Indeed he does. However they shouldn't buff him because of looks. Look at my 2 statuses about the situation of character looks. The issue was about Marie Rose since someone wrote that Marie Rose should be buffed because she's cute. I cannot take anyone serious for that.
Lol, I just hopped on the bandwagon, Bomb.
Gregg, if you fight me, I use i3P constantly. I do the 5 i3Ps on neutral hit, then 2P+K46P just because it's fun. XD
Eliot actually has the best ranged pressure in the game. He is quite literally uncontested in that regard, with the runner-ups being momiji and then hayate.
I'm still not convinced. I agree though as like I said in my strategy posts before Eliot needs some space in order to succeed but against skilled opponents who are more familiar with Eliot it doesn't work so well especially against characters who play in your face (and then I desperately try and cartwheel away from them. XD)
There is no reason Eliot should ever have to wait for an opportunity to attack, unless its in anticipation of a sidestep you simply wait half a tick and then attack anyway. Or use his 6H+K nonsense to auto-track crap despite the fact it isn't supposed to.
In the case of marie rose, she'll dance around you. But her shit is broken and she dances around basically everyone, whether they are supposed to track or not, so whatever.