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Did Black Adam Really Deserve The Scorpion Treatment?

Did Black Adam Deserve The Scorpion Treatment?

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DevilMaySpy

DevilMaySpy

Mama's Little Bumgorf
Just wondering what everyone's thoughts are on the subject. It looks like NRS castrated him, while giving Superman fraudulent nerfs.
 
cpmd4

cpmd4

Slaughter is the Best Medicine
We don't even know the extent of the changes. Remember a few patches back when Superman's damage got nerfed, and it turned out to be really, really minor? His dashes are slightly slower, more in line with the rest of the cast. And we don't know how much distance was removed. Trait changes don't do much at all.
 
A F0xy Grampa

A F0xy Grampa

Problem X Promotions
cpmd4 said:
We don't even know the extent of the changes. Remember a few patches back when Superman's damage got nerfed, and it turned out to be really, really minor? His dashes are slightly slower, more in line with the rest of the cast. And we don't know how much distance was removed. Trait changes don't do much at all.
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Black Adam
· Boot Stomp now has a block advantage of -21 (down from -15) <- This means that the divekick is now actually punishable, say at the lowest point in the current version, even if the DK was -3 on block, it means that people can punish with 9f normals.

· Increased the duration of the front dash to 18 frames (up from 16) <- This means that his ex divekick will be worse, the frames lost during his front dash will mean he will gain less advantage from a low hitting ex divekick.

· Slightly increased the amount of damage scaling on combos. <- Basically just rubs shit in the wound


These are things you dont need to see the patched version to know.
 
Pan1cMode

Pan1cMode

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As far as I'm aware, EX boot stomp is still safe no? Or did they change that too?

Just don't do raw meterless dive kicks all the time. The backdash nerf was justified, but I don't see why they touched his front dash.

I think one of the biggest changes to Adam however is the fact that his lightning lost it's anti-air hitbox.

I don't think he was nerfed all that hard. Yes, he was nerfed; but he wasn't nerfed scorpion bad. I think he could've done without some of the 'normalisations' but all in all he's still a very solid character.
 
Gesture Required Ahead

Gesture Required Ahead

Get on that hook
I like how TYM's BnB argument when somebody gets nerfed is "X players have to use their heads to win now" you guys keep admitting every patch that this game is braindead. And you say that as if YOUR character doesn't take an IQ of more than 50 to play.
 
THTB

THTB

Arez | Booya | Riu48 - Rest Easy, Friends
Was Black Adam hit pretty hard? For sure. The laming aspect of his game (which is pretty damn important for him) took a HUGE blow. Backdash not only nerfed in speed, but range...forward dash nerf affecting MB divekick stuff...damage scaled back yet again...strike's hitbox is pretty much the same as Killer Frost's iceberg now...less uptime and more downtime for trait...black magic no longer imbues post-b3 status to possibly slightly offset the damage scaling increase. That's a lot of shit negatively changed, and that's not even going into the system and stage changes that hurt him.

Was it deserving? Meh, who cares? If the character's viable, he's viable. It hurts a lot, though, and Black Adam players (should they stick to him) are going to have to relearn what they should be doing in certain situations. There's no telling how everything else will work in a vacuum, or whether these hamper him too much or not enough. But eh, that's the life of a game that receives patches. Things change.

So basically, the answer is "we'll see."
 
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