Well since she has so many tools like, dashes,command grabs, float,etc. I think she can be quite fun. I'm not sure where she's at in the tier list thoug but by the sounds of it she's pretty bad right? And about her vtrigger, how good is her vTrigger bombs? Aren't they useless unless it's like in a mid combo?
She doesn't have a command grab. Raida isnt a grab. If she had a grab, she would be amazing. Its a totally normal move, blockable and all. Also her float is awful. Unless the person your playing is asleep, they can chase it down and punish you for it outside a couple small situations where you can use it to run like hell from someone. Her dashes are terrible as well. Slow, easy to see, the short dash is worthless outside resets and the MK one will get you blown the hell up unless you have done some serious conditioning.. and even then a savvy player will know he/she can see the dash and blow you up for it. We have some folks here who think these dashes are amazing, and hey, maybe Im wrong and they are super awesome, but for use in neutral to confuse or overwhelm your opponent? Its not going to work against a strong player, once they see it, they will blow you up.
Her bombs are.. eh. Ok. So, they are amazing tools that can accomplish a ton, but unless you're in the corner, you need a hit confirm to put them on the screen and you need to land a reset to make them scary. Ibuki's typical one bomb combo, not in to a reset, does about 375 damage on the top end, and much less depending on what you confirmed in with, and that heavy damage comes off a raw st.fp or cr.fp which you arent going to land very often.. especially given that st.fp is negative as shit and dangerous to throw out unless you cover it with a kunai, a limited resource. A ton of characters get passably similar damage off lik,e a bar of meter off a raw st.fp or somehting.. The damage isnt worth the bleed out required to get them. They need to be used in resets and mixups IMO to be 'worth' it.
She can work some crazy ass bomb reset stuff that does really good damage, but these setups require several kunai, several bars of meter (two isnt several, but whatever), a hit confirm and the opponent can guess correctly or mash a reversal, blah blah, so its not guaranteed.. and so on.
Her bombs are great, but to make them SCARY you have to sit on resources she really needs throughout the match, *and* she has to bleed out to get them. Unless you are just running over them you arent going to get Vtrigger until late in the round when you have low health and little time to make them work, and with her low natural health, she's probably a combo and a stray hit or two from dead by this time.
I wont downplay how powerful her bombs are, they are a great tool, but like *everything* she has, its situational how they are used and they require additional resources to really shine, requiring you, unless you just happen to be in a great position to begin with, to hoard resources and really gamble on the bombs winning the round for you. if you watch a lot of Ibuki play, I see her bombs used effectively and spectacularly, most often when she is already winning and ahead. Its not that I dont see them used when shes behind and really hard pressed, its just that in that situation, a lot of the time, she has had to spend her resources to stay in the fight and a lot of time just doesnt have them on deck by the time Bombs come around. Savvy players are also learning to deal with her when she has bombs, since she's going to be fishing for certain hits to get started.
Ibuki is very fun to play.. but.. she isnt strong and winning with her is an uphill battle. i know we have people here who dont agree, so I'll just say: Play her for yourself and decide.
I do think Ibuki might be a decent Ranked character though if you really master her tricks and such. You dont see her often and a lot of her horseshit will work on people for a match or two, because they never really have time to adjust. But she does lose heavily to the usual rushdown horseshit that is so prevalent in this game. Shrug.
