I still honestly think Takeda isn't the godawful bottom tier character this forum says he is. Not with the normals he has, no way. Want faster normals? Reduce the shit out of his range then.
How a character can have anti-airing, near full screen normals and specials plus a (near safe air)teleport but can still be considered "horrible" and "low tier" is really fucking amazing.
seriously- play takeda for a month straight you will see what people mean...Just cause somethings personally hard to deal with doesnt make it good. the same normals you talk about are the same ones others bait and blow up from knowing the match up
Questions to ask -
why no takeda @ EVO? .. i mean we saw just as much of him as we saw of goro
why is he low mid to bottom on every high tournament placers "tier" list ...
Yomi had 3 players place top 8 at evo and one of them was Zyphox - who dropped takeda for lui kang so apparently Some skill was always there - think about how hard he used to fight for takeda - jumped ship and with like a 1.5 month old Kang (buffs and nerfs) he places top 8 at EVO
Raptor, Homelee, and st9rm do great with Takeda , but yet 2 days after they have something thats viewed by the masses- more people start to blow through the holes in our strings cause at high level play opponents wont hesitant to exploit these weaknesses. ..
Takeda was a solid mid tier and nothing has changed about him---but that was before every one else started getting buffs .. Kitana ,Reptile, Kang, Mileena, Kano, Shinnok, Quan chi, ermac, so by defualt- as everyone gets tweaks that move them up - its becomng hard to hang with them.. NOT IMPOSSIBLE- just harder.
and you talk about range.. theres still Ronin - which would be a very solid character yet one of his most dependent moves is far from consistent - hits once here, twices here, whiffs there,, doesnt come out.. etc. like for the people that constantly hit Ronin BC combos online i tip my hats of to you.. anything less than full bars and i might as well be playing with my eyes closed trying to land those bnbs