Yeah, smoke beats Kano pretty bad imo. You can just stand at full screen and you nullity his only safe full screen option so he comes to you meaning you don't have to come to him reducing the chance of you eating an upball. You can outpoke him but watch out for his sweep it has good range and lowers his hitbox. Against cage definitely lame him out, his only tools for getting past projectiles are ex shadow kick and the good ol' dash block. If you lame him out with bombs and pokes when he's getting close it'll be hard for him to get in and if he does you'll probably have enogh meter to let him hit the f3 and when he goes for the other 3 breaker him sending him back to the bad position. Don't get nutpunched at all.
Okay, so you aren't gonna be able to punish it online on reaction but it is full combo punishable on block so if you feel the kano is upball happy you can pressure him and then you can stop your pressure sometimes to see if he gets caught upballing and because you know it might be coming you can punish it on prediction. For the rest of his game he is slow as hell and the only move he has that's plus on block is his sweep. What character do you main?
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