You've seen zero because he simply doesn't compete man. Reo tried mad hard to main him and had to drop him because he knew it wasn't worth entering a tournament with him. Two weeks is plenty of time to figure out how a character functions. You aren't seeing him in tournaments because the people entering actually want a chance to win, not because they are all trying to figure him out still; that's the problem... they have.
Which is why I never mentioned what tools he has that need to be tweaked, I stated he has tools to get the job done, it's more the fact that Lobo can't really get much of it going against a smart opponent that knows the matchup due to the issues I stated in the buff suggestions.
Not quite, I was actually going to use Lobo at Colosseum Games, but Lobo was Banned.
I guess, but I didn't see a single one at ECT5 (where he was legal) and I watched for most of the day. I agree that he has potential, but as you said earlier, he has problems that are holding him back from the higher tiers, especially when people know the matchup. I think the best bet at fixing that is two simple buffs: Apply the armor on MB charge right away, not when the chain hits (improves wakeup game and helps with zoners) and improve the recovery after low pump nuke (helps that trait just got fixed and would increase the damage a bit if you can chain into more than b1 to get into command throw, which is god damn impossible lol). Whaddya think?
Explain how any of my suggestions would make him braindead.Dear NRS, please make all the characters brain dead. We sincerely give no fucks in adapting and we demand buffs just for the lulz
My point about the shells is that there are times in a match where you have loads of dead space, you could easily stack some nuclear shells during that time, even taking a few projectile trades to do so, it means you won't have to sacrifice anything later, whilst still being able to enforce nuclear low mixups from one setup to another.
It's not worthless at all, it's just counter productive that you have to sacrifice ground you covered/damage/setups by reloading. When you could stack the shells during any dead space.
I don't feel like his shotgun needs extra range, as it's not really a projectile in my eyes. He has other moves that cover more ground as it is. The actual hitbox on the shotgun is really good, especially when you have the opponent in the corner.
Not to mention people like Black Adam and the "underrated" Aquaman can full combo punish you off a projectile depending on their range. My shotgun suggestions are a little more for flavor I guess, I'd be fine with the MB charge fix. Just think its awkward that it wiffs so close... Lobo is a better shot than that lol.
Sorry, I just see him having only one use for spending trait as poor, boring and lazy design on NRS' part. My apologies that I wasn't more clear, you're 100% right in saying that just being able to stack shots would be enough. Still, I strongly feel that in addition to that, doing something for his other shots when trait is on could go a long way without being unreasonable if NRS is smart. All I can think of at the moment is more range on trait'd high shot (Not fullscreen like some asshats are asking) to justify ever using it outside of jailing after 21 on block, but there's plenty of room for discussion and creativity.
I don't see the MB high shot having slightly more range as unreasonable, The second shot already has slightly more range, it's just unlikely to land if the first shot misses anyway. Just feels like an odd design choice to me.
Because no offense to REO, but many people just listen to top players without thinking or looking into things on their own.
I feel like you can't read.
I agree. Traited high shot going farther is a fair compromise. I wouldn't say full screen ever either for it, but maybe a single dash closer or so? You/Ketchup are definitely right though, right now the only good use of trait is the low shot to pop people up, and you really don't get much out of that because getting from there to the command grab for a decent combo is damn near impossible.
So far, all you can Get B1 into grab fron a low shot is either on its own, or from a standing 1. I haven't found any other ways to get it, the opponent is pushed too far back, it has to literally be right in their face or grab = Nobo.
Yeah, popping them up with that low shot traited really needs to mean something... clearly it was meant to, otherwise it wouldn't do the same damage as untraited, just seems like NRS didn't realize that they made it impossible to get anything respectable off of with any kind of consistency. I mean, if Reo says he can't pull if off after what we've seen him do on Kabal in MK9 (in terms of tehc/precision), that's proof enough that it's way too rough.
Difficulty isn't the isssue
