1. His orbs have a much better hitbox, it was buffed
2. His corner game is better than dragons fire and flame fist
3. Him and dragons fire have pretty much the same armor options the only exception is that you can burn more meter to be safe.
4. there is no gap in f123
@Eldriken play a dualist or ask me for dualist specific stuff
1 - I tested his orbs hitbox and I did not feel any difference. Can you prove it?
2 - No way his corner game is better than Dragon's Fire and Flame Fist:
Damage and combos: about the meterless damage on block, Flame Fist has the best; the meterless damage of the BnBs are in the same level most of the times - Dragon's Fire does around 35%, Flame Fist does around 34% and Dualist does around 36%; 1 bar BnB combos Dragon's Fire and Dualist are in the same level most of the times and Flame Fist has the best damage - Dragon's Fire and Dualist does around 40%, Flame Fist does around 49%;
In the difficulty to do the BnBs Dragon's Fire has the best links most of the times - Dragon's Fire has around 8 frames to link most of the times, Flame Fist has around 6 frames to link and Dualist has around 5 frames to link most of the times; Dragon's Fire and Flame Fist does not need to spend bars to do many of their combos because they can use F4 to do their 30%+ meterless combos.
Frame traps and mixups: Dragon's Fire has better frame traps - F213 FBRC is +13 / F213 DD1 FBF4 is a true blockstring / F213 SS is +5 / F213 EX FBRC is +17 / F213 EX DD1 is +8 / EX fireball is +15;
Dragon's Fire has the best mixups - F213 FBRC or any hella plus stuff into F4 or B2 or Throw or more fireball run cancel pressure to be hella plus again or a stagger; DF Flying kick is more safe, he can MB it to be 0 on block and +26 on hit; DF can MB the bicycle kick.
Projectiles and reversals: Flame Fist has the strongest fireballs, the faster low fireball and regular fireball. Dragon's Fire has the fastest air fireball and it has an EX version. Flame Fist has a parry and one of the best special moves in the game which is the EX windmill punches (put the video in 5:17
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Dualist has the best EX fireball which is +15 on block and it combos in the corner but it has pushback, it is the slowest EX fireball of Liu Kang so if your do some strings into EX fireball, there might have a gap. Dualist has orbs but they have a lot of issues - regular orb, low orb and air orb has small region of hit, all orbs explodes in some cenarios, all orbs starts a little bit far from Liu Kang and the air orb is as useless as the healing.
