I'm gonna file everything I find/observe over time in this particular post, starting tonight.
Hopefully this little tablet post of info will come in handy as we progress.
Keep in mind, while this is Day One, Post One for me as Mamba (I am envoking my right as an auditioning Manta main to call him Mamba), my view is going to be overall and broad, and encompass everything that could possibly affect him or be helpful to remember.
1. My first immediate observation: he legit has Doomsday's forward dash speed.
It looks and feels exactly the same and covers the same amount of screen at the same speed I'm used to.
Which means dashing in and taking liberties can be a thing depending on the matchup.
Seriously, when I started hopping around and getting familiar, this made me so happy.
2. I don't want to hear ANYONE EVER bitching for buffs to his Rockets or his Tele-Uppercut, because combining them with his Trait would make him way more broken than it needs to be.
3. JI3 into Tele-Uppercut is dirty as Dirty Dan.
4. TRAIT FLOAT CANCELS. Just like Sindel and Ermac before him, you can cancel - not insta-cancel like Sindel's, but still good enough - right back to the ground out of the Float using L2. You can't really troll with it, unless it's I guess a Canary or Cheetah waiting to get Trait back, or a Catwoman with no meter.
How fast they can be done, I have no idea, but it makes people do really dumb things.
5. Regular Tele-Uppercut gets beat out by literally EVERYTHING.
I've had some occasions (so far only with Batman and Black Adam) where I'll try and TU through someone's wakeup or just to check them or burn them out with a meter burned TU and they'd mash 112 or F12 and not only knock me right out of it but RESTOOD ME FOR A COMBO. be very, very wary of checking your foes with Tele-Uppercut on knockdown.
More to come.