Did anyone honestly expect intelligent balancing from NRS?This is garbage. WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU NERF ALL 3 VARIATIONS WHEN IT'S ONLY 1 THAT PEOPLE ARE BITCHING ABOUT. A NERF TO TG? OK FINE BUT DONT NERF MOS AND DISPLACER AND GIVE THEM NOTHING ON RETURN
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People can mash down pokes and get out if raiden goes for f1.It's still 6f start-up
F12 is still -3 on block
It will still hit crouch block
I don't see how this changes much.
Agreed. I immediately felt bad for any MoS or Displacer raidens.People complained about thunder gods f12, so instead of nerfing the recovery of 2, they nerf the property of f1 which takes away MOS and Displacer's f1 poke/f14 which was nothing compared to f12 but we needed it so bad in those variations. Why couldnt they nerf TG alone without fucking up the other 2
im starting to get scared.If OS wasn't nerfed by now, I don't think they can.
That or f2,2+3 is also good. I use that to set up traps in MoS. or a ranged d4 poke.So now that this nerf happened what are our options? Because honestly this just makes it so we can be poked to death for even trying f1,2 string. I heard someone mention b1,1 is that the next best thing!?
B11 LRC is nowhere near plus on block. F2 is 15 frames lol. Raiden best option now is to do b1,1,2, shocker. But im glad everyone knows all about raiden but raiden players.b1 is mid b11 LRC on block is slightly plus or zero and goes into 214 ex shocker on hit or other combos.
f2 is +2 on block
he just can't run in and beat everything, he can run in and beat any non crouch normal. if they neutral crouch a lot he can run in overhead.
whiff punishing crouch normals is now impossible for him running in and doing f1, but that's true for most chars lol. TG raiden also has pretty good moves that aren't used as much in the lightning strings like 3 2+4, good range to still stop them from whiffing normals
But im glad everyone knows all about raiden but raiden players.
now raidens best mid is -9. His down pokes are also -9. Raiden is free to d1 folks, have fun
just went into tmode, did b11 LRC f1 on block recording, tried to mash f1 as raiden out, get hit every time.B11 LRC is nowhere near plus on block.