Arde5643 said:
Not yet - right now it seems that there are only very few characters that are considered tourney worthy over everyone else (Raiden, Cyrax and Kung Lao obviously - probably Ermac, Sub Zero, and Nightwolf as well).
If only 5-7 characters out of the roster are playable in high tier tourneys than it probably won't go much on tourneys from now on.
Although with the patch coming out, it might be different altogether.
They really need to rebalance Raiden, Cyrax and Kung Lao though - I'm just afraid of everyone going to these 3 whenever their actual mains get in trouble since these 3 characters are so easy to use.
Having 5-7 characters being tournament viable is still more than enough for this game to be "tournament worthy". That's still more characters than most fighting games including a particular 3v3 FG that released 10 years ago.
And game is still new, there is a lot of undiscovered stuff in the game. Tier list will get shifted and other characters might come up. Technology will be found that might single-handedly shift the tier list around.
I think the bigger problem is the amount of people asking for instant patches. Pretty sure this is most people's first experience watching high level fighting game streams or getting into the scene because let me assure you... having knee jerk patches for fighting games is a bad idea and will pretty much stunt the growth of it's competitive scene. It will not have a chance to evolve and get to where there is true high level play.
If you rebalance those 3, then the next 3 after them become a "problem". Would you nerf them too? Then the next 3 become more powerful than the rest and it's a cycle until you end at the original 3 who by now are back to being the most powerful because everyone else got nerfed to shit.
If anything, keep Cyrax, Kung Lao, Raiden the way they are and buff the lower end of the cast. Watching these 3 characters fight is far more interesting than watching the lower tiered characters (well I like watching a few others like Kabal).
sorry I don't take orders easily!
