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>>10162347
3S Chun-li is kind of an everything character.
Playing her with pokes is great, I play her like that. But a lot of the pros play her as a pure turtle. You can also play her as a rushdown character. Rushdown Chun is fucking terrifying. You can flip back and forth between those three and become unpredictable.
The funniest way you can play her is as a gimmicky trickster character. Even though she's more or less the most popular character in the game she has like two dozen wacky moves that you never see used outside of combos if you see them at all. So your opponent goes in expecting another plain "Eigh! Eigh! Eigh! -> SA2" and gets a series of wacky shenanigans instead.
About the only strategies she's bad at are zoning (which everyone is pretty bad at due to parries) and anything that abuses invincible reversals since she has to spend meter for hers.
But yes, poking is very viable in Third Strike, especially with Chun-li since she can convert her pokes into insane damage with SA2.