The New Variations/Balance Adjustment Hype and Discussion Thread

[Evil Canadian]

Also Skarlet has krimson shield instead of red rain, COWARDS!!!!!!!!!! The dream of all-out assault Skarlet is dead

 

[Evil Canadian]

Do you think the Kollector downplay will continue?

I mean people downplayed Kitana and look what she has got now. And it sounds like Kotal ain't getting no universal changes to his frames which makes me sad.

Kollector will be downplayed until sonic fox plays him for 8 minutes on stream and says "oh hes kinda sick" then everyone will say kollector is good.

 

[Lt. Boxy Angelman]

Dvorah's 3rd

Add Deathstroke Spin D'Vorah to the list of characters who look rrreeeaaalll good right now:
Misery Hanzo.
Actual Kitana.
Ninja Shang.
Kollector Jin.
Spooky Kung Lao.
Full Brady Sub-Zero.
It goes on.

And Noob and Kabal made out like bandits.

 

[HiddenSelectCounterPick]

Jacqui looks cheap like 50 50 central with that air jump close cross-up it comes out on hit too....

 

[imMORTAL KOMBATant]

With Geras having Sand Simulacrum (teleport) now everyone and his mother have a teleport (Liu has two because why not?) + overhead/low mixup galore. Are we rewinding time to the MKX era? How kool that is...

 

[OfficialCasti]

Cassie 3rd might be the whole roster worst variation

 

[NothingPersonal]

Merge this thread to the front page one.

 

[Pan1cMode]

Cassie 3rd might be the whole roster worst variation

I dunno, those bullets are pretty fast, and safe on block.

True, no launcher is butt cheeks but she may end up being a decent zoner. Also, if they’ve updated the fly she might have some decent combo routes (although this is very unlikely).

 

[OfficialCasti]

I dunno, those bullets are pretty fast, and safe on block.

I think you are getting confused. You are thinking about ricochet bullet while she got the bouncing bullet that is a 50f start up that only hits the ground and the opponent can hop and punish. I think there isn't a slower projectile.

 

[DeftMonk]

I think you are getting confused. You are thinking about ricochet bullet while she got the bouncing bullet that is a 50f start up that only hits the ground and the opponent can hop and punish. I think there isn't a slower projectile.

Surely theres some way to set this up safely NRS knows what they are doing cmon.

 

[JDE]

Move is slow right now. I didn’t want the ricochet bullets either but we’ll have to see. Can’t really say much about it right now since they said that they’re changing some stuff around. Have to try it. So it might be subject to change.

Edit: Didn’t mean 23 frames

 

[legion666]

Shang’s New variation is actually the old school mk1-mk2 Shang with only skulls and morphs without Soul Steal.

 

[DeftMonk]

Shang’s New variation is actually the old school mk1-mk2 Shang with only skulls and morphs without Soul Steal.

it has no soul steal?

 

[SinkFla]

Kollector will be downplayed until sonic fox plays him for 8 minutes on stream and says "oh hes kinda sick" then everyone will say kollector is good.

I'm still waiting to prove myself to @IrishMantis

 

[legion666]

it has no soul steal?

3rd variation has 4 ninjas and fire skull. That is how this new 3 slot ability modifies him. No corpses, no crashing flames, no Soul Steal, no Sorcerer’s Rush obviously)

 

[NothingPersonal]

Imo morphing into ninjas makes it for not having soul steal.

 

[Juggs]

So are the moves getting adjusted whenever these 3rd variations drop? Still haven’t had time to watch the KK.

 

[JDE]

So are the moves getting adjusted whenever these 3rd variations drop? Still haven’t had time to watch the KK.

They said some, but it's not going to be like the bit balance patch we had in August. Only one that they've mentioned so far of significance was Liu Kang's F4 getting slower by 2 frames. So now it's 11 frames & not 9.

 

[legion666]

Imo morphing into ninjas makes it for not having soul steal.

Maybe it is, we need to see if they changed anything about the ninjas. I was just saying that i love how it is basically a reference to mk1-mk2 Shang move list.

 

[fr stack]

Thoughts on the noob variation i havent messed with customs at all so sickle overhead seems trash to me its very slow and sickle snag just replaces one kombo path for another ive always liked down upknee tho

 

[Slymind]

Did they say when they will drop the patch notes?

 

[Name v.5.0]

So they fixed the arc of Cage's forceballs....You guys realize how fast he can throw them right? If they don't whiff on duck blocking females, people are going to go ape shit.

 

[LawAbidingCitizen]

Kabal made out like bandits

I was hoping Kabal got Air Gas Blast the one that allowed him to dash in the air into JIK/JI2.
That move alone is strong AF.
So did he get the ground Gas move that just restands on cut off combos?

 

[STB Sgt Reed]

No Killer Clot for skarlet is a bummer. I really wanted to do blockstrings into it and laugh when characters like scorpion punish you and can't teleport for combo.

 

[LawAbidingCitizen]

So are the moves getting adjusted whenever these 3rd variations drop? Still haven’t had time to watch the KK.

They did say there will be a fair amount of balance changes with the 3rd Variations so I imagine many will get changes.
Liu had his F4 changed from 9 to 11f startup useable but easier to interrupt.
They said something about Shao but I forget and I'm sure others have changes as well.