i think you aren't seeing black adam much, because people prefer to play other characters, not because of the execution barrier, and because prepatch black adam players were beating people because nooone knew how to play the fucking game and we had an evo winner than would dash 3 times up into your face and mash f23
I'm sure Rico, a 6 year Abel player with godlike fundamentals and reads was only winning because nobody knew how to play the game. And Smarrgasm was surely taking advantage of his local scene only playing him for hours and hours every time so he scrubbed out victories.
i wasn't referring to those too, i was talking about the general black adam population. rico doesn't play the game much but he's still good so smarr is the only one left.
Then don't say black adam players. Especially when it doesn't matter because only those 2 players played him in tournament at a high lvl with competition that knew the MU.
Go even or beat Theo and I will believe you.
you are right, godspeed didn't win a major or anything. tournaments weren't littered with black adam players.
fuudo for thought I like that.
Rico was the most dominant BA, Smarrgasm is now. Godspeed won a major but he was not as dominant as Rico.
what are we even talking about anymore??? rico was awesome i know this... all i was arguing is that black adam's lack of tournament use does not reflect the character's abilities.
I am talking about their tech in general and the characters in general and why execution matters between these two at a high level. You don't see many Black Adam players anymore because they don't want to dive into him but Black Adam players are still in abundance online and they definitely know what they are doing. But what do I know. I've only been to 1 injustice tournament and went 3-2. I'm just a random online scrub lol
i don't tend to judge tiers on tournament placings i tend to judge based on the characters tools and how they would play out at the highest level, i will consider whether things are consistent or difficult to react to or overall overwhelming to be realsitic. I think we just theoretically different. Also i don't think the injustice community is large enough to judge tiers based on tournaments, it owuld need to be much bigger with people who invest hours breaking shit down and practicing on tournament standards. Plus you need years for a game to be broken down. It's a theoretical discussion. I tend to lean vary heavy on execution doesn't matter because human beings are capable of extremely high execution, so i tend to forfeit the notion that "easier" = "better" when it comes to competitive play. If we had a player pool like starcraft or even japanese street fighter i think it owuld be different. I also don't think if top player a beats top player b in a set that doesn't mean that much. Even the best player can suck at a matchup.
rico is still good at the game, but nobody was good at the game back then.
Wouldn't by that logic Killer Frost would be top 5 with her 70% just frame reset? And Joker would be able to put you in earth shaker set ups constantly and take away Atleast 40% each touch?
well, how easy is it for killer frost to land a hit on a good opponent??? same goes for joker, if joker has no viable options of touching or getting in on half the cast then how does joker blow anyone up in the first place. As i said, i would factor in things that are simply unreliable, which a just frame might be in the kfrost circumstance, you can't plink in injustice.
BA has 3-7 matchups, DS doesn't.
I almost 100% completely agree. I was just speaking in a general sense. I think some people in this community lab like crazy and just don't share their ways. Also SF players have to lab because the gimmicks in SF aren't anywhere near as heavy as NRS fighters. That being said heavy execution is in all the characters I play so I agree and understand what you are saying. I think alot of people don't lab as much as they should in this game especially when the play a dominant character but lets be honest, how much do you need to lab when you use characters like bane
Can you please play @Peckapowa and body him free so he knows what a superman who knows the MU feels like?
i'm a warmup those zodballs hard - also if i lose i'm not a top zod so how does that prove the matchup?
I don't know the extent of his matchups since I don't play the character. Maybe DS is better. But I start saying things like that, and I can hear @General M2Dave 's accent in the distance yelling at me already.
I used to do extremely well with him when I used him in my local scene, if I dare say he's outside of the top 10 I get called a scrub and that I don't know my own character lol.
