I will admit that I'm probably the worst fighting game player in this forum, but I disagree. I think flawless blocking in MK11 is more luck-based than skill. I hate it.
"Also, flawless blocking is by nature an incredibly strong defensive mechanic."
It's only a '50/50' if you're hard-committing to something potentially unsafe every single time. At that point, you're being punished for predictable offense. Which is the nature of strong defense.
In order to blow up the flawless block fish Crimson you have to do a microduck punish which means they can microduck you back. You are being put in a 50/50 because you tried to take your turn back. How is this hard to understand? There's no point in something being negative if there is a way for me to be directly blown up for rightfully taking my turn back.
I've noticed that this young generation of players seems to have an extremely linear way of looking at fighting games. "If my opponent does X then I should always be able to do Y, and Y should always work, every time, without me having to think about it".
How so? EVO came running to MK11 and KI once Covid turned it into an online event, because they have outstanding netcode in comparison to other FGs.
I need to see this.
I am sure he meant KL and general matchmaking.
To be fair, this has been a thing in fighters forever. Invincible dp's work the same way but at least in that situation theres more of a cut and dry risk reward involved.
Well even so the running joke was that Brazil would dominate EVO Online.
Thats not online connection thats just you being too slow.When I block someone's D1 and I hit my D1 yet am hit by their 2nd D1 (mash it out!) that's a bad sign...
Mk11 and sfv really went hard with this. Gotta reduce that skill gap.
Online does add a few frames of input lag so it does make things a bit harder to react to.
I feel like I see this more for MK11 than I have for any other game. It's the same mentality where people are screaming about "hitbox issues" when one or two strings whiff on a couple of characters under specific circumstances, or a combo that doesn't work on small bodies. In any other community that would just get filed away under "match up knowledge" but here you see twitter brigades trying to get it fixed like a bug.
Sure, buddy, sure.
It's 3 frames on you (the counter attacker), and there might be some more clipped off of the first person's startup frames due to rollback. It's unlikely you lose so many that you can't counter poke because you just didn't see enough of it happen to block and poke back since the over all active + blockstun frames is plenty large enough be seen in all but really unplayable connections. I think autopausing would kick in after 7 frames and delay things anyway you really aren't seriously playing in a connection that bad. I've also managed to counter poke Hellbringer more than once and we have a 200ms ping which is far from ideal.
Hitbox/hurtbox stuff goes way beyond that sorta thing. It's a foundational prob of the game and NRS's way of doing things really.
You want to talk about a fatal blow hitting someone behind their back? Yup, I'm in total agreement.
Nah man, I'm talking more foundational than that sort of thing. I'm talkin the root!
And somebody complaining Liu whiffing somewhere needs to just hold on, since Liu has enough great stuff going for him anyways lol
All I said was its harder to react online due to the added frame lag. I didnt know you two had a history but a fact is a fact lol. I didnt bash anyone.
