how difficult is zafina?

[Atsura]

i might second her, she looks interesting

[🆁🅴🅶🅴🅽🆃]

If you don't know already, she's too hard for you.

[ofey3]

From one hand she do not have complicaated movement like half or quarter circles etc., but some moves in combo need use quite precisious timming.
From other hand she have 3 stances and 2 from them are really risique because you can't block. But these stances gave her many posibilities.
After some moves she automatically go to stance, you can cancel of course, but this require time and can gave you frame disadvantage. I think that lerning these transitions is the hardest part of this character.
Saying how dificult is Zafina is not so simple deppends on rank which you play with her and so on. For sure you need to spend more time than usual character to lerning her.

[Raiyn]

She's very difficult to be honest. She doesn't have complicated moves, but the 3 stances that Zafina has is what makes her hard to learn.
She's very interesting indeed, and she's very rewarding when you use her properly, but first of all, if you're interested in picking her, you have to get familiarized with her stances first, what moves lead to a stance and how to cancel that stance.
You have to learn Zafina's stances while you learn her moves, the safe ones and the unsafe ones.

Example: When you hit "3" with Zafina, she'll do a high kick and then she will automatically put herself in the "Scarecrow" (SCR) stance. If you want to cancel that stance, all you have to do is hold back right after hitting 3. Sometimes you can have a transition from one stance to another by holding up after a move,or holding down, holding back to cancel SCR, etc.

Now, the experience will tell you whether you should stay in one stance or the other after doing a certain attack, or just go neutral and cancel the transitions.