Dizzy is an amazing player that has his opinion that rightly carries more weight than mine. However I'm not going to default to his opinion when I feel the opposite on the whole prepatch Kenshi vs Kitana thing.
Of course its ridiculous that people judge a character by its reps instead of the character itself, but that's what has been happening. Though I don't understand why people would want to avoid a comment like mine, I'm fairly neutral in this whole thing and think both sides have a point.
I agree that she needs help, but not to the extent some Kitana players say she does. But this is why I don't like comparing or focusing on entire characters in this game, it goes deeper than that. They could focus on helping just one Kitana variation(for now) to give her a variation with a higher theoretical tier placement, which is much easier than trying to balance 3 variations at once if they're stuck and don't know what to do with an entire character.
Also, people are saying not every character can be top tier, and thats fine. However I think its entirely reasonable to expect that every character should have at least 1 variation that's high or top tier, and as is the game is pretty close to achieving that already. There are only a few characters imo that don't have that, and while Kitana is one of them she's not the only one. I think a variation tier list could have 35+ variations in the high to top tier spot, so why not aim for something like that and give help to those lacking a slot?
It's fine and dandy if a character is not top tier or even great in a game. But when a character is so blatenly not finished it becomes frustrating for the people that play her.
If you actually read the Kitana forums or where part of it, you would see that we don't complain, we try to help eachother, and talk about shit. Even Bit has been back in there, offering advice, and strats, it's actually a nice little vibe.
The bad vibe we have is from a few people, and then there are all the other people that shit on us because we are not happy. Well we have a right to not be happy.
How can you "add" a move in one patch, and change a little bit of frame data in another. Say a move got damage buff but it actually didn't. And try to tell me that at launch this character was complete. How can you have a character with that bad of frame data compared to the rest of the cast. It's not about a 50/50 for her. 95% of people on this site DON"T even know why she is bad, and it makes it funny to read what everone says about her.
Look at the Kenshi Hotfix, is it so far out there to think, the character just got "finished". like they had a time crunch and a buncha shit on there plate, and didn't get around to finishing balancing his frames before launch and in the first month, so they finally got around to it? Who really knows, but that is alot of addjustments to make Just like that.
I mean, I can't imagine they were sitting there, after launch working on DLC and thought, Oh shit guys, Kitana needs a low starter, someone make that animation up and lets throw it in here really quick, no, to me that was suppose to be in there day 1. That was a planned move that they didn't have time to test and have in on launch day. The game is still being finished, right up until the last patch.
So while everyone sits around thinking she is getting little Buffs here and there. I'm sitting here thinking, they will finish her by the last patch, which I think will be Oct, and they are taking there time because there is the potential to break her and make her too good if things aren't done properly. They have the advantage of seeing how things are playing out now, and making sure things are balanced by the end.
If she ends up being a shitter in the end, so be it. But people really need to stop shitting on the Kitana Community, because people that main the character have a right to be upset, and yes, I believe Kenshi was better then Kitana before he got his fixes.
I think the people that shit on the Kitty community are the people that lose to her consistently, which makes them salty because they aren't smart enough to figure out why she is bad, or how to beat her, which basically just means they are bad players.
So stay free to Kitana and long live the fuckin Princess of Edenia.
Rant over (i'm at work and very tired, I had a good point to make then I just side tracked off, so whatever lol)