I only just started playing this, but jumped into the story mode right after the tutorial like I figure most people would and this AI, on normal, is insane. I still have no clue about this game's combo structure or the best neutral options because I just started and the AI is absolutely creaming me, they have a pattern of zoning you until you get close, which doesn't bother me because if a character can do that why wouldn't they, but then once I close in I get input read and clobbered by the same 15 hit combo every time. One time they actually optimized the combo because the one it had been hitting me with the whole match would have just missed killing me so they added a couple of hits somehow. Wild.