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Question NRS Buffing Alien

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What would you do if NRS buffed Alien in one final patch? Does anyone else see them capable of doing that?
 

colby4898

Special Forces Sonya Up-player
What would you do if NRS buffed Alien in one final patch? Does anyone else see them capable of doing that?
I could see them possible buffing konjurer (although I don't really think he needs it), but I don't think for a second they will buff the other variations.
 

gam224

The world's least hype player
This is giving me PTSD, I still remember brokeshaper and when quan got buffed pre XL #never forget
 

KingKhrystopher

Official Merlin of TYM
Of course, but they would obviously nerf some other aspect. If they nerfed Tail Flip, they'd need to buff the frame data on like, everything else.
 

Tweedy

Noob
Alien could use a few fixes, like Kung Lao did.

He'll probably receive the same fate as Lao and get nothing but nerfs, because top tier boys.
 

M.D.

Spammer. Crouch walk hater.
They left Grandmaster in the game this long without actually SEEING HE BODIES 90% OF THE CAST FREE and everyone is fkn struggling to counterpick it every single fkn time.

So OBVIOUSLY if they buff Alien, GOOD, at least that's an indirect GM nerf.
 
They left Grandmaster in the game this long without actually SEEING HE BODIES 90% OF THE CAST FREE and everyone is fkn struggling to counterpick it every single fkn time.

So OBVIOUSLY if they buff Alien, GOOD, at least that's an indirect GM nerf.
Really he bodies 90% of the cast? But has he even placed top 8 in anything?
 

DDutchguy

Stand 4'ing airplanes out of the sky
If Alien gets meaningfully buffed (as in something major, not just fixes and minor frame data adjustments), I'm sure most of us will need a strong drink when it happens. It'll be buffed Quan all over again.
 

CrazyFingers

The Power of Lame Compels You
If Alien gets meaningfully buffed (as in something major, not just fixes and minor frame data adjustments), I'm sure most of us will need a strong drink when it happens. It'll be buffed Quan all over again.
Pretty much. He definitely needs nerfs that's for sure but like...let's hope he's not another Lao or Tanya situation, hate to see characters nerfed to oblivion
 

DDutchguy

Stand 4'ing airplanes out of the sky
Pretty much. He definitely needs nerfs that's for sure but like...let's hope he's not another Lao or Tanya situation, hate to see characters nerfed to oblivion
Many people just abandoned Lao when he got nerfed. Let's be honest, very few players were not playing Lao just because he used to be so good (Perfect Legend being the exception).

Kobu Jutsu got hit pretty hard, but I believe @Vak Phoenix (full-on Tanya main) thinks she isn't all that bad.
 

MadeOfMetal

Kenshi Srubtastic,Cyrax, Special Forces Mains
What would you do if NRS buffed Alien in one final patch? Does anyone else see them capable of doing that?
they shouldn't nerf or buff anything on her. and probably won't what i hear they think she is fine. when someone complaines about her, they have basically said they are just being a sore loser. they herd the tail flip nerf/F134 nerf and several other nerf sugesstions, and it all came down to, alien only has what others have in the game, a 50/50 whit it being safe for normal version or a way to make it safe, and as for jumping on alien you wouldn't jump on lao or kitana either.

but if they had to nerf Alien it would be the Jump in 2 auto correct. cuz that is unfair and does break the game mechanics.

but they will not buff alien.

most of the bad nerfs or buffs they have made have been from some top players coming to them telling them X character is broke as F, and X move needs adjustment. And sadly they didn't separate tournament players from balance changes. which is the golden rule in Balance adjustment.
 

Dankster Morgan

It is better this way
They left Grandmaster in the game this long without actually SEEING HE BODIES 90% OF THE CAST FREE and everyone is fkn struggling to counterpick it every single fkn time.

So OBVIOUSLY if they buff Alien, GOOD, at least that's an indirect GM nerf.
You have to stop lol. This has gone on too long. What's worse is that some people who like your posts think you're being serious lol.
 

