I think he's going to be pretty solid, though I did vote they balanced him poorly. Mid tier easily.
From a purely tournament perspective, maybe he is "dead", because most likely some of the other zoners will just do what he does a little bit better.. but for almost everyone else, he's going to be thoroughly playable.. He's just not an I Win button vs some characters.
Foxy mentioned it earlier in saying his design was bad. I agree. I also agree with Crazy when he said he was cancer to the game.. he was. He was single-handedly responsible for who knows how many people quitting the game entirely or never trying it to begin with, and we can be elitist about it and scream GIT GUD at the wall all we want, but that is still extremely bad design. It sucks for DS players, but I do think, if you genuinely played the character because you LIKED the character and not because he was a win button, after some adjustment to how he's played, he will do just fine. I dont like to say this, but it means DS players have to deal with the game most of the rest of us have been playing this whole time, ie meter management, some bad MUs, MU specific playstyles etc. I know that statement will piss off some DS players and Im sorry - I dont mean it in a snotty, pissy HAHAHA kinda way at all, but it is true. All I personally wanted to see happen to DS was a large meter gain nerf.
I feel like if they intended to nerf WC like they did, and in an all around health-of-the-game sense, it was a smart nerf (just probably not the correct one), it should have been accompanied by a small damage buff to his combos.. Very small, but something.
But honestly though, he still has absolutely everything else he's always had, and WC isn't some ultra slow and unusable garbage.
