From Grundy's POV, if you're doing Venom into the armor of the Walking Corpse, I'm going to cancel it every time. The risk-reward for that is heavily in Grundy's favor. If I cancel it and you MB Venom then you used a bar to deal 10% and get a knockdown or I block in time and you get 2% chip and frame advantage. If I cancel it and you didn't MB, then for 1 bar I can get 50% and Trait, maybe more depending on how beefy the Grave Rot damage buff was.
I don't think so. GOTY (or complete edition, whatever it is called) patch should be the last, and it is coming in November, IIRC.
There was no patch for the kollector's edition for MK9.
Aquaman is probably the best alt if you're going to have one.
This is true to an extent. I can do venom into 33 every time and you have no way to stop it other than canceling your WC, and I still get all the damage from my 33 in. If you try to punish 33, I can just do 3 Mb venom into 33 again for as long as I have meter. This match up is definitely 5-5 though, Tyrant and I always instantly find counters to each other's stuff. Lots of 33 in this match up is really good. If you can learn to time ES to beat WC it will help you out a lot as well. It's probably the most fair match up in the game.
Only if Batman doesn't have meter or trait available. Batarang is already a 2-hit projectile, so MB'ing it or using it in conjunction with a bat will still knock us back.
I actually don't think it will affect Sinestro that much. As the MU is now, I rarely hit him out of MB venom because it travels across the screen so quickly. Usually when I catch the DD player, it is as they are about to input the shoulder. I'll have to see it in action but I suspect that this buff will mostly affect the Batman and DS MUs.
With Sinestro's trait it was pretty easy to get 2 hits at once. But yeah, it will be a lot easier to get in on those 2.
I actually agree that this is stupid as hell and I wish that would've been addressed. Other than that he really is fine as he is.
I didn't know that it could outright be broken before its duration was up outside of it being parried or broken by a super or Superman's trait. It having a hit limit really catches me by surprise, especially since it only lasts six damn seconds. :|
DD has a good B3, This is going to make me want to use it even more with armor. I wonder if the meter burn counts on b3 cancels during combos? Two bars for more damage. Or even use it during splash, MB ES combo's. another 2 bars, but if we're getting around 38% now, with the 50% it may push it into the high 40's.