, but not overpowered. For the rest I think they have the same level, so this why I think the game is well balanced.
Note that there's no Elizabeth at any of these vids.
One month has passed since game's release date. Let's see if arcade players start to use more variety of characters now.
I'm talking in general, it's my opinion about the game based on what I see in vids. I hope nobody misunderstand my words, I don't want to offend K'/Kula players. I'm trying to point out why nobody give a chance to other characters that are good too for sure.