I agree with OP.

Berserker was my main up until prestige 8 (now I kinda switched mains).

He's good, but the problem is any fast opponent will automatically get away from your deflect. This happens with peacekeepers (and "sometimes" orochi, but rarely). And now it happens with Valkyries after their speed buff.

Basically if they start a combo or a chain of attacks and you deflect within their attacks while they are kept continuing attacking, they WILL keep on attacking you even after you deflect into gb. That's for peacekeepers. the animation for our deflect into gb is slower than their reactions. Which just neglects the whole deflect and you get attacked.

While for Valkyrie, you just flinch away, or get staggered as if you got stunned.

Here's a quick video I captured while fighting a Valkyrie. I tried to get a deflect in the middle of her attack moves to prove it.




I'm trying to find my video on the peacekeeper, I know i recorded it. Because peacekeepers when you deflect their attacks, its impossible to guardbreak, they're so fast they cancel it with an attack. Sometimes we both get pushed back.