CrazyFingers

The Power of Lame Compels You
they shouldn't nerf or buff anything on her. and probably won't what i hear they think she is fine. when someone complaines about her, they have basically said they are just being a sore loser. they herd the tail flip nerf/F134 nerf and several other nerf sugesstions, and it all came down to, alien only has what others have in the game, a 50/50 whit it being safe for normal version or a way to make it safe, and as for jumping on alien you wouldn't jump on lao or kitana either.

but if they had to nerf Alien it would be the Jump in 2 auto correct. cuz that is unfair and does break the game mechanics.

but they will not buff alien.

most of the bad nerfs or buffs they have made have been from some top players coming to them telling them X character is broke as F, and X move needs adjustment. And sadly they didn't separate tournament players from balance changes. which is the golden rule in Balance adjustment.
Most of the changed Alien needs are hitbox adjustments on the character, the hitboxes on somethings Alien has are absolutely just either busted or not working correctly. This had been the case since day one of this character. The other thing being the tick damage on acidic is...a bit much. Other than that Alien is probably fine.
 

Belial

Noob
Conjurer definitely going to get buffed. Most probably he will get rekkas and ability to spit acid. And an ability to throw 3 facehuggers off his belt and refill them on hkd
 

MadeOfMetal

Kenshi Srubtastic,Cyrax, Special Forces Mains
Most of the changed Alien needs are hitbox adjustments on the character, the hitboxes on somethings Alien has are absolutely just either busted or not working correctly. This had been the case since day one of this character. The other thing being the tick damage on acidic is...a bit much. Other than that Alien is probably fine.
didn't they allready nerf the tick damage once? or am i mistaken. maybe that was acid blood, cuz they nerfed that one for sure. but i agree on the hitbox maybe if you are thinking of the same moves.

but i would have to add JIP2 needs adjustment, cuz it will still give alien advantage even if alien wiffs.
 

GamerBlake90

Blue Blurs for Life!
They wouldn't dare. They had to have been watching enough tournaments to know how reviled Alien is in his current form.

If there's buffs to Konjurer, I could probably deal with it, but Tarkatan and Acidic? Stop.
 

Diego de Souza Costa

***The Soul Consuming Darkness***
Dude, Lord Paulo doesn't operate by normal rules (the rules of us mere mortals), he does whatever the fuck he wants, i'm 100% expecting Alien buffs in the next patch....


pls don't do that Lord Paulo... :DOGE
 

MadeOfMetal

Kenshi Srubtastic,Cyrax, Special Forces Mains
They wouldn't dare. They had to have been watching enough tournaments to know how reviled Alien is in his current form.

If there's buffs to Konjurer, I could probably deal with it, but Tarkatan and Acidic? Stop.
people are really sleeping on Konjurer. hands down he is just as good as acidic in certain matchups. he can near full screen drone into B3 setup for pod then throw either low low/LowOH/OHOH/OHlow to catch in pod. and there is at least 16 different ways to set them up in it before the start of combo to get 40% plus for one bar, then there is pod in middle of combo. Konjurer is very good
 

Tweedy

Noob
Many people just abandoned Lao when he got nerfed. Let's be honest, very few players were not playing Lao just because he used to be so good (Perfect Legend being the exception).

Kobu Jutsu got hit pretty hard, but I believe @Vak Phoenix (full-on Tanya main) thinks she isn't all that bad.
Kung Lao is my favorite character.

Imo he's just not viable versus the top 15, outside of a handful of match ups.

He could have used several fixes, like to his 112124 string, F21 hat whiffing, teleport being horrendous.

Alien has a lot of problems with mids low crushing his tail, his D2 is too short and doesn't have enough active frames, to even work sometimes. He also has a weird hitbox that makes it ridiculously hard to jump over projectiles and out of stuff in general. He can't jump out of Flamefist's WP either as i'm sure most know.

But none of that will be addressed, because omg top tier. That's what happened to Lao. When a character is nerfed to mid tier or worse, and still has no bugs/problems addressed, they become a real mess.