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Soul Calibur 6: THE SOUL STILL BURNS!

JBeezYBabY

Mr. Righteous
Seong Mina is for terrible people. That said you already play Groh, so might as well...

Talim is pretty hard though, so keep that in mind.
JBeezY Likes hard, duh ;)

Thinking of Seong Mina because her kit pisses me off, so why not learn it to get better.

Talim because I had soooo much fun with her in the beta and i used to dabble with her a bit in SC2. Her gameplan is the same as X but everybody wants to be X now. I like playing underdog characters to make my victory that much more rewarding.

BUT

I'm thinking more Seong Mina first over Talim
 

JBeezYBabY

Mr. Righteous
Welp. Back from vacation and so many game related things have happened including a new patch, 1.12, went live. Apparently its focusing on stabilizing online features which is what I really wanted for them to focus on but havent played since ive been back.

Does anybody know anybody know what those changes are? And do you feel a difference thats better or worst online ?Question mark?
 

Gooberking

FGC Cannon Fodder
I spent about an hour last night getting bodied by everyone. I didn't know what the patch was about, but I don't remember getting any network errors which typically happens.

Hard to say something is better without more time. I guess I will have to get knocked around a little more - for testing's sake.
 

JBeezYBabY

Mr. Righteous
It sucks that the scene for this game is barely non-existent. I mean, theres no SoCal scene for this game and the only tournament players that are being shown is the dudes from New York. Everybody else is garbage ass casual scrubs with scrub mentality that im REALLY getting sick of.

Once MK11 drops, I'm probably dropping this game.
 

Sutter Pain

Your mothers main.
It sucks that the scene for this game is barely non-existent. I mean, theres no SoCal scene for this game and the only tournament players that are being shown is the dudes from New York. Everybody else is garbage ass casual scrubs with scrub mentality that im REALLY getting sick of.

Once MK11 drops, I'm probably dropping this game.
All I ever hear about socal when it comes to the NRS scene is that its very small and I hear people complain its dead pretty often.
 

Sutter Pain

Your mothers main.
Id rather have a small SoCal scene than NO SoCal scene.
Take it with a grain of salt the most vocal person about it is kind of a tool so maybe no one wants to play with him. What really sucks is no more WNF used to love watching that during injustice the commentary was so good.
 

Gooberking

FGC Cannon Fodder
It sucks that the scene for this game is barely non-existent. I mean, theres no SoCal scene for this game and the only tournament players that are being shown is the dudes from New York. Everybody else is garbage ass casual scrubs with scrub mentality that im REALLY getting sick of.

Once MK11 drops, I'm probably dropping this game.
Thanks for the insults!
 

JBeezYBabY

Mr. Righteous
Thanks for the insults!
Im just keeping it all the way live. Im not talking about skill level, its people's mindsets thats so entry level when you should want to be next level. But no no no....lets stay at the bottom a d drag everybody else down with us who dont think nerfing everything wrong is a pile of shit.

How u kids say? TOXIC!? Yeah...thats the current SC6 scene. Take it how u want it but this is what MY current experience with this game.
 

Dr. Cheesesteak

pygophile and podophile
Im just keeping it all the way live. Im not talking about skill level, its people's mindsets thats so entry level when you should want to be next level. But no no no....lets stay at the bottom a d drag everybody else down with us who dont think nerfing everything wrong is a pile of shit.

How u kids say? TOXIC!? Yeah...thats the current SC6 scene. Take it how u want it but this is what MY current experience with this game.
How has the community been toxic? Honest question, I haven't witnessed anything really bad. Some insults on twitch streams, complaints of Project Soul, etc. But nothing that made me feel unwelcome or I'd think made others feel unwelcome. Is it your local scene?

But yeah, it is sad to see how the West Coast isn't particularly huge on SC. Most top tourney players are EC (Xephukai the only WC'er? If NV even counts?). My own local monthly (Sacramento) had 33 ppl in our first SC6 even in Oct. I was ecstatic - the return of my 2nd favorite FG franchise was coming in strong! Usually a top non-new game has about 20ish entrants. The monthly tourney was on break for Nov/Dec. It returned in January and SC6 wasn't even an event. :confused: I'm hoping it returns in February, but my hopes aren't high.

