Is this the new Akromanikast?
Didn't watch the whole video because honestly at this point in the game I'm beginning to get tired about tier discussions that lead to nowhere. But I hope at no point in the video you tried to argue about Mileena not needing nerfs, because everybody knows that is not true. We all lab her, we all play vs her and we all know how overbuffed she was in march, putting her in a state where she has pretty much 0 weaknesses. But anyway, she's probably gonna stay like she is now.
About the commentary in more or less 17:47 about the variation system, about the "even changing variation is still the same character", this has been debated many times.
My opinion is that in practice, this is false. First of all, in tournaments you can't change variation when you win, so in practice they are considered like different characters, no matter if they share the name or some tools, and I think that's ok because their tools can be so different in most cases that they behave like different characters.
You can say they are the same character if you want, and it's true at some extent, but when "fight " appears in the screem, in most cases two different variations behave so differently that the only things that they share are the skin and the name. So for me, because they have different style, some different moves, even some different properties on common moves and different game plans, they can be considered "different characters".
