Right now it seems that some divekicks are drastically better than others e.g superman and wonderwoman
then you have gimmicky ass divekicks like DDs MB air venom the risk and reward of which are just dumb, hooray for a 24% combo for hitting your opponent only with the divekick part of air venom which only happens if your opp doesn't know it has armour or is caught off guard. I say let MB air venom crossup in many more situations, fix the hitbox, let the players decide the range of the divekick manually and allow it to combo with a B3 even if the original MB air venom hits you, doomsday heavily needs this because MB air venom is almost useless right. I have found some new tech i will be sharing later tho
Why should a character like WW have hers hit overhead? It is a basic part of her corner play but its already an otg and + on block, lets not keep it overhead.
Superman on the other hand, should not be nerfed in the slightest because we know he's getting nerfed, let's see what the nerfs are about and then we can decide. If he loses his damage or his main tool , f23 , he will be almost nothing and will need his OTG which unlike WWs is full combo on block.
Things to note though, WW is a much better char than superman and doesn't rely only on one gameplan and the community so far is 3 months into the game with this logic
Month 1 = nerf dis nerf dat omg supermeng
Month 2 = Scorpion, nothing else.
Month 3 = supes le poops won EVO, nerf. No current understanding of how his zoning is supposed to be used and everyone is judging off of those who panicked in the top 8 of evo and even went as far to be humiliated by having their braindead opponent drop their combo on purpose and go for a 32 fucking frame overhead.
TBH I don't wanna rant about superman but lets let this evolve, superman being number 1 has been burnt in this communitys mind for a long time when he's not even the best
When it comes to acrobatic divekicks, sensitive territory, you don't wanna nerf or buff anything, you already see all the acrobatics are in top 10 ( flash, kf , manface ) without even proper interactible usage, giving them that is ridiculous, my suggestions are to let the player decide where he's gonna divekick, no autotracking. On whiff its death, on block it can build a lot of meter and let the character be at +5 for using such a seemingly not good interactible.
leave batmans and lobos as it is, except maybe give lobo something extra for landing this move.
Adams is just fine, i'd say it should be nerfed to the ground but the characters design is so fucking stupid ( and this coming from one of the first people to get their hands on him even pre release ) . Its not just one move, its a lot of fucking moves, when i was finding dirt with this character, stages, b2 throw, b2 throw mechanics and general frametraps from ex lightning I was disgusted.
There is tech I had found that doesn't even go to use anymore, you still actually see people like rico suave and godspeed do B2 trait 112 without even understanding just what they can do, B2 trait throw instead is 14%. 14% you can do nothing about and that damage is on tech, reverses momentum, gets the opp off you and allows you to go back fullscree nbefore they recover. dont even get me started on ex lightning.
point being, people still dont abuse the ridiculous dirt adam has. noone has seen adams dirt in tournament yet, thats whats so scary, noone is even doing B2 trait instant divekick which is a free 48% if they dont block backwards.
TBH, i'd nerf the divekicks damage scaling bad. Right now you see people without the execution to do the 48% combo which is doable from wherever the divekick hits you, what happens when someone uses this character to their max potential? what if someone gets a hitbox or has good execution and starts doing safe ass yolo ex divekicks with the amount of meter adam builds and gets 48% off of them 100% of the time? So far adam is the character that gets the most free shit out of anyone in the cast and hes so fucking ignored because the people out there winning with him dont abuse his true dirt.
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