That is more along the lines of what i was going for. I should have been more clear. Thank you cx
No problem, lots of characters are played differently compared to back then since vanilla was a highly offensive oriented game with tons of scenarios that can net you force techs while even being in situations to where if they do tech up from force tech scenarios, they'll still be at positive frames making the defensive player put too much reads just to get rewards in return.
If I had to put up a text about it, vanilla was so offensive to the point that you may be put into situations on guessing more often than you should for playing defense. Then Ultimate was released changing that concept to add for example - more invincibility frames when touching the ground to prevent ancient force techs from working. Ultimate and Last Round seems to be a bit more sane with longevity, as well as Last Round's health being 300 which is a step up from Vanilla's 240 health.
If I had to put it in simpler terms, you'd get bullied hard in vanilla for silly reasons or get steamed rolled for trying to play honest. My favorite part of vanilla was how amazing Akira is on that game. It was glorious and wish to go back into those glory days lol. Him, Hayate, Mila, Lisa, Kasumi, Rig were hilarious in that game...but enough about that, yeah Last Round according from Awesmic from the looks of it, hasn't changed Christie much so still mostly the same from Ultimate.