>take a break after the floorhug changes
>come back
>man, Ranno kind of fucking sucks
>take a break, come back
>man, Ranno still fucking sucks
>take a break, come back
>man Ranno STILL fucking sucks
I don't get it, did they just arbitrarily decide that this character permanently deserves to be neutered?

his neutral is awful and he has basically nothing to deal with floorhug except grab. but grab gets stuffed by characters who are able to mash without consequence like Clairen and Olympia, and dash dancing back-and-forth in neutral means that he's sacrificing floorhug. i'd argue that ground speed without a disjoint isn't even a very good attribute at the moment, given how much of an emphasis there is on floorhugging. look at Olympia, she's slow as shit and it doesn't hurt her at all because she has a brain dead advantage state.
meanwhile, the run speed nerf raped his advantage state so badly that he can't even tech chase specific characters off of dthrow if he reads tech out from the frame he's actionable. and it makes his more interesting strings more difficult to connect while doing nothing to nerf his boring bread-and-butter ones.

Ranno seriously speedran his way to Sheik-esque irrelevance in about 6 months. he's good at gimping people offstage and that's it.