Qwark28
Joker waiting room
This is going to be long FYI. They're my observations after 3 weeks of the game being out.
I've played a ton of matches, online and offline, at least 3 hours a day, with offline sessions with Nikolas, Metzos, Nivek, Cimmerian, Hidan etc from the Greek scene, and we usually play for around 12 hrs per session.
I've played against a variety of chars and have consistently seen the same issues pop up, all the time. I'm going to list his major issues.
- LACK OF MIDS
The character lacks mids, pure and simple. His fastest mid is a 15f F4 that does 5% damage. You're better off using his command grab at 14f to enforce any sort of incentive to not press buttons. He can't properly frametrap are his pokes, mainly D1 and D3, same for the opponent's. You have to choose between doing F1, as an interrupt, and risk getting poked or, even worse, D2 KB into typical 300-400dmg, another poke or a command grab, if you have it equipped.
Not having decent mids in this game is an issue.
- BROKEN/MISSING HITBOXES
A gigantic problem this character faces and, personally, more important than a lack of decent mids is the issues he has with his wonky ass hitboxes. His D1 is complete garbage range-wise. It whiffs vs half the strings in the game on block, you'll often find yourself in a situation where you block a D1 but yours will literally whiff for no reason. Him not having a good D1 is a massive issue, he already has bad/lacking mids, he can barely even use his D1 on top of it. That leaves you with having to use D3 on every exchange vs certain characters, e.g Noob, Kollector. So your fastest poke is now a 9f move.
His command grab is atrocious in every single way. Throws them on the opposite side with no option to choose, is 14f startup, doesn't tick from anything too important and worst of all, has barely any range. Its range is less than his normal throw, which is already a mediocre one itself. You'll notice this when it randomly whiffs after strings or pokes on block, where if you were to do a normal throw instead you'd hit.
Even worse, his fucking F122 string. Jesus christ, this is a trainwreck.
F1 is next to impossible to convert out of. I've conditioned my opponents to jump, hit them with it, then was unable to continue because it leaves you hanging for ages, you have to commit to the string as an anti air.
So you do F12. Except F12's hitbox is much lower than F1's, so your 2nd hit might entirely whiff and drop the combo, causing you to get punished.
If you F12 hits, you'll want to finish with F122 or Kahn Cut or command grab.
Sometimes F12(2) whiffs. Other times, Kahn cut goes below and over your opponent's hurtbox and whiffs entirely.
This string is so bad, in that you can hit F1 but not convert. Or hit F1 but not F12, or F12 but not F122, or F12 but not kahn cut. All of these except F1 by itself being full combo punishable.
So up till now, we have a character that is lacking mids, has stubby pokes, randomly whiffing strings and probably the worst command grab in the game after Erron's.
I might expand on this, he has a ton more issues but I think I've outlined the most important ones.
I've played a ton of matches, online and offline, at least 3 hours a day, with offline sessions with Nikolas, Metzos, Nivek, Cimmerian, Hidan etc from the Greek scene, and we usually play for around 12 hrs per session.
I've played against a variety of chars and have consistently seen the same issues pop up, all the time. I'm going to list his major issues.
- LACK OF MIDS
The character lacks mids, pure and simple. His fastest mid is a 15f F4 that does 5% damage. You're better off using his command grab at 14f to enforce any sort of incentive to not press buttons. He can't properly frametrap are his pokes, mainly D1 and D3, same for the opponent's. You have to choose between doing F1, as an interrupt, and risk getting poked or, even worse, D2 KB into typical 300-400dmg, another poke or a command grab, if you have it equipped.
Not having decent mids in this game is an issue.
- BROKEN/MISSING HITBOXES
A gigantic problem this character faces and, personally, more important than a lack of decent mids is the issues he has with his wonky ass hitboxes. His D1 is complete garbage range-wise. It whiffs vs half the strings in the game on block, you'll often find yourself in a situation where you block a D1 but yours will literally whiff for no reason. Him not having a good D1 is a massive issue, he already has bad/lacking mids, he can barely even use his D1 on top of it. That leaves you with having to use D3 on every exchange vs certain characters, e.g Noob, Kollector. So your fastest poke is now a 9f move.
His command grab is atrocious in every single way. Throws them on the opposite side with no option to choose, is 14f startup, doesn't tick from anything too important and worst of all, has barely any range. Its range is less than his normal throw, which is already a mediocre one itself. You'll notice this when it randomly whiffs after strings or pokes on block, where if you were to do a normal throw instead you'd hit.
Even worse, his fucking F122 string. Jesus christ, this is a trainwreck.
F1 is next to impossible to convert out of. I've conditioned my opponents to jump, hit them with it, then was unable to continue because it leaves you hanging for ages, you have to commit to the string as an anti air.
So you do F12. Except F12's hitbox is much lower than F1's, so your 2nd hit might entirely whiff and drop the combo, causing you to get punished.
If you F12 hits, you'll want to finish with F122 or Kahn Cut or command grab.
Sometimes F12(2) whiffs. Other times, Kahn cut goes below and over your opponent's hurtbox and whiffs entirely.
This string is so bad, in that you can hit F1 but not convert. Or hit F1 but not F12, or F12 but not F122, or F12 but not kahn cut. All of these except F1 by itself being full combo punishable.
So up till now, we have a character that is lacking mids, has stubby pokes, randomly whiffing strings and probably the worst command grab in the game after Erron's.
I might expand on this, he has a ton more issues but I think I've outlined the most important ones.