Other recent showings for SC6 in NorCal - SacAnime had like 9 entrants for its SC6 tournament (compared to ~30 for DBFZ, ~20 for Tekken, even ~15 for Killer Instinct!) and WNF Oakland this week I think also had just 9.

It's weird b/c the Bay Area/East Bay DOES have a solid, dedicated group of SC players. But they just aren't really showing up for tourneys I guess. For Sac, I never really expected SC to be huge, but to go from 33 players to not even an event from one monthly to another? Made no sense to me...
 

SaSSolino

Soul Stealing Loyalist
So yesterday, while I was playing with my SC6 group, we all kind of started posting our own tier lists, and I wanted to post mine here too:

http://www.mmcafe.com/tiermaker/sc6/index_customize.html?tc=ya0-trbuejhna7qg42ni7gbtb7tc32nj42ho7geqa78xekhpdibv6g60a7kl7gnhb4qf7gkn42erfi60ek8wb78vhh00lokmdi00nk-bkf-naSaSSolino-tiTier Chart-ct999999-c1FFFFFF-c2EEEEEE-tvFF7101-thDD3C3C-d1Top Tier-x110-d2Bottom Tier-x210-d3Respectable-x310-d4Cancerous-x410

It was made in like 5 minutes, so feel free to tell me why I'm wrong and I should quit the game. Unless you play Groh (@JBeezYBabY) or Kilik (@Tundra81), in which case you are wrong and you should quit the game.

EDIT: Tweeked the tier list.
 
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Dr. Cheesesteak

pygophile and podophile
So yesterday, while I was playing with my SC6 group, we all kind of started posting our own tier lists, and I wanted to post mine here too:

http://www.mmcafe.com/tiermaker/sc6/index_customize.html?tc=ya0-trhgbgkj7ioe3enh6fem9glj3ehm6fhl8len58ejdlekfr8s568s7cbr6eiyghbq8lhl4abkgzenbl8t9h8ngg00iukbbg-bkf-naSaSSolino-tiTier Chart-ct999999-c1FFFFFF-c2EEEEEE-tvFF7101-thDD3C3C-d1Top Tier-x110-d2Low tier-x210-d3Angel-x310-d4Cancerous-x410

It was made in like 5 minutes, so feel free to tell me why I'm wrong and I should quit the game. Unless you play Groh (@JBeezYBabY) or Kilik (@Tundra81), in which case you are wrong and you should quit the game.
I play Taki, so I agree w/ her placing 100%. Tho, maybe more on the "Angel" side of the spectrum... :cool:
 

Tundra81

Kombatant
I've always felt Kilik was slept on. Can't disagree with his placement at all TBH Sass. I'd move him over to the angel side instead of cancerous but that's a biased opinion.:cool: Some of the lower tiers seem questionable but honestly I stopped playing awhile ago and started grinding MKX and MK9 again. Unless MK11 is a complete flop (highly doubtful) I think I'm going to put Calibur down for a bit.
 
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SaSSolino

Soul Stealing Loyalist
I've always felt Kilik was slept on. Can't disagree with his placement at all TBH Sass. I'd move him over to the angel side instead of cancerous but that's a biased opinion.:cool: Some of the lower tiers seem questionable but honestly I stopped playing awhile ago and started grinding MKX and MK9 again. Unless MK11 is a complete flop (highly doubtful) I think I'm going to put Calibur down for a bit.
Kilik has always been strong, but the buffs are what put him in the highest tier in my opinion. What makes him cancerous is his synergy with GIs though, which are WAY too easy to land in this game and incredibly annoying with super safe characters like Kilik, but yeah that's subjective.

And with MK11 coming out I doubt I'll be playing much SC6 too, but as I said I have a group so I won't be dropping it completely. Feel free to tell me why you disagree with the low tiers though.
 

