this is like the 30th buff threaqd, but ill say whats needed, Buff: Balanced Kenshi, Jacqui High Tech, Reptile Noxious, Goro all var's, Cyrax, CSZ, Sub Zero Unbreakable, Predator Warrior, Mileena Ethreal and small adjustment buff for Ravenous, Johnny Fisty Cuffs, Bo Rai Cho all variations (maybe make his mids a bit faster or wiff less recovery), Liu Kang Duelist, Tremor Metallic, Cassie Spec ops, D'Vorah Brood Mother, Kung Lao Hat Trick, Kung Jin Ancestral, Raiden Master Of Stroms, Scorpion Inferno (the other two variations give no reason to be inferno).
many characters need a small lift and i know some think some characters are to strong or irritate them and they want them brang down a notch, but i rather like the idea of bring everyone else up a few notches, not making characters op, just giving them better tools or refining the ones they have to make them better equiped to handle the matchups at hand, like some characters can't deal with Alien or KAno CT but if you make some small adjustments on the characters that are a bit behind you can make them go from low-mid to bottom top tier, and they could very well have a small range adjustment with one move that helps in that alien matchup or a double hitting move to eat through CT's armored pressure.
Like i said we can make all of them great in thier own way, so the later part of this game that some will play even after all the evos and tournaments die down, anyone can have fun with there favorite character, even if its a Cyber Sub Zero Main, or a Kenshi balanced lover or even a sonya special forces. everyone should have the option of picking what ever variation and playing that against most of the cast. I myself liked alot of variations that when the game first came out where unfavorable variations: Master Of Storms, Demo (yes at the start she was great but everyone was on the CO bandwagon), Cassie Brawler (back then noone saw her potential) Predator Warrior (explains itsself) Kenshi Balanced, Mileena Piercing (was my first pick at day one and she was placed close to bottom in yomis tier list back then), and we all know what happened to Cyber Sub and Cyrax after 3-29, and i have stuck with them to the end. they are horrible and suck balls now but they are my favs reguardless.
Cyber Sub needs small adjustments that affect him in a huge way,
his ice ball/freeze (BF1) needs -5 startup and +5 frames of recovery (I have been saying this since the 3-29 patch, taking off 5 frames on startup would revert what they did to him on 3-29-2016 patch and give him back his B1 into BF1, and his 1/11/F13/B3 into normal freeze. as of nopw we all know on hit you can block the freeze after the first string or single hit except with his 111 string the dreaded short hitting high to langer reach mid mid. and then we could put 5 frames added to his recovery on his normal freeze so he can still not machine gun that freeze which does out trade. honestly thats all i think he needs to be decent again.
Cyrax: needs many but i can shorten it into a few simple ones. his Net needs to hold just a bit longer id say about 15 frames longer considering its risk for the small reward he gets for a landed one. His EX Shrapnel port (Teleport) needs to launch again but still keep its armor, as of now you would be dumb to use it as it only gives 11% on hit and launches them away and on the ground ending your turn for a bar. and with all the bs normal tweaks they added to his normals and bomb limitations only 3-4 high and 3-4 low in one combo and with the enormous scaling he has as well as he can't use a net after a bomb connects which is any combo he uses kind of stung alot, we need ata least metered Net after bomb connect or net having pushback to be safe close up on block or DB1 to be -6 or-7 on block. he also has some wiffing issues with B1-2+4/F13/F4 and a huge problem with recovery bug on his teleport being used in combo some times he is locked there unable to move for longer than 50 frames extra.
