Your thoughts on character loyalty

[Amazing Muzzy Wallace]

Is it a good thing or bad thing?

Also,as one argument that floats around, do you think character loyalists hit a glass ceiling as players?

Discuss..

 

[podizzler3000]

i think mastery of a character is very admirable and beneficial to a winning philosophy, but loyalty past that point is selling yourself short. Particularly when the character you mastered is low tier. Not to mention so much fun can be had learning new characters.

 

[Zoidberg747]

1. It depends on the character. Competitively speaking, being loyal to a bottom five character is a bad idea. But not trying to counterpick every one of our characters bad MUs that are not 3-7s is also a bad idea. If you play a top tier character its best to just stick with one and master that one. At least for most people.

2. No. Anyone who is a top player in any game(or sport, field, w/e) will tell you there is always something new to learn or improve. Learning a bunch of different characters might help your MU knowledge, but doesnt necessarily aid in your fundamentals and might even stop them from inproving if you spend more time learning new characters than working on footsies, anti-airs, etc.

 

[Matador Fiend]

Its ok for casuals like me but if you are trying to be competitve as a character loyalist with Jason or something, you are fucking yourself imo

 

[Agilaz]

I will always have more respect for character loyalists rather than tier whores. Granted, playing a lower tier character may mean that you just don't reach the results you could with a higher tier character, but at the very least you're not taking the path of least resistance. I admire that.

 

[Skedar70]

I think you can actually master 2 and maybe 3/4 characters more than that and you are risking not using any of them to their full potential. Being loyal to a single character can definitely limit you on the competitive scene and can make the game boring. Learning a new character is really fun. I really like the variation system cause even if you only use one character you can use the different variations to spice things up.

 

[Doombawkz]

Character loyalty is character growth.

Even if they are low-tier.

 

[StealthyMuffin]

Multiple mains? Hell no! I'm loyal.
*gently brushes Takeda's ever-quivering lips*

 

[Nortnauq]

I think that it all depends on how competitive your play is.
I'm not loyal to any specific character based on story or lore.
I just find the one that fits my play style and stay loyal in that sense.

 

[Kingshootahz]

I'll choose some other characters for fun but character loyalty for me stems from no one else in the roster being as fun as my main..I beat you with Kotal I'm like ehh but if I beat you with Jax I'm Like GEt Rekt yes yes yes! That's what I practiced for that's my guy Fuck yea gotcha, tnx bai.

 

[LucaTheRipper]

It depends but either way i despise band wagon and tier whores.

 

[errormacro7]

I'm loyal to my favorite characters no matter what.

 

[Iustinus]

If you're a casual like myself it's fun. If you expect it from top players you're silly.

 

[Espio]

It is neither good or bad, it is dependent upon the player. There are successful top and mid level players who were character loyalists to mid and low tier characters so it's not like people can say if a character is low tier don't bother. As someone who only played Hawkgirl in Injustice and uses pretty much only Goro right now, I might get stuck for a bit, but I was always learning more things, always getting better at doing already known starts and improving fundamentally with my character. It's a never ending process.

 

[Blind_Ducky]

It's fucking awesome.

 

[Olcadan13]

there are almost 30 characters why would i use just one

 

[mattnin]

I know I'm gimping myself being loyal to Blood God Kotal even after the buffs, but I'd still rather play him then better variations like War God. I do play a pretty bad ass Mournful Kitana though. I would like to pick up a top tier character to fall back on though but I just don't get excited playing Kung Lao or Raiden.... I'm dabbling a bit with Sub Zero and Ermac. At this point it's hard picking up other characters being a loyalist to Kotal and Kitana. I'd like to pick a brain dead character for a change.

 

[Amplified$hotz]

It's overrated.

 

[Radiodine]

Im working my way across each character. Hoping to master every character in the game. Assuming lag doesnt exist online.

 

[tatterbug4]

It is neither good or bad, it is dependent upon the player. There are successful top and mid level players who were character loyalists to mid and low tier characters so it's not like people can say if a character is low tier don't bother. As someone who only played Hawkgirl in Injustice and uses pretty much only Goro right now, I might get stuck for a bit, but I was always learning more things, always getting better at doing already known starts and improving fundamentally with my character. It's a never ending process.

I swear everytime I found you randomly on injustice (360) you mopped me with Martian not hawk girl.


Anyways dvorah loyalist ftw

 

[Scott The Scot]

It's a pretty cool concept I guess.

 

[Espio]

I swear everytime I found you randomly on injustice (360) you mopped me with Martian not hawk girl.


Anyways dvorah loyalist ftw

I don't play on 360 and have never owned one haha. I have an imposter dopple ganger? Do tell lol. I did use both of them though.

 

[tatterbug4]

I don't play on 360 and have never owned one haha. I have an imposter dopple ganger? Do tell lol. I did use both of them though.

I swear I've seen a espio on 360 multiple times and everytime I found him I'd have to deal with the zod vs mmh MU and I get bodied nearly every time

 

[Scoot Magee]

If you play a character because you like him that's fine imo.

If you choose to play one character but bitch about how good/bad they are it's bad.

 

[A F0xy Grampa]

I dunno, I typically like characters that are fortunate enough to be good i.e Wonder Woman & Kung Lao

I liked learning other characters in MK9, but in both injustice and MKX the one I mained fit me well enough to not need a secondary.
And at the same time, no other characters interest me in mkx, cause I've got at least 2 tournament ready variations to master.

If you are 100% loyal to a shitter, and complain when you lose, I'll quote 16 bit when you cry over a loss 'not my problem'.

If Lao was a shitter in this game, I'd learn the strongest character that I could play most efficiently according to my style.