From a statistical standpoint: I'd already landed in Gold III back when I was placing all the characters. Yesterday, I played Bedman in ranked for about an hour and a half, winning 9 out of 12 sets.
As for how I was able to win that much, I'm not sure, considering I'd been really inconsistent with Bedman in the past. I feel like I just kind of... played solid? I haven't played Bedman like that in a long time, so maybe playing Granblue a bunch gave me skills that transferred to Bedman well. Granblue forced me to be creative with my offence just to hit people, giving me a better sense of frame/spacing trapping opponents to death and clutching out rounds, which is kind of Bedman's whole thing.