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Who do you think is taking the biggest step up?

Duck Nation

Dicks with a future
We haven't really had this thread yet, though people have tilted at a bit in others. Since it's still Theory Fighting Week™, might as well put it up and let people get their thoughts out there. Black Adam seems to be in a pretty much unanimous consensus on who took the hardest hit and the biggest tumble down the tier list, but who do you guys think is going to make the biggest jump up it? This isn't only a question of who got awesome buffs, but who's benefitting the most overall from the changing ecosystem, whether they got changed even at all.

To start - I think it's gonna be Lobo. He's going to be a mid-range monster now based on the range of his chain moves, and only probably get scarier the closer inside he gets (i.e., getting into czar toss range, getting into close normal mixup range) along with nuke shells bringing his damage pretty much all around up, between improved combos and beefier raw shots - hell, his meter burn pump shot may now do almost 8% on chip! His bad wakeups are going to be turning into pretty darn good wakeups, too. He already had damage, and now he has more notable space control coupled with better ways to set it up. I see him climbing from nearly rock bottom to at least dead in the middle of the cast, and maybe better than that.
 

Flagg

Champion
Zantanna then Lobo. Both of them got really good buffs. Zantanna was already good to begin with.
 

zaf

professor
Ares - teleport sounds too good now.

Green arrow- mb stinger with plus frames is going to make pressuring him on wake up a nightmare.

Kf is going up with everyone receiving nerfs.
 

Spinky

Neutral Skipper
Lobo, which sucks because I picked him up before I knew he was getting buffed and now everybody's gonna think I'm bandwagoning.
Ares and Frost (bitch) are definitely gonna go up too, though.
 

Gesture Required Ahead

Get on that hook
Arrow - If Stinger MB will be +4 or more he's just going to be like Doomsday with that garbage.
Frost will benefit from all the nerfs and she herself got buffed
DS maybe will be able to set his Trait up so it'll be nice to see what he gets from it.
Ares got Zatanna's grounded TPs. Fuck...
 

Jeffreys

Grundy think you handsome!
Lobo, and Ares are probably going to be really good.

and Black Adam will not be a bad character. Well then again the Black Adam players needed a 8-2 to 6-4 advantage to consider themselves viable.
 

Circus

Part-Time Kano Hostage
My opinion is that Aqua, Flash, KF, Mmh, Zod are benifiting the most because in my eyes they're the new top 5.even flash who got slightly nerfed benefits because his only bad matches got worse. I don't think any of those 5 have any bad matches anymore.

But honestly tons of characters benifited. Lots of them will no longer lose so bad vs ba, supes, and Batman zoning. That means they will only have about 1 to 3 matches they lose (nothing unwinnable). This includes grundy, nightwing, green arrow, harley, doomsday batgirl, and maybe some others.

It makes it so about 2/3 of the cast might be considered "top 10".
 

xKhaoTik

The Ignore Button Is Free
Lobo is a completely different character now so he's definitely going to take a big step up.

Then Ares since he was kinda revamped as well.

GA being able to duck projectiles now and has a safe way in makes me better overall.

And of course, Frost got nothing but buffs, plus she was already top 10, and with the top tiers being nerfed, she's gonna be really dangerous now.
 

xInfra Deadx

Gimmick stolen by Jordan Peele
Lobo and Ares for sure. I am definately picking Lobo up after the patch.

Nightwing will also benefit some from the other characters' nerfs so at least i'll be glad to play him some more.

Killer Frost can go to hell though. Her slide does not deserve to be safe up close.
 

Qwark28

Joker waiting room
Lobo, and Ares are probably going to be really good.

and Black Adam will not be a bad character. Well then again the Black Adam players needed a 8-2 to 6-4 advantage to consider themselves viable.
Leave over extended anus and all salt excretions out of it on the door pls.