I would like some buffs and tweaks, but I also could live with the was he is. Good things about reptile. Frame traps, good damage, safe on a lot of stuff, corpse hop gimmick, can break a lot of armor wake ups like kung jins, predator, raidens, with his b3,4 string due to low hit box and multiple hits.
He's rush down character with some zoning tools, I mean all his variations pretty much lean towards that notion, and it make since that some of the trouble I have with is being zoned like cybernetic kano, shinnok, kenshi, or Katina, but he has tools to get in like EX slide and the mix up from Klaw bounce.So variation changes could help.
Noxious: Maybe make this the zoning variation, because you could use his trait for defense if they get near and then punish and then end it with force ball pressure for more zoning, it would need to be balanced though because noxious can be good for rush down to. But the big thing could be when he activates noxious his projectiles get poisonous damage over time like dvorah in venomous. Instead of enhanced swamp slam giving you a pop up he ends it with the acid puddle. The poison damage with projectiles would also make people use force balls in combos more often, but you have to activate noxious to get the poisonous damage. Acid puddle should also stop people from running like erron blacks traps. Also what would be cool is if you could pop force balls to make an acid puddle instead of stopping them for a meter. Ex dash leaves a long acid trail that prevents running like acid puddle but dissipates shortly, you would use this to escape, and mobility but would 't give you a pop up anymore. Also get rid of his slide, and klaw moves. This variation would be about zoning and poisonous damage. This would be sick .
Nimble: Make start up quicker on ex trait so you could get around zoning a little easier,but what I think would be really cool is force ball cancels. I mean that way he could actually go into trait if he starts with a low. And could ex force ball cancel where it leaves it FB behind you and then this could lead to some really cool stuff.
deceptive: Force ball cancels would be very deceptive. And if he gets hit blocking he should stay in deception. Should be able to stack deceptive instead of turning it off.
But if not anything plus ex force balls would be nice. lol