I hate so many things about the new thawk, 623k for spire sucks, same input as tomahawk buster but with k? What is this nonsense. The spire might be faster but it is not as safe to use it since it's a forward move. In Ae 2012, I could use spire to quickly punish a whiffed move since my finger would already be on back, I could also easily follow that up with a 240 spd since my finger would default to back during the spire.
What they should have changed is the input for Ultra 2 for hawk, it should have been like Hugo's U2 which is 2xQCF. 2xHCB/F's is bad news for grapplers who play on pad as it's an awkward input to execute in a pressure situation, If not, then they should make his u2 like gief's which is a 720 motion, anything but hcb/f's, please no hc's.