nightcrawlers
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I messed around with Baraka the other day. Gutted is still a ton of fun. 50%+ easy to hit KB combo? yes please
Bone picker is fine but Marauder is still just so much better. The lunge mind games are fun but 1 marauder combo does about as much as 2 or 3 lunge mixups. And if you guess wrong the enemy can full combo you for trying to lunge.
Spines gives a lot of conversions and corner combos that he would not have with chop chop. Being able to convert off of spines is invaluable because it gives more ways to end in lunge to set up oki and mixups. If he had chop chop in this variation he would legit have no corner combos. And unless leg kabab launches then you are pretty much killing Bone Picker's corner game by taking out spines.
Or Spine Burst could be df3. That way you could have Spines and Chop Chop at the same time. Not sure if that would end up being OP though.
I'd take significantly higher damage midscreen combos over slightly higher corner combos any day, considering the variation has poor corner carry anyways since blood lunge plants the opponent right into the ground. Plus, he doesn't need a safe special to cancel into because all of his string enders are just as safe (or safer), and I don't feel he needs a better AA move either.
Well sure but that sounds broken af, so i'm not surprised it isn't in a tourney variation. He doesn't need a vortex.
Fair enough.
From what I have seen, it is possible to hit the very first hit of Chop Chop on an aerial opponent on the really high end of its hitbox, and that strike pops them up slightly just out of reach of the second hit. So what will happen is they'll float past the second hit and fall into the third and remaining hits of Chop Chop. The AI is fast enough to react to that and hit Breakaway in the tiny spot where they are dropping around that second hit. I don't think a human could time it on purpose reliably, but mashing Breakaway in a case where you think Baraka might end a combo with Chop Chop and hit that timing could happen. Thing is, if a human is going to Breakaway they're probably going to do it before the Chop Chop (whatever thing launched them before then in the first place), so I'm not sure it is ever going to matter outside of AI shenanigans.
They do it to me from 112/B32 chop chop grounded. I haven't payed enough attention to notice if I was whiffing part of the string or started with a jip, but they were definitely grounded.
Really... that is interesting, I've never seen it grounded myself. I'll see if I can do a bit of testing tonight and find out if manual inputs are capable of it.
What's that augment called? I have one that increases the damage of my Fatal Blow by 0.30% based on how much health I have left, but not one that buffs damage on all of my hits.
112, b2, and 4 are plus. 112 has pushback though. If they don't have a 6f d1 then you should be able to beat them with your poke. If they mash pokes though I would use sweep, D4, or DF1 to stay out of their poke range and hip them out that way.
An example is that Jax's F4 puts him at around +4 on block or something crazy like that. So if you block it and you try to d1 right after it he can get a full combo off of you trying to D1. What I was thinking is does Baraka have anything like that?
Amp up I think. I also have the fatal blow one.
B2 definitely isn't plus, it's only active 3 frames so -3 at best (and given how far it moves for only being 3a you'll almost always just be -5).
There are two that I've found. One is called "Punctured Armor", and that one increases your damage by 3.00% for each hit in a combo. The second one is called "Ultraviolence", and that one increases your damage by 9.00% for each hit in a combo. Make sure to have Chop Chop equipped and watch enemy AI health bars melt.
I take it you didn’t play much of the beta.
I did, but every Baraka I fought was playing Gutted.
That sounds different. Mine gives a damage bonus for the whole round instead of just the combo, with the tradeoff of a damage penalty at round start.
That’s surprising but I believe you.