The point is why? the character is already messed up. No good mids, no good real mixups, just a bunch of yolo 50/50's and now a completely nerfed CMD.
Character bias by the developers. Scrub friendly characters like Scorpion Geras can guarantee the younger players and casuals in general easy wins. There's no incentive for them to play if they keep getting their asses beat. If they have a fighting chance, they'll stick around, and probably by time crystals too. On top of this, the developers have admitted to loving the ninja characters. That's why they never get touched when the patches roll in, but there's changes for everyone else.
It was a bug fix that applied to more than Kano. There were some high attacks that wouldn't trigger D2 KB correctly, and the high command grabs were among them.
It's the same thing with all the low tier characters. They're getting worse as the weeks go by. Without a mid starter you just have to space a lot and a Bauer the hell out of B3 to get in.
*abuse
Ive switched to snakebite variation (i play kasual) but and i d1 snakebite. But damn kano sucks
I feel like purpose-wise his moveset would be very complete if not for his frame data being garbage.
Johnny Cage suffers from the same issue. The longer the game is out, the harder it's getting to win. The only option is to play twice as much as everyone else, because you can't make mistakes.
I use b1 mostly as an spacing tool. Even taking on account its long recovery, I find it very useful against aggressive players. On hit or even on block, I alternate blade toss cancels and back dash cancels into a B3 or B2, that catches a lot of those heavy rush down players trying to conterattack inmediately (usually they cannot close the gap fast enough and I go for the whiff punish).
Yeah, I don't know Johnny as much, but I feel that both Kano and Johnny are honest and balanced chars (having balanced strengths and weaknesses) that naturally need work in order to win. In my humble opinion, the game is balanced and I believe that these chars don't need great buffs, only minor adjustments (at least in the case of Kano). As many others have said, I'd be happy with S2 being a mid, as in its current state, the string 24(1+3) has two flaws: starting with a high and having a noticeable gap between 4 and (1+3). Being one of his main tools, I feel that having two flaws in the same string is a bit too much.
In my case, I use ripper tourney variation (mostly). Snake Bite is good, but i prefer manhadled over it, mainly because of the (pseudo)mixups and the opportunity to include Rack Off and Lumbar Check in the loadout.
Yeah, most of his good tools are highs, like his F1 I think is an advancing move but it's a high (and I think it may stagger?) I use a grab after it hits. I think I'm going to experiment more with his variations since the only real set I played was with his Ripper variation. Tho I tried out his laser beam instead of the knife throw and it's kinda sweet that it KBs and it looks awesome.
Kano really feels like someone that would benefit greatly from custom variations being tournament-legal.
They mentioned this during the kano reveal stream. Kano is “all about his kustom variations”...
I actually completely forgot about that.
