ScraftyDevil
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Theorycrafters prior to FRXX: Ibuki needs a 2-bar V-Trigger to be viable
Theorycrafters following FRXX: lol nvm
Theorycrafters following FRXX: lol nvm
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Street Fighter V |OTVII| New Generation - Connection To Haters Was Lost
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CountBlack
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time to learn ibuki
TheSpoiler
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Balrog and Urien players am cry.
They're just happy to be out of the spotlight
That extra +50 HP was a big deal for her.
UcchedavÄda
Member
Nah. Gotta keep a low profile when the Capcops are in town.
I would do it but she seems so technical tho.
After a season of people saying he's so godlike and FANG was holding him back, he swaps characters and dominates. So happy for him.
The st.MK buff was one of the biggest buffs she got actually. That's actually a superb pressure tool now and leads into damage. Seemed like that's how it was always supposed to work but they forgot to fix it in S1.
The buffs to her sMK were huge too, I think. She's a much more viable character overall now.
TheSpoiler
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61k I thought. But that was all streams added in, so restreams and all that shit. Maybe a little bloated with some literally whos streaming SFV at the same time, but whatever.
SolarPowered
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From what I read most people think S2 is an improvement, but some characters just got left behind (pun not intended) and some universal changes were kinda dumb. I don't think this tournament will change people's feelings about v-reversals, white life, Alex, Ryu and Fang.
UcchedavÄda
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Zombegoast
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"We need to replace the hamster wheel"
For top 32 we had
CAMMY,CHUN,ibuki,guile,mika,balrog,rashid,laura,ken,zangief,Akuma, dhalsim, Birdie and maybe Urien.
Maybe i missed some.
It's an improvement from s1 but Capcom​ can still make the other characters more viable.
TheSpoiler
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That more or less depends on where you go. Like, my Twitter is filled with stupid shit and stupid complaints. Even some of the players were proclaiming that the game would be ruled solely by top tiers in every CPT event. Mike Ross made a prediction that every CPT event would be Rog, Urien, and Laura.
Now, he was probably joking, but man did people take that shit to heart.
Source?
UcchedavÄda
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TheSpoiler
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From memory, the only characters I didn't see at all were FANG and Alex. Saw a few Ryus limping around, and Flash's Vega against Pokchop (the best). Oh, and no Kolin's as far as I know. Other than that, not only did the other characters show up, some of the lower tiers busted some high tier ass.
Just good games all around.
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
Christ, more all-day server maintenance?
On the bright side, I played ranked for over an hour today and didn't have a single server error. Then I played my last couple matches in casual and, boom, couldn't retrieve data.
On the bright side, I played ranked for over an hour today and didn't have a single server error. Then I played my last couple matches in casual and, boom, couldn't retrieve data.
TheTylerRob
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Capcom learned nothing from last season. I'm not hopeful for this patch at all.
Just joking, but it's becoming so ridiculous it sounds plausible.
TheSpoiler
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I mean, after watching this tournament, I'd say you are right in so far that they made some really dumb design alterations, but for the most part, the game is way more exciting to watch right outta the gate and better than S1 in my eyes. More character variety, viability, more character stylings between players, etc.
My only fear is that they go too far with the nerfs, because I don't think the top tiers need much beyond scaling.
CountBlack
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nowhere near as complicated or technical as her 4 version lol
UcchedavÄda
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According to this post players in the top 32 used 18 different characters. That number is pretty much perfectly in line with what you'd expect if every character were equally likely to be picked by any given player in the top 32 and accounting for dual picks. So I am not sure that Capcom could actually improve on this by improving the balance. Even in a perfect world there will still be a sampling effect, which means that some characters will be over-represented and others will be under-represented.
Character variety was indeed not bad. I tried to watch KoF grand finals, saw Mai / Leona / xxx VS Mai / Leona / xxx and was depressed.
Nemesis121
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Ucchedavāda;231947974 said:
incoming Ibuki nerf..
This is why I'm never impressed when people brag about huge character numbers in KoF. At high level it's always the same few.
CountBlack
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this finals was a lot better than Chun fullscreen dominance/Nash dashing back and forth 40 times mixed in with some booms & ryu j.LK from hell
TheSpoiler
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I still can't get over Mika's ass flying over that sonic boom.
Or anything Xian did with Ibuki.
Shit, Tokido taking out that Gief was already pretty notable.
Are they all like that? Could have sworn I've seen some more variance but I don't know enough about KOF to call that.
Or anything Xian did with Ibuki.
Shit, Tokido taking out that Gief was already pretty notable.
Are they all like that? Could have sworn I've seen some more variance but I don't know enough about KOF to call that.
Tokido had it rough with back to back matches of what are probably his most difficult matchups.
EX air fireball makes the gief matchup a lot more tolerable as it makes gief question on Akuma jump ins. That doesn't work against flashkicks, lol.
direct_quote
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Those invincible dps though..
Heh. This is true.
Shadow_Lord
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Xian dropping FANG like
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