Problem with Arthur is just that, He needs XF3 to become good. Every Character is beastly with XF3, and some characters did the chip and Zoning thing better, despite him being a complete Zoning character, in a game that flips the bird on Zoning.
Valle's Capt was great but.....Capt was just lousy in Vanilla. All he really had was Shield Slash Zoning and combos, and uh, Zoning sucked in Vanilla. Shield Slash OTGing is a godsend, giving him back his double jump and actually giving his roll invincibility also greatly helped him.
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Nice catch BlAcK TuRtLe.
But too bad your ass got SAAAAAAAAAAACKED.*tackles*