Completely disagree with the "all wakeups should be punishable". The launching ones are already vulnerable, and the invincible ones are single hitting and all chars have them. Let's not start nerfing defense options this early, thx.
Tbh NRS hasn't done safe invincible wake ups correctly ever really.
Either you wake up on block and you're safe or you don't wake up and the oppressor backs off anticipating the bait and it resets to neutral, fine.
The problem with baiting wake ups in nrs games... w i f f r e c o v e r y.. non existent lol.
I found it annoying finagling around these invincible wake ups fishing for a bait especially when they fly half screen or the animations were lightning fast meanwhile having virtually no wiff recovery... which is why I tended to prefer unsafe armored wake ups in nrs games which in itself is ew in the first place lol.
why does every NRS game have shit AAs and people continue to complain about it. every character should have a reliable AA. if i had a theory its fan service for lower level players. scrubs jump a lot and if they get AA every single jump they would prob just quit.
I don't necessarily think every character should have a reliable aa and I think it's ok to have poor aas, depending on certain conditions. Like if you have a super strong ground game + great ground mobility + great jump ins I think it's ok to have a bad aa game. Like catwoman in inj2 would've been fine without one, she just wouldve had to use her walk speed to bait jump ins and trip guard. Shinnock, I mean ffs you already could barely jump in on him anyway- did he REALLY need that d2?
It's this popular concept in balancing where everyone needs to have "strong" fundamentals while focusing on frame data and move properties that either creates holes in a characters offense or overpowers them, meanwhile if you just gave other characters more of an opportunity to initiate their offense it would've been the better option.
