I was running throw Claudio's move list when I came to and odd realization. He doesn't have very many safe moves. A lot of his decent damaging moves are all -12 plus or have a duckable high. This is part of the reason all you do is see Claudio's f+3, WR+2, and u/f+4(and b+1 before the nerf). f+3 is his only safe decently fast(i18 is not fast though) damaging mid option and there is really no reason to use all these other punishable moves when you can hopkick because it has the best risk reward.
It's kinda the story with the character and why the b+1 nerf seems kinda silly because with the move at -12 why wouldn't I just hopkick instead? Hopkick is faster, gives me good damage on normal hit not just CH, jumps over lows, has good range. The same can be said with so many of his other moves. Like b+2, on hit it gives you Starburst and a KD but it's high and -12. Why would I use it when I can just hopkick? d/f+31 is -12, 1+2 is -14, d/f+2 -13, and the list goes on.
In this regard the character design kinda sucks. He has all these moves but they are useless because none of them do anything better than hopkick. So you end up with the character using like 4 moves over and over again. Nerfing b+1 just means you're going to see a lot more f+3. Nerf f+3 and people are just going to hopkick even more. He needs a rebalancing in terms of move usefulness.
