Raul lowkey isn't that good

Okay so hear me out

In theory (and when you play against him) Raul is the most broken character. Going through every block and countering slides is just too strong.

When you play against him, you can only hope your f1 driver reaction time will save you / your middle will lock in when he does his red attack. He also has boosted stats compared to the "playable" raul which makes him unblockable by your own raul, but we'll come back to this later

However, when you play him he truly isn't that good :

-First of all i find him quite inconsistent. At BT 2, he can hit (without first attack bonus) above 160 but i find it quite rare (most likely a skill issue but either way) and sometimes 170 . But there is 'almost' no inbetween and either he hits a 155 or a 170, which i find a bit annoying

-The bigger problem : opponents stats buffs.

AI in this game isn't that great, hence the boosted stats to counteract this. While i think league and tournament need to be challenging, i don't see a reason why they should buff it this much. For instance, you can see quite consistently nishikawa and ryuhyeon having attack stats around the 220 mark, while getting at least + 20 in every other stat. They're S+ characters, which makes it understandable. But for characters such as Roberto, yamadera , oasis and yongsup (to name a few) i don't see why they should reach the 205/210 attack mark.

If you're unfamiliar with Raul's ability, he can spike through any blocker with a lower attack stat than him, but he will be blocked if the opponent has a higher attack stat. Now this is a problem because you can't block Raul (no character you own will ever have an attack stat high enough to do so) but half the game can block your Raul. If you take nishikawa as a counter example, despite the stat buffs, his 'playable version' is almost as broken as his league or tournament version, and that's why he's imo the best s+ character. Since Raul's whole gimmick is hitting through any block , preventing it just makes him a s tier that can spike in 2 different styles , except 2 games out of 3 he gets completely shut down by an unplayable random .

For me Raul needs some kind of change, either make him idk 'blockable' only by s+ or characters in engaged state, but as for now , he really isn't that op as far as an s+ character goes .