He is. People need to stop being butt hurt about a well rounded and balanced character. They keep saying it would be "preemptive" in a way, to keep another top 5 fiasco from happening but there are a few things to take into account. One, the amount of characters that actually check kotal Kahn. In every variation, there are several characters that will put the hurt on this man, a couple even do that to ALL variations (See Lackey F/T and Sub Zero) and when I say put the hurt, I mean these matchups feel TERRIBLE. Lackey is D1ing, BF3ing out of your pressure and you can't even combo the fool, it's bad. Sub Zero...i refer you to how ice klone works and how kotal is played. Secondly, "preemptive nerfs" are bullshit. You cannot, I repeat, CANNOT, stop a fighting game or any kind of competitive game foe that matter, from having the best of the best. It will not happen ever. There will always be the strongest and the weakest. The job of a fighting game developer is not to eradicate top 5 and make every single character as good as each other, cannot and will not happen in a million years. Their job is to close the gap between Top 5 and Bottom 5. Always has and always will determine how well a fighting game is balance. You want the majority of characters in A, with a few in S and a few in B, with the gap between those characters being as minimal as you can make it within your game. Are the gaps big sometimes? Absolutely, look at Injustice, game had the godliest of god tiers. But have game achieved the closest thing to 100% balanced? Absolutely. Soul Calibur 2. I will preach this to the very day I die, that game was a near perfectly balance fighter. The top tier exist? Absolutely, but every single other character could compete at the highest level...except spawn, rip him. But the point is, stop trying be clever and "nerf before they get out of hand" it wont solve anything because the top 5 will exist, we just don't want them to be as oppressive as our current top 5...rant over.
