Kinda how I felt. Cryo's added mixups feel more like scrub kills leaving your only real benefit as better midscreen damage and the standing wake up (which is not as good as prepatch clone set ups). I feel like he needs more ice weapon attacks in neutral, like a better poke or mixup (Also wtf is 111 for???). Unbreakable just feels too risky for too little payoff. It just does too little damage and tries too compensate with risky counters that scale your damage even more harshly. Also not having EX-smash really sucks since it's high damage combos in corner and a better option for armor than slide in cases where you're not in the corner.
I have this dreaded feeling that SZ is just gonna have a few really harsh matchups now and he may have to become an alt that I pocket for characters that can't deal with clones still.
ill Be honest here, as characters figure out more and more ways to move in on their opponents, sub zeros very straight foward, high low options, will soon enouth fall short of being enouth to make Sub Zero any kinda of a threat to any of the more well rounded characters out there.
Honestly if i was to do something to sub zero that would make him more solid, but still very manegable over all variations, would be the following:
GM: clone Smash. i seriously see no reason why the furthest traveling particle of the explosion doesnt have a hit box, only the more bulky ones... seriously, this would give Sub Zero more spacial control, a decent chip option that still keeps him protected over a bigger range of the map and its seriously stupid that the smaller particules dont have hit boxes... it feels lazy from NRS
Another Special Move needs to be added and honestly i dont even go far in providing one that would make wonders for all variations on SubZero. His Very awesome and very famous Ice Puddle. how would this make subzero more well rounded and better without breaking him on all variations you ask? This is How:
Ice Puddle Mechanic, Low hitting special move, blockable,( not his unblockable counterpart from older MKs ) and let it be kinda safe on block providing the same animation on hit as previous MKs ( the one where they are sliding on the ice )
GM Improvements: it would give SZ an option to cancel strings from, that ends in a low, still easy enouth to read and block since subzero has no OverHead ender in GM and the only other option is the slide that is unsafe, it would give SZ a better spacial control over his opponent if he Clones and uses Ice Puddle to safely get a reaction from his opponent without having to put himself in risk and if it hit,. Free combo due to the stagger animation... ( scaling would be enouth for atleast a 25 % combo to 30% something in that range seems fair)
Cryo improvements : it would provide Cryo variation with the special ender mix up it so surely needs. If Cryo is supposed to be the offensive Variation. Where are the high low mind games it requires to trive on such close quarters to his opponent? ( surely they dont mean the mix up of Hammer and Slide is good enouth for a character that needs to be in the opponents face since he doesnt have a chip dmg ranged option, i mean 1 of those needs meter to combo, but its painfully slow, the other one is a KD with very little dmg and punishable on block) So Ice Puddle would sky rocket Cryo Sub Zero to a place where he would actually be viable..
Unbreakable Improvements : it would give this Variation with atleast a safe option and minimal chip on block, because honestly this variation seems like a punshing bag, its offence is so bad that it makes me sad inside... but with Ice puddle atleast he would have a low ender that would provide a combo without it having to spend meter on EX Ice ball almost 70% of the time...
This obviously is just a idea, but i think its a well thought out one and it does provide all variations with something they really need without breaking subzero into the stupid tier... Sorry for the long post guys
