so looking at max's haggar footage it looks like lariat no longer does a hard knockdown which is really lame. looks like it doesn't even do soft knockdowns which is really stupid. his garbage can projectile seems like it has 0 durability as well. how the fuck is he going to approach zoning heavy characters? i bet lariat is longer invincible and rapid fire fist no longer has start up invincibility. doubt stomach press got anything added to it either. haggar is one of the only things saving this game for me and the more i see the more i dislike.
This is such a knee jerk, tunnel vision approach to analyzing a returning character. The bias is too obvious.
First of all Haggar was fine with a soft knockdown on Lariat. In this version he has insane float//hit stun after Lariat, so much so that they get hit up with Lariat, float back down to Lariat for another hit. You have more than enough time to tag and get a combo from Lariat in this game.
The Garbage can projectile is still a projectile. It's not meant to win projectile wars, it's meant to throw a hit box so that the person who is zoning has to block it or react to it. That's enough time for Haggar to get in with. You can use it in the air and it has multiple angles/spaces. Plus the screen is smaller than Marvel 3 so Haggar naturally should have an easier time getting in (that and the vertical screen is also smaller so people can't air dash above his super jump pipe range). In addition, the garbage can projectile absorbs physical hits as well meaning it can help against rushdown as well because it acts like a parry.
Stomach Press is now air ok by the way, that's a major buff to it.
How is Haggar going to get in on zoning characters? I don't know if you have been following this game but zoning in this game isn't actually very good so far. Chip is very low (further reduced by advance guarding), meter gain is low and perfect advancing guard reflects projectiles back at the opponent. Not only that but you also have the Stone system. You can pull enemies in with Space stone (or put them in the Cube), you can use Reality stone homing projectile to try to get in with or you can use the Time stone to have a teleport dash with Haggar. That's far and beyond the options available to Haggar. Not to mention that you can still throw Arrows with Hawkeye then tag into Haggar for the usual projectile assist tactic that Haggar used to get in with in Marvel 3. You also have the new short hump super jump that allows players to have better approaches which should help Haggar a lot.
We don't know if the Rapid Punch super is invincible but Lariat definitely seems to have invincibility on it. More importantly the LVL3 is instant meaning if they were on the ground when you activate it then they get hit.
Haggar has other new options in the game. I suggest doing some additional research before coming to conclusions like that.