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AZ MotherBrain

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I think she will probably a rush down based character that's easy to pick up. I plan on using her as a second to Sadira
 

xWildx

What a day. What a lovely day.
She's going to be an unsafe, 50/50 based mixup character with fast normals and low damage.
 

CamChattic

Eternal Champion of Justice
Why do people think shes gonna be rushdown She has always been about laming it out landing a projectile and eating half your life away while threating your approch with safe bullshit thats going to eat the other half of your life away.
 
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Eldriken

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Why do people think shes gonna be rushdown She has always been about laming it out landing a projectile and eating half your life away while threating your approch with safe bullshit thats going to eat the other half of your life away.
Why wouldn't she be a rushdown character? Thunder's a grapple character, so...anything can happen.
 

CamChattic

Eternal Champion of Justice
Why wouldn't she be a rushdown character? Thunder's a grapple character, so...anything can happen.
Thunder also isn't the same thunder he's the originals brother who took his title when he went missing ( how mk is that) plus you knew once they introduced throw and brought mike z on there was gonna be a grappler. There's no reason to believe this orchid is a different orchid until they say they've changed the canon. add in the fact that they Just announced a rushdown pixie Sadira and The other half of Thunders play style is unsafe 50/50 rush down I see no reason she wouldn't PERFECTLY round out the cast with her catty hit and run style.
 
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Eldriken

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Thunder also isn't the same thunder he's the originals brother who took his title when he went missing ( how mk is that) plus you knew once they introduced throw and brought mike z on there was gonna be a grappler. There's no reason to believe this orchid is a different orchid until they say they've changed the canon. add in the fact that they Just announced a rushdown pixie Sadira and The other half of Thunders play style is unsafe 50/50 rush down I see no reason she wouldn't PERFECTLY round out the cast with her catty hit and run style.
In all honesty, it doesn't matter to me what her play style is. She's going to be my main regardless, just as she was in KI and KI 2. I just want some gameplay footage. :/
 

Vulcan Hades

Champion
So much for "the triangle" and "the core four".:tonyt

Sadira is a 5th archetype that will undoubtely beat zoning, mid-range and grappling and go 5-5 at worst vs rushdown. Mark my words people don't even realize how important mobility is.

I also can't help but wonder who else will play like Sadira. Because surely she can't be the only aerial character in the game. I mean if they bothered to work on this launcher/juggle mechanic they're gonna use it for other characters as well. But I can't figure out who would else would fit this.. stupid ass marvel playstyle.

OR DH might try to make every single character play as uniquely as possible. Which could mean that Orchid could be a counter character or gadget character and that we might maybe see even weirder playstyles.

This is both good and bad. Good because KI3 will have a diverse roster with very different playstyles. Bad because the more diversity you have, the less balanced the game will inevitably be.
 

Vulcan Hades

Champion
She's going to be an unsafe, 50/50 based mixup character with fast normals and low damage.
Have you even watched the microsoft streams lol. Aside from Jago's DP, not a single move in KI3 is punishable on block so far. Even the moves that are supposed to be "super unsafe" appear to be -2 on block because the devs can't even mash punish.

Of course all the frame data can still change before launch and even after launch they can always tweak it.

But it could also be a sign of their gameplay intentions/direction. Maybe they want KI3 to be that safe to cater to casual players that don't understand concepts like frame disadvantage. Because it can be frustrating for noobs to throw a special move and get punished by a big combo. So my bet is that there will be very few truly punishable moves and a lot of "neutral" +0 situations.
 
Thunder also isn't the same thunder he's the originals brother who took his title when he went missing ( how mk is that) plus you knew once they introduced throw and brought mike z on there was gonna be a grappler. There's no reason to believe this orchid is a different orchid until they say they've changed the canon. add in the fact that they Just announced a rushdown pixie Sadira and The other half of Thunders play style is unsafe 50/50 rush down I see no reason she wouldn't PERFECTLY round out the cast with her catty hit and run style.
The new Thunder is the same person as the Thunder from the original game. His brother, Eagle, is the one that went missing.
 

CamChattic

Eternal Champion of Justice
The new Thunder is the same person as the Thunder from the original game. His brother, Eagle, is the one that went missing.
Ah ok when they Were giving the whole bit about Lookin for his brother and changing his name to thunder I had assumed thats what they meant.
 
Ah ok when they Were giving the whole bit about Lookin for his brother and changing his name to thunder I had assumed thats what they meant.
It's ok. I can see how that might confuse people. The story is a convoluted mess due to KI2 being 2000 years in the past, or something like that, and then the new game is back in the same time period as the first game. It's all kinds of messed up. I guess that's typical of fighting games though.
 

GLoRToR

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It's ok. I can see how that might confuse people. The story is a convoluted mess due to KI2 being 2000 years in the past, or something like that, and then the new game is back in the same time period as the first game. It's all kinds of messed up. I guess that's typical of fighting games though.
It's not their excellent story writing we play them for, no.
Though mk9 had its moments.