Played a match against a Hayate last night, they weren't particularly skilled but was on a 7 win streak. I did my Leon thing and pulled out 3-1. Get in queue for the next match and I got a message (below is the series of messages I got from the guy, shot taken from my PS4 so I'll say what I said between each message).
After the first message I said "Shame I play a grappler. Throwing and throw punishing is fun." - Despite the most damage he was dealing was about 60 points at a time while I was dishing out half health combos every match.
2nd."Getting guaranteed damage that cannot be broken or escaped is noobish? If that is the case both of us need to look at how we play our characters." - Did nothing beyond 5 hit combos while I did half health combos+ with half the effort the guy was putting in.
3rd. "Technically two buttons. I didn't do a single T that match. Everything I threw was inescapable. If you stand and guard I will throw, if you hold I will try to throw. Not too many strikes in this game can be punished with a striking combo. If the move is unsafe the best option is to always throw." - Despite this knowledge a lot of players in general choose to strike punish. To break that habit you all should play Bass and learn to throw punish.
Stopped replying after that, Acrylic wanted to play and I had more fun with that.
The only time I was losing was the one match he won and it was only by about 50 health. The guy never throw punished me, finished his strings knowing they were being blocked and giving me the chance to throw punish, would stand there and block for up to five seconds at a time, and Leon is slow. I'm not going to try to strike punish with him at all unless you are -1000000000000000000000000, even then Desert Falcon or 1T is a better option. Shame I didn't save the replay, the match itself wasn't anything special.