As a Bane Player if you match yourself up with the dregs of the internet, whether its random casuals with random players. All skill levels and random King of the Hill rooms. Bane will be just fine since most people will be going to play the game. Its just learning what to punish and how to do so and using your frame traps and other assorted tools in a thought out manner.
At a high level of play, Bane can do some MONSTEROUS things, however these aforementioned "Monsterous" things will usually not Pan out after 1 to 2 games. Bane is a character that is easily read and can be blown up for any whiff. Now yes all characters can be blown up for whiffing, but if Bane's momentum is ever stopped, even for a moment. At high level play that's all it takes.
Put a fork in'em cuz Bane's Pasta and he'll get ate up once any character get's their spacing options down. And due to multi hitting projectiles, he is the ONLY character that is forced to mythological work his way in the traditional way. Every other character has a viable and in many cases high damage option from full screen.
Bane is a monster in the corner so even high level players can get blown up... Then you take a round... then you get pushed from the corner by backing up. 1 wrong move is game over. You can be annihilating someone in the corner... they wager, out of the corner. Bane gets bodied usually. Still going to play him, cause he's a cool cat to begin with. But if I ever... you know what... this.
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