lol as long as he's balanced he can be in the game, just not dumb dash cancels lol Cyrax ehh he was worse in MK9 granted lol but man they just totally almost killed Triborg in general compared to when released
yeah i only wanna play a good character, not a broken one. i wanted cyrax's reset gone, just how they did it was dumb.
not only did they castrate his normals, but they took away all hit advantage on hit for follow up pressure like many characters have including jax. but then removed combo diversity, he has far less starters because of it, and way less enders and the inbetween because of the no net after bomb rule, then they went even farther, they limited how many bombs could be used, from 7+ to 3 hovers or 3 lows, i mean u can delay do a 4th after one explodes, but with all his damage reduction, on B2, F13, F21, B1, F43, 111, and Net and Bombs, he can only really get 32% meterless in most situations and not much better with bar.
they didnt stop there, then they took his somewhat ok Teleport and made it complete garbage, 11% for 1 bar, and it splats them away and on the gropund, and when it connects it sometimes glitches and adds twice the recovery frames on it. then lets talk about what they did to his net, not only can it not come out after bomb, but it has like 1/3rd the time that it used to have.
literally this isn't even all that happened in that patch, he still got problems with F13, B1, B2, and Teleport wiffing. then there is the F131 AA wiff problem.
that patch was horrible.
i get balancing but i fear them balancing a character at all at this point, as you can see why.
they hit Sektor with the normal nerfs, and rocket hit advantage nerf, smoke got the normals nerfed and a 2% damage reduction, CSZ had many starters ruined, many setups ruined, many combos ruined, and damage hit hard, his drones got the shaft, his freeze got the shaft, and his Juggle setups midscreen got castrated, then his divekicks got remade in a bad way.
I know what happened to Sektor didn't need to be done, and it was unjust, that being said, he is the best out of all triborg's as of now, and Cyrax is bottom 5, im sure he is accompanied by CSZ for sure, smoke to be determined lol. id say Sektor is mid tier but i had no problems with his rockets before patch, so i don't get why people hated on that anyways.
if kabal could be made where he wasn't broken then yes bring him in, BTW he should have his Nomad RC's in this game, since his OP ness was MK9 had no stamina which in this game serves as a Limit to how many Consecutive RC's you can do in a givin turn. will stop him from over abusing it, besides, in MK9 you could poke him out on a guess, ansd when he did the OH on MK9 it was your turn.
kabal was a pressure monster, and thats how he should be, but make no mistake he will not be any more op than Johnny or liu kang is or Jax. even though if he comes others wil;l scream that he is broken since he is the new char on the copping block.
the general mentality has been:
omg a new character, omg i have to lab up that matchup, this character is stupid, he is broke, omg i can't imediatly beat him with my best character, his tools are broken as F, Nerf that, he needs a normalization...
thats how it has gone every time a DLC came out.
or a new popular character.
lab a small while, complain, use a different character against them, complain, nerf, rinse and repeat.
what the community fails to understand is, characters that are new will seem op for a small while untill everyone becomes familiar and tech is found for dealing with them.
and any character you do not use seem broke when you struggle with them.
i have seen some very good players say, a matchup was bad or spout numbers like 3/7 or 2/8 when they play them the same way over and over.
they fail to understand that, to others there character seems op because they don't understand them like a main of that character does, and the players who main them think they are garbage because they see all the openings they have with them.
instead of changing gameplay style or allowing time for them to develop true matchup numbers some players will say bad matchup immediately after a couple of sets.
