The New Spinal

[ShadowBeatz]

So I'm just gonna copy and paste Spinal's changes directly from the KI forums...

Spinal:

Color and skull logic:
Spinal’s attacks have been color-coded to more clearly show what does what: Green attacks give you skulls, Blue attacks curse the opponent’s Shadow Meter, and Yellow attacks curse the opponent’s Instinct Meter.

• Any time Spinal hits with a ghostly attack (green) he gains one skull.
• Searing Skull (with skull stock) projectiles are now colored Blue.
• Shadow Searing Skull’s projectile is now colored Yellow.

All of spinal's green attacks now reward one skull. That includes:

• Hitting with Crouching HP
• Hitting with any Spectral Manual
• Searing Skull (no skull stock)
• Spinal’s throw

Other changes:

• Crouching Medium Kick no longer sweeps and is now cancelable.
• Shadow Bone Shaker is now projectile immune.
• Throw Range increased slightly.
• Shadow Searing Skull applies its curse on the 1st hit instead of the 5th.
• Divekick causes a Ground Bounce when hitting an airborne opponent.

New skull use option:

• Spinal can now cancel all normal attacks (except c.HP and c.HK) into his run at the cost of 1 Skull.

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The fools buffed the hell out of him. I'm not a big fan of (and by that I mean I absolutely hate) the color changes to his skulls. They all should be that ghostly green. I hope they change that back....

But everything else, DAMN. I get a skull when I AA with crouching heavy? Yes please. Spectral manuals give me a skull now? You're too kind. Shadow Bone Shaker is projectile immune? It's about time, but I feel like you're making this too easy. And I'm keeping my pants on until I see just how much the throw range was increased, but I am unbuckling my belt.

Kinda sad about c.MK no longer sweeping but at the same time I'm cool with it because now I can't accidentally sweep them when I try to start a combo . The "canceling a normal into run" thing seems like a neat little wrinkle. Curious to see if/how it gets implemented into his game.

Anyway, I like these changes. I thought Spinal was perfect the way he was and now that he's been given more stuff to play with I feel like he has the potential to REALLY wreck shop. What do you guys think?

 

[AK L0rdoftheFLY]

So happy with this

 

[nuttyAFA]

i think run cancels in instinct will be hilarious and people will get very frustrated and start throwing out random DPs lol

 

[deathblooms2k4]

Tyrant is going to wreck people.

 

[Sn0opy]

I'm really looking forward to the changes for Spinal. I can't wait to try the run cancel out.
....aaaaaaand thank you for the projectile immunity .

 

[PhilAuto]

So, spinal uses skulls to cancel his teleport recovery, and has more ways to get skulls now. Am I alone in thinking it's BS he can use shadow meter to do it too?

 

[ABACABB]

good , im buying xbox one soon and I plan to main spinal or glacius

 

[ShadowBeatz]

So, spinal uses skulls to cancel his teleport recovery, and has more ways to get skulls now. Am I alone in thinking it's BS he can use shadow meter to do it too?

What do you mean? Even with a skull you can still grab him out of any special he uses, shadow or not, with the exception of shadow Searing Skull I believe (even though I swear I've both thrown and been thrown out of it)

 

[PhilAuto]

Huh, didn't know. Seeing as throw is 4 frames and glacius down LP is 4, that should work too? I guess I'll test it out anyways.

 

[ShadowBeatz]

Yeah, even with a skull to cancel with naked teleport isn't that great. Mashing a quick jab will also knock him out of it, but since most good Spinals won't teleport unless they fire off a skull to cover themselves, a reactionary throw is probably your best bet since you won't get hit by the skull during a throw animation.