I think mika is one of the worst, because the cpu will jump any grab at later states on hard / hell.
Honestly as much as I love street fighter (vs mode - who cares about anything else?), I wouldn’t give this game more than a 7 out of 10 on a whole - and that’s being nice. I’ve played Hard Mode 3 times now and got into the 40s just to be countered by every button I press - there’s no skill involved in this crap. The AI just randomly decides that it will counter the button you’re pressing with the only possible button that can beat it in the given situation.
Utter bollocks. Fuck Capcom for taking the piss out of us like this.
All of the people who are having a hard time with survival mode should try this. Go to training, turn on the CPU dummy, and set the AI to the highest difficulty. Find the safest and cheesiest tactics for exploiting flaws in the AI. Then go play the most boring survival mode ever. Make sure to pick the extra defense supplements and health when you need it.
I’m gonna try this on Laura, Bison and Rashid now - after I smoke a blunt and down a 5th of vodka to recompose myself
I’m playing as Necalli atm and as much as I fucking loathe this shit I can’t see those same shit colours anymore I need variety in my life. Seriously fuck the game designer who thought this was ok… Fuck me I’m raging just thinking about trying it again lol
39 with Bison -_-
Even though it’s hard as shit, I hope they never patch it. I like the idea of “you have to be thiiiiis good to be able to get these colors”. Keep the scrubs in their gutter trash clothing lol
I kinda like the exclusivity of the colors, too. I suspect I’ll be limited to colors 1-6 forever, but hey–I’m not thaaaat good. 
Had 4 attempts today… 26, 30-something, 43 and 47 (not in that order). Think I’m done for a while! D:
That’s not really guaranteed progress, because it actually requires wins. And if you’re bad enough that you lose all the time, you aren’t making progress.
I tried two times to clear hard, the two times got crushed by Rashid at 32.
I dont have the will to try again.
Got sick of trying, downloaded the trainer and got Chun’s, did Ken’s hard and hell legit with the MP DP strat though.
Fuck this game mode, I even wanted to kill myself playing it whilst cheating. It’s the most soulless, tedious, boring wrist cuttingly stale game-mode I’ve ever seen shoehorned into a AAA release. At least when game developers make these shitty modes they don’t lock basic game content behind them.
At last, I’ve got normal beat with everybody.
Welp…unless I can get super lucky and cheese hard mode with Rashid or Ken, I’m not getting anything more than 6 colors per character.
I fucking hate this shit sooo much
And then flashy mc 8 colours goes online and gets rect because of all the bad habits he’s got to unlearn from having slogged through survival mode.
Or he goes to play someone else in person and is stuck with only 2 colours because the guy who’s hosting or who bought the console along didn’t want to slog through 3 difficulties of survival once for every costume for every character.
Or he plays against PC players and finds his colours are no longer special because trainer.
Now Arcana Heart 3 did what you are proposing with special colours for achievements right, you got a good selection instantly and then several more through ranking online, only place I felt it didn’t do well there is that the colours weren’t permanent unlocks and you couldn’t use colours you’d unlocked online offline.
I mean I guess it made sense if it was treating them as a sort of champion’s belt but since it was actually a full palette colour it felt kind of stingy to go “You have proven yourself with this character, have these colours, oh but you can only use them here and we’re taking them back at the end of the month”.
THIS.
Ppl shouldn’t be saying this about your game. Esp not lots of ppl.
I agree, the exclusivity of colors is actually brilliant. But I’ve WASTED a lot of time on runs just to get the beat down countless others have in this thread only to say…“I fucking hate this shit sooo much!” Doesn’t feel good knowing I’m the only one.
You are so glass half empty. 
I’m gonna get my purple M Beezy and show all y’all :neutral:
Trainers bring dishonor upon your FAMERY! >:[ ]
disgaea’s grinding makes sense. this doesn’t.
if it had equip slots, depth. world tour mode was just as stagnant in alpha but I understand the whole it’s meant to be espn tier : /
if it was a disgaea mode it’d make sense the item world
So tempted to do the same for Charlie and Chun.
Mp DP does work well for Ken in hard at least. I did it like that but it’s also luck, sometimes they do punish.
You have to adapt for Laura and Cammy from what I’ve seen they were the hardest by far. Just sweep them, it works great against them.
The fact that this thread is 99% fuck this shit should answer the question
I wish I could do it on console sigh