Something I was talking about is how presence matters about how you are in a game rather than how you are as a person. People mostly talk about SonicFox for "the wrong reasons", aka, the reasons that you'd talk about a person who plays fighting games. It's how they act, how they behave, and how they present themselves but barely ever how they play. Even LTG can be good.... at times. Even Dark Syde Phil has taken some victories. When people talk about how SonicFox's playstyle, usually people talk about how he's a corner creep, always getting people in unfavorable situations thanks to just pelting away and making sure they never get to play. He's a zoner, a pressure point player, and the only real way to beat him is to be better than him, by knowing how to counter that, and then he has nothing.
Compare this to Justin Wong, Daigo Umehara, and Chris G. Wong is an amazing Marvel 2 player and both Wong and Chris are amazing MVC3 players. One of THE hypest sets ever was
UMVC3 Losers Semis in 2013. Both shared a similar story: They dominated their games so hard that more people feared playing against them and the audience didn't like them. They were heels. But the difference is that both of them came from differing game backgrounds. Chris had a Smash career, and Justin Wong played just about any fighter but played mostly Capcom ones, notably Street Fighter, and even detested MVC3 for a while, showing how quick he is to adapt to a new setting. Chris G plays three characters in UMVC3 that have extremely differing playstyles which shows how versatile he is.
SonicFox has had the same motive and gameplan and plays many characters who have easy to spam and pressure projectiles. Whether it's Dragon Ball FighterZ where he constantly pressures you with zoning tools with Hit's long distant punches, or using Erron Black's guns, he's just a shitter who has only won big majors through the infancy of a game or games that benefit his playstyle. When a game doesn't, such as Soulcalibur, he stops because he keeps losing because nothing suits his play style.
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Liquipedia, even his own stats show how bad he is and how much he cares about fighting games he can't easily win at. Street Fighter V is immensely popular and Tekken has a sizeable pool of people joining. These results look awful when you get down to it. And let's not forget his Glass Joe record against SMUG in 2019 in SFV.