No. I do not work for NRS. I defend against idiotic comments of MKX "dying" as someone that has been deeply rooted into the NRS player community since it's start in 2011.
And it's not even that, those characters at the top have great mobility, pressure, and good armour too. 50/50's are always thrown under the bus, they aren't necessarily the problem.
I know, Konjurer is flying under the radar a bit, but after a bit of labbing you can see after his 114 (IIRC)xxEgg setups he gets 2 safe 50/50s and if you guess wrong either time you're gonna be eating around 60+ percent or siginficantly lower damage into the same setup. And he probably has more undiscovered dirt too. Konjurer does largely the same thing as Tarkatan and Acidic, I just believe after the nerfs he does it better.
Credit goes to @zoofs
Last season finals had over 45k viewers......... Seems like a good number to me.
I know my last argument was a bit vague but I'm not sifting through pages of threads just to prove a point, you can have that one.
Last year MKX closing EVO registration # was (1162) coming in 4th place with Melee (1869), Smash 4 (1926) and USIV (2227). I would love to see if MKX number grows this year. If, not I think its safe to say the game is slowly losing interest. Will it die? No, but the scene will continue to shrink overall.
To add to your point and its been stated many times. There isn't any reward in being defensive in this game. You block a 50/50 and you're still at a disadvantage for blocking correctly. I'm not a game dev, but that doesn't make sense to me one bit.
Meaty vs grab?
Think about how much this would further tip the scales in favor of rush down fast meter building characters. I really don't see a way around the fact that if NRS truly wanted to "buff" defense, they would simply need to nerf offense.
Into set ups? HTBs, standing resets, vortex, safe armor breaking set ups etc.
No I know MKX is bullshit Im asking if the 50-50s in SFV you are talking about are grab vs meaty scenarios or something else
I think he's referring to some characters having an option to do an overhead like Ken, Nash, Laura, Karin, Birdie and ETC. All don't lead into a combo, but the option of a meaty 50/50 is there just less subtle as oppose to MKX.
dosn't ESL Season 3 get like 400ish and 600ish every week in the EU and NA groups? Plus the Cups?
MKX is their magnum opus
Those are not 50-50s though, those are reactable overheads, overheads arent what create a 50-50 guessing game when you can block them on reaction, SF overheads are more about conditioning than guessing, and even then they are mostly still unsafe. A straight up guess would be if someone like Mika resets you in the corner and now you are guessing between meaty crush counter or command grab
If anything MK9 was. Only issue with the game was character balance but the unique feel will never be replicated just like melee. MKX is smash 4 lol
that's cuz internet. and it's all "OMG someone said something I disagree with on internet I am going to make sure they know!"
this post right here is what every single person on this website should understand before they ever use the term "50/50" in any post. If you are not guessing either right or wrong, IT'S NOT A 50/50. If someone uses a low or an overhead and it's slow enough to react to, that's not a 50/50. if you have options that work for defending a situation besides guessing to block high or low, it's not a 50/50. People see a character that has an overhead.... and even if the overhead is like 30 frames people are still like "wtf stupid 50/50s god."
Thanks for the explanation. That actually makes perfect sense.
name 1 loyalist who's won a major that wasn't with a top tier character. Matter of fact an American major where the competition is real. I've literally seen a tournament with 4 tanyas in top 4 before they nerfed her lol. But hey that's good for the game right. Where are those tanya loyalists now? What about the lao loyalists huh? I'll tell u they're alien and mileena players now cuz they're braindead and top tier
What if we count @SonicFox5000 as a loyalist to the entire cast xD
