STRYKIE
Are ya' ready for MK11 kids?!
You could still cancel the Soul Ascension into specials back then, and Soul Ascension 2xxAir Blast was, and still is a true blockstring, and leaves you plus on block. I don't remember ground slam ever being worse than -1 on block either.Vanila Spectral: if you cancel a normal into flight, you do ONE air normal (because he couldn't do air string 1234), then get punished there, or cancel that air normal into air moves (all are unsafe, the low ground slam was dead on block, not to mention everything has a gap) then eat a full combo. This stupid design discouraged players from using flight, without it Spectral is exactly variationless Ermac. Tell me how is that good
And I mean, if you wanna go by vanilla Spectral with no patches whatsoever, doing that same air blast in Soul Ascension gave you a whole bar of meter... Go figure.
The point isn't about any of that anyway, but rather (as the thread suggests) that most of the Ermac community convinced themselves in a few weeks (was it even that long?) that Spectral's toolset had been completely fleshed out and was at the time the absolute most useless variation out of a field of 75.