funny how almost everyone overlooked him until the dark beam buff. Shinnok is to what bojutsu kung jin was before his nerf. simple, easy to use and has a tool for almost everything.
as for nerfs, mb hell sparks has to stay, for the sake of impostor and necromancer. hell, i'll go as far as to revert the changes and make it back to +24. the hell spark nerf hurts impostor and necromancer a lot more than it does to bone shaper.
i hate nerfs, but dark beam is a bit too good now. it does high damage, fast, safe on block and plus on hit. keep the speed, lower the damage to 6 or 7%, make it -7 on block and +2 on hit at most.