Feels terrible to play on a fightpad, but feels somewhat decent playing with an arcade stick. The game doesn't seem to store inputs or have a buffer, so you effectively have to return to neutral after each input to get consistent skills. So a 236 whatever motion would be a 2 5 [6]+Whatever.
Blocking doesn't to give any advantage as far as I can tell other than reduced damage and hitstun is barely percievable to the point that you can act immediately act near immediately after the hit, so the AI will always have a massive advantage with input reading hax.