Yoaks
A spaceman
Imagine if Sword Flip was safe!?!?!?!
Imagine if Sword Flip was safe!?!?!?!
I think it was for a short time or was on the release patch when the game came out.
Really?! I did not know that.
Aquaman isnt Batman or Doomsday though. And dont forget, the Trident Rush WAS nerfed long ago. If it wasnt intended, they probably would have nerfed it further.
Fine, Aquaman isn't Batman or Doomsday. What makes trident rush and/or Aquaman so special that they need a special move that can be meterburned 12 freaking times with a fully stacked bar for 180% chip? Why, among all the cast, does he get to do that? How does it make sense from a design or balance standpoint? Sorry, but I refuse to believe its anything but an oversight on NRS' part and a mistake in how their system calculates meter build. I find the idea that this was part of someones design too horrifying to entertain.
I would never lose if dd built meter like that
Because Aquaman players need it, the character doesn't
Nope that's what most Aquaman consider under ratedWooooow. He can do 12 MB Trident Rushes in a row if all of them get blocked when he has full meter?
DA FUQ
I guess that's what we consider "balanced," right?
Jesus Christ ...
Fair enough, I guess. Are people taking advantage of the minus frames after it's blocked? A lot of moves in the @Eric Z19 meter building comparison are plus and can be looped.
This made me laugh. Like hard.
Not only that, in meta you're often playing into the Aquaman players trap, because by pushblocking and losing meter you are also hurting your chances at being able to get any life back in the second round.
It's not my fault that US was making games with Neo Cortex back in 90s
The problem is that it pushes you back so far that some characters don't really have a lot of options. After a MB trident rush if he does it right he's outside of my D1 range, and If I F2 or J3 I am eating a D2. I can try and reversal singer, but even if I meterburn it and he doesn't block it I get a whopping 15%. Whoopie do.
TRAIIIIIT!
The risk/reward isn't as bad as it seems. But only because aquaman doesn't have invinc wake ups.
I would argue that because of his trait, Aquaman is one of the characters it's easiest to get away with having a shitty defense with...
While this is obviously true and the point has been rehashed again and again, I would argue that while having a defensive character means thinking and playing differently it doesn't mean that it isn't overpowered. Sure Aquaman isn't going to steamroll anybody with amazing set-ups or a vortex but what he does do is immediately stop every other characters momentum, and if that happens they're playing his game. One that he wins.