JBeezYBabY

Mr. Righteous
So yesterday, while I was playing with my SC6 group, we all kind of started posting our own tier lists, and I wanted to post mine here too:

http://www.mmcafe.com/tiermaker/sc6/index_customize.html?tc=ya0-tremblkj7ioe3enh6fem9glj3ehm6fhl9hen58eodphlcm8s568s7cbr6ehkgfbq8lhl4abkgzbpbl8t9h8ngg00lokiak-bkf-naSaSSolino-tiTier Chart-ct999999-c1FFFFFF-c2EEEEEE-tvFF7101-thDD3C3C-d1Top Tier-x110-d2Low tier-x210-d3Angel-x310-d4Cancerous-x410

It was made in like 5 minutes, so feel free to tell me why I'm wrong and I should quit the game. Unless you play Groh (@JBeezYBabY) or Kilik (@Tundra81), in which case you are wrong and you should quit the game.
I mean....LOL I really dont see how Groh is cancereous unless my Black ass is missing some super dirty stuff that make ppl hate him. People are hella over dramatic about Groh. Im not gonna repeat myself about his buffs. Go back a few pages on my thoughts on that.

The higher the levels i go, the more teleports get punished because its easy to punish. Either duck or Super.

Kilik's gameplan is similar to Sieg so i see where the hate comes from. All he needs to do is you on the ground and mix your shit with Oki after oki. Besides that, both are not even as cancerous as you think.
 

SaSSolino

Soul Stealing Loyalist
I mean....LOL I really dont see how Groh is cancereous unless my Black ass is missing some super dirty stuff that make ppl hate him. People are hella over dramatic about Groh. Im not gonna repeat myself about his buffs. Go back a few pages on my thoughts on that.

The higher the levels i go, the more teleports get punished because its easy to punish. Either duck or Super.

Kilik's gameplan is similar to Sieg so i see where the hate comes from. All he needs to do is you on the ground and mix your shit with Oki after oki. Besides that, both are not even as cancerous as you think.
Kilik is too fast and too safe for his range. He starts doing his safe stuff and then can direspect his own frames because:
- his 22/88B is Godlike: it's a safe-ish tech-crouching launcher than leads into huge damage + oki setup.
- his WR buttons are maybe the best in the game.
- GIs have a huge active window of 12 frames, because of that if you try to take your turn with anything that's faster than 18 frames you'll be on the receiving end of his insane post-GI game. And if you do anything slower he can just press more buttons, because again: he's so fast.

In other words he can mix you up when he's in a slight frame disadvantage, meaning after all of his strings. Now you might say "other characters have a similar strenght, have you seen Sophitia's 22/88BAK?", and to that I'd reply: yeah, but Sophitia doesn't have Kilik's range so she actually needs to get in first, doesn't have as many safe strings, has some actually very bad match ups (like Yoshimitsu) and is unsafe when she tries to steal a turn... and I still have her as an high tier.

Besides that he also has the best ring outs in the game and the best soul charge in the game (arguably second to Groh). His wakeup unblockable also is pretty Godlike considering that not only it's super hard (and quite unsafe) to pressure him on oki, but he can mix that up too.

Now Groh is simiar: his range is deceptively long, his damage is dumb and always leads to oki setup, his 66A and 66B have an extremely annoying evasiion, and despite what people want me to belive: he has safe ways to enter his stance. Which he didn't need since unlike most of the cast, he has evasion on his stance too.

Also just like Kilik his soul charge is insane and everything he does is barely minus, allowing him to abuse GIs. Plus he's covered in gimmicks from head to toe, so God forbit your opponent doesn't know the MU.

And before you say anything: I know that Azwel's soul charge is insane and you could argue he has the best one in the game, but after the nerfs it only lasts for 3 SC-only moves. Not joking, try it in the lab.
 

Tundra81

Kombatant
Kilik's biggest weakness is his Oki game, lol. He doesn't have a lot of option outside of SC. Not down playing because he makes up for it in other areas. He is absurdly fast especially considering he has such good range. You're right Sass his WRB is GodLike, along with 22B and 4A is an amazing tool. I feel what separates the good Kilik's from the bad is the ability to manage his SC. If he gets a hold of you it's GG's but good patient players will keep away and let him kill himself. Any way two cents, I just wanted to comment on Kilik's Oki game being strong, that's quite the bill.
 

SaSSolino

Soul Stealing Loyalist
Kilik's biggest weakness is his Oki game, lol.
Isn't his 66B an OTG? And same with that stance move that's so good for ring outs? That's pretty good if your opponent tries to tries to roll out of your mixups in oki, and that's not a bad oki game.

I mean I feel kinda bad insisting since you already agree, and I'm basically beating a dead horse, but it's still worth discussing.

EDIT: Also I'm more scared of his WRK than his WRB personally, but both are dumb.
 
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