Juxtapose
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I like Kitana. I like Kitana buffs. Please proceed.
I like Kitana. I like Kitana buffs. Please proceed.
If history is any indication then they are coming lmao.
Nitara is definitely not trash.
I agree with you that you do see more diversity in kameos to some degree and that's a good thing for the game. I also agree with the statement you made on the podcast about how balancing is a difficult and delicate act. But you have to admit, the last patch did shit on Baraka and Cyrax to the point where they just aren't fun to use anymore and probably not viable from a competitive standpoint. There was definitely a middle ground that could have been reached, but they knee jerked the fuck out of that one and I believe it directly ties into what @Rodney Quillz was saying in regards to the mentality of the modern day fighting game player/consumer. We shall see what the future holds.
Great post. I feel the same way. Top tier characters are like weeds, you chop one down and another one will grow in its place. You see it happening in real time as well which is amusing. It seems like a lot of modern day fighting game players are in a perpetual state of carrying pitchforks and torches. I myself, bitch and get salty when I get crushed by something I perceive as "OP" I think that's part of the competitive spirit, but once I take the time to lab and problem solve, characters always become more beatable. I want to see more grit!!
Bro I’m dead serious. They have complained so much about Johnny since the last patch to the point where they are 100% confident in him getting chopped and now have moved on to other characters.
Especially now that her Blood Sacrifice doesn't hurt her more than it can reliably help/heal. Unless you EX it, you have to actually land her Bite special to heal within the time limit of the buff being active which can sometimes be rough to do. With the original health cost to activate it was possible to not be able to gain back the significant health cost and be hurt worse by your own healing move which is just laughably bad. 5% is much more reasonable to be able to repay the cost of the buff and still actually HEAL from your healing move. Now the argument of "she has 900 hp because she can heal" is valid as opposed to before when it was ALWAYS a case of "can she though?".
I specifically said a 'Top 3 character'. He's obviously a top tier character, but when people say he's the Number 1 character yet we keep seeing him lose to Raiden and other top/high-tier characters, that's a sign that he is likely being upplayed due to not enough time to fully flesh the match out.
Remember all those killer Barakas we were supposed to see in Tournament? It was just Cyrax.
I feel like star power is way easier to use offline, the links are pretty tight if you are not doing it raw, most of his links go into NP and if you are late and it whiffs you are taking BIG damage.
A lot of them were fighting for their life during ECT in the comments across social media downplaying and demanding nerfs for other characters lol.
Baraka not viable?
Not sure overhaul is the word, but yeah it's odd. The mechanic strikes me as something that isn't supposed to be used every match, but it's something more Cage players should have to be optimizing for.
I said probably not and we shall see what the future holds. I highly doubt Tweedy would use him in tournament post patch. I hope I am wrong. I still main him. Two things can be true at once. There is a subsect of the community that are overreacting. Also, the patch overly nerfed some things.
I see a lot of this in proposed buffs and nerfs. You can make a character good without making them interesting, and i'd like to see more buffs focusing on getting tools that aren't used to have a purpose and have that fill gaps in their gameplan.
