Actually a bunch of people thought that Alien was dangerously strong early on -- but they were shouted down by people saying "he's fine" and that everyone needed to learn the matchup. Similar to Tanya.
Very, but people get away with it for now. It's the worst area for him imo. The only one that is safeish is MB Rifle, with the obvious pushback effect, but it has slow startup so some characters will full punish you like Catwoman j2, air dash chars, Beetle, Harley, etc if they guessed right and I waste a bar. The other projectiles you either can punish or create block pressure, unless he does close ricochet which will hit you, but if you read that you can close the gap and pressure or some characters like Aquaman, Adam, Supergirl, and such big punish . All a meta game.
Describe "early on"? I'm specifically talking about Injustice 2 out for 1-8 days early on. I dunno about twitter or all that jazz, but here on TYM the first two weeks this site was riddled with nothing but anti-CSZ threads every single day, every other status, and I barely saw any Alien threads or mentions at that time. It wasn't until around week 3-ish his name started coming up, and by week 4 we had a patch nuking CSZ and massaging Alien's back. Even then there wasn't any 'wow why wasn't Alien nerfed" after the patch until weeks later when everyone and their grandma started playing him.
The only people jumping to conclusions are the people asking for nerfs. The argument isn't that deadshot is "fine" it's that it's too early to say.
It was really kind of a rhetorical question because people are saying he's great at everything. People need to figure out where to be on screen against him because he doesn't win at all ranges. I've played the match once and came to some of these conclusions already to help with the MU.
Yo. Dead shot is not the only one. Should somethings change? Yeah. Down the road sure but like you said it hasn't even been a full week and there's bitching.
Preach, man.
Just imagine if this current community had to play through years of Tekken 4 Jin and simply learn the MU, their options, and deal with it. Imagine. @Eddy Wang
What does he need?
Some people hate zoning so much that I bet they would remove all his normals and say he's fine.
I honestly don't even know if it's zoning that's the issue here. People just don't like when things seem hard to get around. Instead of evolving the game into what it is they want to change it.
What he has. Minus a 50/50.
What about the characters that don't have a hard time getting in on him? That could give him some really bad matchups.
Level 2 trait won't make you feel helpless, it will make you helpless lol
You mean he'll have to adjust? Oh no we wouldn't want that, he needs to be easy as can be
That's a pretty hypocritical statement.
There is no adjusting to a character with no weaknesses. He needs a weakness as does everyone else
It's a debate cause people swear he's fine it's it.
one week and you come to this conclusion? He doesn't have a good anti air option and when just outside of the range of his normals it's risky for him to throw out any projectiles. It's only a week in, please just try harder before you advocate for nerfs on the basis that a character has no weaknesses.
I hate this notion that just because a game is in the beginning of it's life span means you can't deterimine anything at all about anything. It's really ridiculous, sure more things will come to light, but to say that you have no idea how this game is turning out is simply naive. You don't need to anti air a jump in when you can just back dash, shoot, space it out or meter burn roll away.
You don't need a 50/50 to combat the few characters that have an easier time getting in on him.
I just don't see how you or anyone here can know what specific changes need to be made within a weeks time. Maybe the best solution is to buff some of the characters who struggle? Maybe not. Like I said earlier, it's more risky to make knee jerk changes early on than it is to let the game play out a bit before hand. He may not even be the strongest character but he's the one getting the most attention.
