Now if only Luci could get a few of her weaknesses taken away...
Shaya, you've been a huge contributer to the Marth boards for a long time. In your opinion how much do these changes affect our worst MUs?
Every match up is better. Maybe not ZSS as much (she can likely flip jump out of any jab traps, lol).
But Luigi and Mario? They really don't like our jab. Neither does Pikachu.
Sheik? Well Dolphin Slash killing earlier is great as she doesn't have ways to challenge it. Jab traps her pretty hard as she likely struggles to jump out of it.
Sonic and Yoshi feasibily not that much better, but in general up tilt/jab being safe to use now is of similar impact as dancing blade suddenly being safe to use (because you don't get punished for using them in the right situations anymore). Rosalina match up is around about the same still too I'd say.
But yeah, beyond the knockback of jab 1 being better, the fact that the jab transition is that much faster + always comboing just makes it a significantly better move to use, can't highlight this enough.
Up Tilt isn't a combo-esque move anymore but gives us all the breathing space + positional dominance for us to capitalize on.