Yeah, and no offense, but that's because you play Leon wrong. Your weird philosophy on not using his most punishing throws and guaranteed cycles because you consider it "spammy" leave you playing a gimped Leon that no one else plays.
If you played Leon to even an inch of his potential (or Mila for that matter), you would realize you do not play them in the same way. Mila has a 12 frame mid for crying out loud. You can't play Leon like you've got a 12 frame mid. That alone should be changing your game dramatically.
Please stop with the elitist attitude. There is no "playing leon/mila wrong". If i'm beating them (especially by such huge margins with such massive damage with such little effort), i'm doing fine. My leon/mila is only "gimped" if not doing guaranteed cycles puts me at some kind of a clear disadvantage, which it doesn't.
I can do the same ground'n'pound game with both, in nearly the same patterns with nearly the same attacks (though I really wish leon could do it from SS as well). You can't honestly say "You can't play them the same" when I literally can, and constantly do. Mila having a 12 frame mid doesn't change that.
Brute, I'm sorry, but I hate when people try to say that a character is played "wrong" or "gimped" when neither is applicable. (Im simply not playing in a style that is total overkill, because it is unnecessary lol.) You not liking how I play, or someone else being better than me, is one thing, but please don't try to start that nonsensical horseshit with me. Leon is a power character, I play him as such. Mila is a versatile character able to be played in multiple styles, I find myself enjoying playing her as a lighter, faster, Leon, (aka, a brawler), which she is surprisingly efficient at.
These are two characters that I can enjoy using efficiently without having to juggle or use guaranteed loops and whatnot, and that's a big part of why I love them so much, as that's a factor when I pick a character in any fighting game, and why I favor power characters. The fact that they can be played in a strikingly similar style is icing on the cake, making it really easy to transition between them.
I'm sorry, I really really really hate that whole "you are using them wrong" just because I'm not doing overkill guaranteed cycles. It'd be wrong if I was say, trying to play Leon as a striker/juggler like Hitomi or something, when he's a power character through and through. And there's virtually no way to play Mila wrong, because she's designed as practical and versatile. You like to juggle/strike which she can do, I like to beat them down, which she can do equally as effective.
reminds me of crap like in SF4, I'd get told I was "playing guile wrong" because I didn't sit back and hide behind sonic booms. Such horseshit. When guile's air grab can beat out Thawks condor dive, and his mid punch can beat out Honda's torpedo headbutt thing, damn right i'm gonna charge em head on instead of playing keepaway.
Or saying I played Alex "wrong" because I actually learned to time my grapples and supers instead of just jabbing into them all the time.
The basis of my fighting style is I like my damage raw. No setups, no guaranteed juggles, just learn the timing of my attacks and deal it directly. It's riskier, but I believe teaches better fighting skills, and is certainly more rewarding for me to just wreck an opponent, knowing I didn't have to use any "free" or "guaranteed" damage. That's why I play how I do. and i've made it work for me. I've found few others who can match me in my playstyle, and I mean that across multiple fighting games, not just DOA.
gaaah. I know you likely didn't mean to, but ya really struck a nerve with that comment, and that's a big chunk of why I have such little respect for the FGC, because that unwarranted attitude of "play like I do or don't play" is what most of my experience with FGC has been, and why I have no desire to join the actual tournament scene. As for as I'm concerned, if it works, and I enjoy it, that is end of discussion.
(apologies, the more I typed, the more I riled myself up.)
/end rant
Imma go calm down now. Eat some fuckin peanut butter cookies I just remembered were at the bottom of this bag, here....
No direct offense intended, by the way. Just general rage goin on there.