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Bruh.
Well, he may not be unplayable, but fighting an uphill battle against most of the kast is not fun either, I can tell you that much.
Well, he may not be unplayable, but fighting an uphill battle against most of the kast is not fun either, I can tell you that much.
You laughed your ass off at that? You must be easily amused. Like the other poster said, id like kotal to be on reasonably equal grounds. Other characters are alot faster, safer and do more consistent damage. Often they do all 3 better than kotal
There’s simply no reward in playing him, when I win it’s usually because the other player is really bad or doesn’t know ANYTHING about the mu. Playing a character that doesn’t feel rewarding at all is no fun dude.
And what's the point of the weekly visits to bitch about him? Either play him or don't. If you play him, it's been 2 months, get over it. If you don't, why are you still here again?
Read my posts, I didn’t bitch. There is no reason to pick him up, that IS the situation right now. I explained a couple of reasons why and I believe them to be valid. I feel the character could be better with a few tweaks. I play him, but it’s not nearly as fun as it could be. I wish it was more fun. That is why I’m here, I want the character that I like to play to be actually fun to play. You do not seem to grasp the difference between bitching/crying for buffs and reasonable arguments as to why a character is in a bad place in the meta right now. No character should be in such a bad spot, period. If you don’t agree and are willing to accept that some characters belong in the bottom tier forever, good for you, I’d like a well balanced game where all characters are on roughly the same level.
I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about the brigade of salty would-be mains e.g matador.
if a character makes me sad to play because I like them very much and they are very bad it makes them unplayable to me
Ok dude, sorry if I misinterpreted. People are always exaggerating, either stuff is atrocious or straight-up broken. There usually is no middle ground.
My working theory is almost every string and kombo ender for Kotal ends with the opponent relatively far away, so you knock them down and have time to pop a totem. Damage Totem + Blood Totem + Ground Cat is what I'm running currently, gives you less kombo potential but good tools. Ground Cat has corner carry which is nice. It feels like I have a real gameplan: knock em down, knock em to the corner, keep your totems up. Playing in the corner gives more kombo options.
At a certain point you have to recognize this is a pedantic argument. When people are saying "unplayable" they are not literally saying you can't play him, or even can't win with him, they're saying they don't enjoy pushing that particular boulder uphill because of stupid gaps in his design. When you're reading someone's posts you need to not just laser-focus on one word and try to pretend it's representative of the entirety of their argument.
B22 is actually a launcher that can get you some stuff (there's another string that you can only kombo off of in the corner, as well), but generally yes he's way more limited without Kahn Cut in Ascension variation.
Yeah but then you are taking maybe the best thing about Totemic(the normal Sun ray) and giving it to Ascension. Ascension having God Ray is basically a nerf.
I asked a very straight forward question about how people are analyzing character strengths. I did not quote anyone before, I did not mention a name period. Everyone here is saying he is incomplete, which to me means unplayable. But then we do not talk about match ups at all or the state of the game. Most people here just zero in on the top tier and make a comparison. They are outliers and should not be the model. But when I compare him to characters below the notable top tier I do not see a large gap in his skill set. Go ahead scour the forums and play the cast. . . you hear a recurring theme here. I do not even deny he is not top tier. I am just asking if anyone that uses more than one character has played against a good Kotal so that we can get match up knowledge and information. Ask around, I just care about in game experience and broadening our knowledge base. The question still stands. . . but no one has really answered. I know I have played @Qwark28 and while we were playing we both noted how awkward it was dealing with his far lunging buttons. I've even asked for Kotal players to join a conversation so that we can test match ups live and either get better or decide that a match up is truly a problem. I test match ups out as often as I can, but I can't use every character as much as I try. That is why I ask for your help on TYM to break down match ups. My problem is there are too many players that do not interact with each other here to get better. If you just play kustom variations or Kombat League and then come here to talk about how bad Kotal is, it isn't helpful. Put up some vids or lets get some sets among ourselves to get a better understanding.Kotal right now = crap
He is in the same D'vorah situation: waiting for a decent balance patch, in order to receive some well deserved buffers from NRS, hehe
I agree, God Ray sucks, Idk why it doesn't work the way it did in MKX. But I also think a lot of his specials suck, but Dmg totem recovers fairly quickly and the buff allows you to put some fear in your opponent.
yes, but it also has slow startup, is a high and is punishable on block. You cannot throw it out safely unless you know for sure you have the whiff punish. So it’s pretty useless in most situations honestly.
