I mean I don’t like the attitudes because they are not needed but as far as I know qwark attends tourneys and is probably involved with the inner circle some what, he knows he shit but comes off as smarmy so people tend to ignore the knowledge he drops and tend to focus more on his attitude.
Oak is similar in this regard(the irony of him and qwark not really liking each other is hilarious)
I think MagicMan is a legit troll though.
The reason I come off as snarky is because this site is pure entertainment in how wrong and "hardcore casual" 70% of character forums are, even my own. The whining and straight up misinformation is absolutely ridiculous, and dropping in to say "nah it aint like that, stay free" in a couple of subforums every couple days is too much entertainment, especially when the posters are so out of touch with reality.
Especially because everyone is having a meltdown with how this game is returning to very simple footsies, and the people that complain are constantly losing their shit 24-7 and holding grudges for months over a character instead of... actually switching and playing someone who does the things they enjoy doing well?
But hey, if you want non-snarky knowledge, here's some.
JC is a very honest footsie based character. He plays the footsies and movement portion pretty well. Some character he does bad against because he's not as effective in footsies as they are, and his forceballs whiff. Those were nerfed in this patch. Rejoice.
His D4 leads into his best strings. Those strings are how you open people up. His B34 is a godlike low that reaches very far and is hitconfirmable into full combo. You know why that string is so good? Because it's a very long range low, catching people walking back. A lot of JCs frametraps involve the opponent having their movement restricted because of that string, which is why they stand still or press buttons, both of which you can take advantage of and punish.
This is just an outline on how good B34 is, without even going into his + frames, other buttons, baits, character specific situations or interactions.
His projectile is very good. Can legit counterzone some chars, throw it as a quick check in footsies, frametrap with it, etc. Frametrapping comes last. Vs chars that have to take the forceballs, cage is + off of nearly everything he does, while a bunch of chars end up point blank on block. Cage is like a different version of cassie in this aspect, where she has fast buttons and HAD a 0 frame ex shadow kick to continue her spacing game with, he has slower buttons and + on block, for a similar situation. Off of certain strings or forceball situations, the most optimal way to get out of his range is backdashing for some characters, and you can forceball that as well.
The same comes off of his + on block strings that you jail from D4 or take advantage of them respecting B34 to do them, which essentially is a loop of his pressure. The char is made to contest you in footsies, check you with a good projectile, make you want to squirm and punish you for it.
Or you could look at other, more straightforward and easier chars, and complain. But to say that JC is a bad character, his buttons are shit and he can't play footsies? Only someone who can't do that could possibly project that onto this kind of moveset.
And I'm not in an inner circle or anything, just have experience over a variety of years and fighting games, which you or anyone else can do too, as well as having Nikolas be my offline/online training partner. Here is a timestamp of how he plays, and how you should be looking to play the character for reference.
r on the ground: option to train this out haha. Leads to me getting lit up a lot. Chars I have a lot of issues with are Jacqui and Skarlet. I need to lab out skarlet but I dont run into her that much.
