mundaney
Buff the Kahns
This is probably the most accurate description of Jade.
This is probably the most accurate description of Jade.
Her parry is pretty good for interrupting that kick string that Liu players love to spam
Please, we both know you're the better player.
Appreciate this fully. I know several Scorp players who feel the same and would rather have better normals.
Yes, it's verified to be harder.
I completely understand what you mean about the jumping around!
That's exactly how I feel. Honestly I would be fine if they toned down her strengths down a bit and tweaked her elsewhere. I don't like doing all the jump air glaiving the majority of the round neither even though it's really strong against a lot of characters.
My issues with Jade's current balance boil down to this, though not quite as specific as just Air Glaive. Jade has a very small set of ridiculously potent tools at her disposal (D2, D4, Air Glaive, Glow) alongside some other decently strong tools (B343, B2, amp'd regular Glaive); but the rest of her kit is just varying levels of trash or HIGHLY situational. Her power budget is in what I feel to be a really shitty state right now. Too much of her kit literally should not be used ever against a competent opponent and that's awful. As I said way before, more of her tools being regularly usable would be a godsend in helping her. She should have more options to help in different situations, but she really doesn't right now. B1 to check aggressive people? Nope, too slow and unsafe. F21 for combo potential? GOD no, it's reactable and unsafe except at maximum range. Parrying button-happy people? lol no, it's 12f and has a very small active frame window. Glaive cancels for safety? Matchup knowledge will result in your death cause she doesn't jail the opponent into having to block them.
In a game of Liu's F4, Scorpion's teleport, Sonya, Geras etc. I feel like her kit should revolve around b3 staggers into a safe special that's, on MB unsafe and launches.
Not really the string. I can’t really air rang him because of his air fireball. He also has that flying kick KB from it.
Idk if this is right but I think a lot of our problems with Jade is just that she's not what we hoped for after seeing her tools day 1, or perhaps in your experience from mk9.
I just watched that match that entire match had one flawless blocked b3434
And Error Blacks F4
He did it 1/1 times on Waz when waz tried it, but he did it multiple times to Kitana prime. Your referring to Waz's match, not against KP
We don't get anywhere acting like the sky is falling, though. Let's take a step away from the cliff and not pull an MK4 Jarek here. Jade has a VERY solid base in just those tools I mentioned which means we aren't in an MK9 situation where Jade is just abysmal. If NRS decides to touch her balance directly (instead of just indirectly through balance of other characters and game systems), all they'd really need to do is even out her power budget. Air Glaive being an 11/10 tool while others are just unusable is a clear sign that she needs to have her power redistributed.
A good elaboration of what I mean when I say things like "I think she could use some help and I trust NRS to deliver."
I was exactly thrilled that we'd get a powerful pressure based character who can lock down zoners and go toe to toe with Liu, Lao, Sonya etc by pushing them back out and forcing them to take risks getting in.
Right, but I'm sure there's some people who love that air glaive dispensing/b2 or d4 when they get close and repeat playstyle.
Pole vault is "fine" too just less "fine" than when you have Air Glaive. Giving it Air Glaive or Delia instead of Amp SK would make it much more viable. As well as fixing the issues with vault and possibly making cancels better.
I made a thread, check the Jade forum. I haven't updated the list in a while but the posts under it contain some good intel. Also I think Mortar is a high so just neutral duck it
Again speaking from an online perspective, would instant glow be any less cheap then the current air Boomerang situation is against normal characters? But I can definitely see the argument. And honestly I think it's it's a choice between being broken in the air and broken on the ground I'd rather be broken on the ground to normalize the strategies. Against the rest of the cast that is.
