Hello everybody, as many of you know, there is a special place in my heart for Ermac. I was, and am a character loyalist.
I usually don't go into these nerf/buff/debuff discussions, but today, i might as well do exactly that.
I think that with this post, i will say out loud opinions of the majority of Ermac community. You can (and always must) take all this with a grain of salt. But i will repeat myself, that i have hard feeling, that majority of Ermac community feels same way as i do.
At the moment of writing this post, out of 3 character variations, only one is not only tournament-valid, but generally solid as well. Here, don't start chasing me with term tournament-valid just yet. It is just a generalization i want to use to make NRS see how much Master of Souls variation outclasses Mystic and Spectral variations.
Spectral: even before the release of mkx, people started asking questions: "what the hell is up with that variation?" (you can find thread dated to 19 February
here)
But we, as we always do, dismissed those claims, and said that "it's too early to judge".
But now, i think every Ermac player acknowledges that picking Spectral variation is pure suicide. And don't start with me that there will probably be discovered match-ups that this variation will be not only viable, but quite good. Because - NO. Spectral in his current state will never be viable.
Mystic: Before last patch, when Mystic's tele-hang got either fixed, either nerfed, i would say that MoS outclassed Mystic to 70% to 30%. Comparing them is not hard at all. MoS had tremendous amount of setups, tremendous amount of meterless damage, godlike but unsafe vortex, and generally quite alright zoning. Mystic on the other hand had quite interesting tool which was telehang, It was basically the only tool that was viable in that variation. Don't even get me started at telepush being like -100 on block...
I will not talk in this post about specific strings and frame data, because there are more competent people here who can do that
@zaf @insignis .
All i wanted to do is play Ermac and all his variations on a level, where it wouldn't be considered masochism. I know what it feels like playing low tier character, having spent 4 years with Nightwolf in mk9. And i will not go through that again with 2 thrash variations... which basically leaves me with just 1 viable variation.
I am sorry if my post is pompous, but i will repeat myself for the hundred time, this is the notion that WHOLE ERMAC COMMUNITY SHARES. i just had the time to write it up.
