Honestly shugoki either needs another chain. Light, heavy and Heavy, heavy just isn't enough. If not more chains possibly another attack. Maybe some kind of quick hit with the pommel of his kanabo he can perform as a chain finisher that applies a small stun similar to his heabutt but with with no stam drain and some dmg instead. As it stands Shugo is completely shut down at high lvl play. Newer players are punished by him hard I'll give him that but I'm starting to get towards the more experienced reps and he's now almost completely useless. No reliable offence and his so called 50/50 is not a 50/50 at all and players can simply wait out all of the options you may choose to try. He needs some offence capabilities... at higher levels of play there is just nothing shugoki can do other than turtle and try for parries, which if I remember correctly is what Ubisoft is trying to move away from.