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I Am Gotham's Reckoning -- Bane General Discussion Thread

RYX

BIG PUSHER
It might not be so safe when a character has reach.

The King of Atlantis may be fearsome for Banes and Strokes alike :p
Push back and the block stun is insane. I don't think it will be a very wide window, if at all, to punish.

Normal Charge has armor in the start up frames as well.
 

Doombawkz

Trust me, I'm a doctor
Dat body splash cross up.
Also that spine shatter. Good damage and I can see the combos blooming.
2 hit 32% madness going on in stream. That charge level 3 just ate through an Ares super.
 
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Deleted member 5032

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Can Bane do anything against Aquaman? Do his armored moves allow him to get through Aquaman's crazy water shield? If not, I literally don't see how Bane, Doomsday, or any other pure melee fighter can even kind of fight Aquaman.
 

Doombawkz

Trust me, I'm a doctor
That or we get a free set-up while he is doing it. After all, we operate on a cooldown timer. Him shielding is good for us since thats time taken away from his offense.
 
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Did you guys see the Knightfall Bane in action on stream earlier? He looks sweet as hell.
 

Dayvo

My english it's not good
Charge is way better than I though. As far as we see, his command grab with venom will provide him an unvaluable tool punishing pokes. His combos also looks very simples and they do a lot damage. And down + medium (I guess) has an incredible range with combo potential!
 

AK Gookus

Slant-eyed Nightwing
So I found my new favorite Russian streamer this morning...cause he went into the lab and broke down some of Bane's stuff after a few online matches. Loving this character even more now!
(If you want a link to it, PM me cause I'm not sure if i'm supposed to be posting it)
Edit:...I think they just removed the link. But I'm trying to save the video now. I'm going to go ahead and type out a breakdown of it though.
RE-EDIT: Yay the link's working again. So I really should just delete my original edit <.<
 

RYX

BIG PUSHER
From the stream(spoiler'd if you don't want to read it)

He has a 3-hit string with the first two being a low and the second launching. Could have mix-ups with overhead cancels using meter.

Has three overhead strings, two of them launch(one seems faster than the other), the other sends them full screen. I think the AA grab will change since these two seem to launch them at different angles; could be useful to note.

Command grab cannot be blocked; does close to 20% and 22% with meter. Back throw sends them some distance away while forward keeps them somewhat close. I see Reptile-like throwing games for keep-away/rushdown.

His ground bounce looks kind of suckish. Takes a while to recover on hit and the player wasn't able to combo off of it, could be wrong here.
 

Doombawkz

Trust me, I'm a doctor
Something I noticed is that his venom interacts differently based on the projectile. Like level 1 let him eat through deathstroke pistols, level 2 let him eat through the machine gun, and level 3 let him eat through everything in existance.
 

Alcarion

Gym rat
I've tried the game, and i went in directly and played with Bane, my impression of the character after playing him for a few days is not the best one... His combos are easy and damaging, that's a given you have to use his venom i feel inside his combos because with Bane once you land a combo you want it to hurt bad and venom has no activation period you guys already know that.

So all those combo videos you guys see of Bane players activating venom and then jumping in that will almost never happen in a match trust me! You can see Bane jump in from a mile away and characters like Aquaman who has the sickest anti air ever will truly mess you up!

Here's the kicker with Bane he does great damage, and once you get people in the corner the match is his straight up, but getting in is almost impossible at times against the zoners, yes venom grants you up to 3 points of armor against projectiles but only during specials unlike Lex luthor's armor or Doomsday those are armors go through projectiles and normals!

I guess what i'm trying to say is Bane does the job, but ultimately he's very limited in his move set, you will learn one combo and that's it there's no reason to combo ever into his punches or air grab all his combos must end with either his command grab or his super. I found myself bored of repeating the same motions and the same combo after a while. I probably won't end up maining him he just feels very limited and i don't see any secret tech being found with this guy he's just one sided as hell.
 

