yeah, I feel Sonic got a little bit nervous and entering in some light-soft kinda almost imperceptible panic mode in the last match .... he droped some stuff in there, and Scar was very smart to capitalize and take advantage .... Sonic went through hell in the losers final bracket and maybe he was very tired .... no excuses, everyone know the quality and talent , undeniable , that Fox has, but, I think he was a bit stressful yesterday .... what is totally understable .... the dude is the GOAT , even losing !!
Love him or hate him he is the best NRS champion to date. His neutral, pressure, reactions, footsie and character tech is out of this world.
I also think Scar, Semiij, Dragon, Foxy, Deoxy are not far behind. I'm excited to see what comes after all of them master every character and have full character knowledge and can consistently link 3 frame AA's, Reversals, Counters and Flawless Block. It will be hype AF when we see them all FB every gap on reaction and everything is down to 5f links to get those conversions.
I'm also excited to get the inevitable balance patch so we can get a more balanced roster that is well equipped to handle top tiers.
Even if certain characters can be used with just 1-3 Normals it's lame, characters should have a full useable move list at thier disposal. Character like Kung Lao are capable of winning by using 4 Normals into stagger/throw but I'd rather see all these awesome moves and the character utilizing every tool in thier movelist.
- Character hitbox issues need fixed.
- KB requirements need adjusted.
- Characters damage needs adjusted.
- Wiffing U+2 FB launchers need fixed.
- make every characters moves and specials practical and viable not just a couple moves. A handful of unsafe strong tools is fine just have conditioning tools to allow it's use.
- characters shouldn't be based around one move. There should be more depth than that. Lao (F1 stagger/throw/Zhat), Liu Kang (F43/F43U3/insert Special move & Throw), Kollector (F12/F12D+1/F12D+2/Throw), Jacqui(F31/F31Cancel/F31CancelThrow), Sub Zero (F4/F2/B32/Specials/Throw), Cassie(B243mix/F412mix/Throw/Special).
And the list goes on. There are certain characters who have to utilizing all of thier moves to be successful like: Scarlet, Jade, Cetrion, Erron, Baraka, Kitana, D'Vorah, Kotal and others. I'm not saying players are not skilled because thier characters main strength and mix are off two Normals. Not at all just saying it would be cool for all characters to have all thier tools be equally effective and not have hitbox issues or normals that are unsafe AF and to risky to use more than a handle of moves reducing them to stagger/throw and a few pokes.
Maybe I'm alone in this but I feel many characters are bland & one trick ponies when they could be very diverse and filled with depth.
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