Deejay status check:

>still no overhead
>still no cancellable low
>all buttons are stubby
>c mp is still the only button that can be cancelled into DI (or anything at all)
>antiair buttons are still disjointed and lose interactions for no reason
>feint fireball can always be punished with a dp still
>sway is a death sentence against DI in all its variations
>no air throw privileges like JP or Mai
>lvl 2 doesn't give back drive even if you cancel it while akuma gets a free combo after his
>useless lvl 1
>feint jackknife is a poor man's dive kick and a bum's demon flip
>got his damage nuked after S1 and then they gave it to all dlc characters lmao
>no reprensentation in high level outside of Xian (who wants to drop him asap)
>light sobat is easier to punish tha Bison's scissors
>hasn't won anything meaninful in years
>as of s3, easily the worst fireball character in the game
>Du plays him just for fun and has called him "guile but worse"
>abandoned by Fuudo, Dogura, Hotdog, Zhen
>s3 buffs were a nothingburger even though it's the third time they're buffing him

if it wasn't for his incredible drive rush everyone would be putting him in low tier at this point