SUPARNOVAX

Low tier? I was born in it, molded by it
You can confirm into venom boost and then setup wake up. Reset grabs are good with Bane too. It's not about fancy combos on this character.
 

IceNine

Tired, But Strong
Which is a lot of why I'm interested in playing him, personally. Combocraft is a very dull part of fighting games (for me), I'm all about keeping it short and simple.
 

Alcarion

Gym rat
That's totally fine guys, i'm just predicting that he'll be pretty standard low mid tier but that's just my opinion he really doesn't have much going for him except for the grab and the charge... And that charge even on level 3 Venom will not help against zoners like Deathstroke.

here's a prime example of how easy it is to keep Bane out http://www.twitch.tv/nycfurby/b/390110748 match at 3:08/09 GL vs Bane
 

Alcarion

Gym rat
It was already shown that his charge went through DS's zoning.
Yeah let's say for instance Bane had a level 3 charge and deathstroke fired right in his face depending on the position of the screen bane could absorb the 3 hits and hit Deathstroke before the rest of his shots actually hit Bane. But why risk shooting firing so close to Bane? Arturo had the right idea just kite him get away and then zone...
 

RYX

BIG PUSHER
Yeah let's say for instance Bane had a level 3 charge and deathstroke fired right in his face depending on the position of the screen bane could absorb the 3 hits and hit Deathstroke before the rest of his shots actually hit Bane. But why risk shooting firing so close to Bane? Arturo had the right idea just kite him get away and then zone...
It worked from full screen lol
 

shaowebb

Get your guns on. Sheriff is back.
So I found my new favorite Russian streamer this morning...cause he went into the lab and broke down some of Bane's stuff after a few online matches. Loving this character even more now!
(If you want a link to it, PM me cause I'm not sure if i'm supposed to be posting it)
Edit:...I think they just removed the link. But I'm trying to save the video now. I'm going to go ahead and type out a breakdown of it though.
RE-EDIT: Yay the link's working again. So I really should just delete my original edit <.<
Dont you EVER tell people to PM you for links to ANYTHING that breaks copyright. If its not supposed to be posted here don't try to use your private messages to give people links to folks who shouldn't have the game. Consider this an unofficial warning on that.

Also Bane was all over the Arturo stream that was official that ran for 6 hours. Feel free to post and talk about that.


EDIT: If your streams were by folks allowed to stream then thats fine, but if so state that for me and I'll check them out and more than gladly apologize if its verified. Just understand that if this was a post saying "hey guys illegal stream showing embargo-ed content" then yes I had to play strict mod on it. Thats part of the job. Sorry if this offends, but mods have to do this.
 

SUPARNOVAX

Low tier? I was born in it, molded by it
That's totally fine guys, i'm just predicting that he'll be pretty standard low mid tier but that's just my opinion he really doesn't have much going for him except for the grab and the charge... And that charge even on level 3 Venom will not help against zoners like Deathstroke.

here's a prime example of how easy it is to keep Bane out http://www.twitch.tv/nycfurby/b/390110748 match at 3:08/09 GL vs Bane
We don't know if that guy has any experience with Bane at all. Low level play doesn't look good.
 

Doombawkz

Trust me, I'm a doctor
True true. I feel Bane is going to have the most trouble with people like (hate to admit it) Batman and Joker, the parry characters. We are telegraphed in a lot of ways, so as much as I want to just be a character specialist we would need someone to cover those areas. Grundy would be the best secondary to Bane imo, his playstyle being similar enough to not draw away from the practice (since, for me at least, if characters are too dynamically different I begin to become average at both while if they are somewhat similar, I become better).

Also to my knowledge, Grundys grabs aren't able to be parried. With Bane we'd need to make a hard read on some projectile game, pop some venom and pay our way in just to get a little damage and a bit of oki.
 

Alcarion

Gym rat
Can Bane pop venom mid-air? If so, those "best anti-airs in the game" might get eaten through by venom armor.
Just like RYX said he has armor only on special moves not on normals unlike Lex Luthor's trait or Doomsday! Those will blow through anything.