dookieagain
Last Bastion of Arcades
This is just a fun thread for those of us who've been around to see how much balance changes in NRS games in the first few months.
So pick three, most likely to get nerfed into oblivion (Deathstroke syndrome) most likely to be inadvertently buffed to be ridiculous (Flash/Bane syndrome) and most likely to be utterly op yet somehow ignored due to other characters getting louder complaints. (Batgirl/Kabal disorder)
Nerfed: Grandmaster Sub-zero/Inferno Scorpion/Full-auto Jacqui
Sub-zero is too visible, also @General M2Dave is trying to save him, and we've seen where that goes.
Inferno Scorpion is actually viable in the hands of a complete idiot, and terrifying in the hands of a good player. We know what happens next.
Jacqui is the new Deathstroke, and I've been to Gamefaqs, she's all they talk about. (Hey NRS, fix your netcode and you won't have to nerf all your zoners, just saying.)
Buffed: Nimble Reptile/A-list or Stunt Double Johnny Cage/Kitana.
Their communities are already crying about how they don't have pressure, how their characters are ruined, how they have no way to open anyone up etc.
Ignored: Hollywood Cassie Cage/ Covert Ops Sonya/ Marksman Erron Black.
Cassie's cleverly deflecting with her spec ops variant and the fact that the nut kracker input is constantly dropped online so the loud tide of terribads can't see how dumb she is.
Sonya is another character nobody is going to see online unless it's REO playing, and she skated through MK9 intact so I see this as an encore.
Erron Black has all of Kabal's stupid plus frame cancel crap plus a vortex, but doing that is hard so the only complaints I've seen are that his high/low/high string being hard to block online. Plus his community is doing amazing downplaying considering he's placed top 3 in every tournament so far. Can @SonicFox5000 go two for two on protecting dumb vortexes from modification with hardcore downplaying?
Bonus category: Kung Lao/Kung Jin continue Kung family tradition and get nerfs to damage and tools they don't use while retaining everything dumb. So despite every patch changing them they both remain top 5.
So pick three, most likely to get nerfed into oblivion (Deathstroke syndrome) most likely to be inadvertently buffed to be ridiculous (Flash/Bane syndrome) and most likely to be utterly op yet somehow ignored due to other characters getting louder complaints. (Batgirl/Kabal disorder)
Nerfed: Grandmaster Sub-zero/Inferno Scorpion/Full-auto Jacqui
Sub-zero is too visible, also @General M2Dave is trying to save him, and we've seen where that goes.
Inferno Scorpion is actually viable in the hands of a complete idiot, and terrifying in the hands of a good player. We know what happens next.
Jacqui is the new Deathstroke, and I've been to Gamefaqs, she's all they talk about. (Hey NRS, fix your netcode and you won't have to nerf all your zoners, just saying.)
Buffed: Nimble Reptile/A-list or Stunt Double Johnny Cage/Kitana.
Their communities are already crying about how they don't have pressure, how their characters are ruined, how they have no way to open anyone up etc.
Ignored: Hollywood Cassie Cage/ Covert Ops Sonya/ Marksman Erron Black.
Cassie's cleverly deflecting with her spec ops variant and the fact that the nut kracker input is constantly dropped online so the loud tide of terribads can't see how dumb she is.
Sonya is another character nobody is going to see online unless it's REO playing, and she skated through MK9 intact so I see this as an encore.
Erron Black has all of Kabal's stupid plus frame cancel crap plus a vortex, but doing that is hard so the only complaints I've seen are that his high/low/high string being hard to block online. Plus his community is doing amazing downplaying considering he's placed top 3 in every tournament so far. Can @SonicFox5000 go two for two on protecting dumb vortexes from modification with hardcore downplaying?
Bonus category: Kung Lao/Kung Jin continue Kung family tradition and get nerfs to damage and tools they don't use while retaining everything dumb. So despite every patch changing them they both remain top 5.
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