What I disagreed with was how low you were wanting to put his damage output, especially by comparing him to three characters, two of which have teleports. Good teleports. The third, Firebrand, probably needs more damage anyways, soooooo..
I said slightly more. If those characters have average damage of 650K off of a hit confirm, Zero should be no more than 750K.
Zero has command dashes too and this is attached to a character with some of the best combination of start up/active/recovery/range normals in the game. None of those characters have an abusive tool like Buster (Strider's Formation B is close but it's still no Buster and Firebrand has that death trap). None of those characters have something like double Lightning cross ups mid screen (Strider has similar stuff but he has to choose between angles where as Zero can cover a large portion of the screen while in the air). Add on top of that Zero has Sogenmu which amplifies his space control, mix ups and dominance even more.
A character doesn't need a teleport to be godlike. Case in point Firebrand, Viper and Zero. You need tools and Zero doesn't lack in tools. He hardly has any bad match ups and he has the tools to do whatever he wants whenever he wants.
have you seen haggar try and catch many characters from the air or get in against zoners? should they all be nerfed? i wonder if dahbomb thinks dante/virgil's damage should also top out at 600/650.
Dante doesn't do that much damage to begin with. His damage right now is "fair" for his archetype. Dante rules in the space control and versatility game, not in terms of damage and combos. Vergil does on average better damage than Dante but does NOT have the same space control and versatility. Dante is a better character than Vergil but you are more likely to die and even get hit by Vergil YET the opponent is also more likely to kill and hit Vergil. I also don't understand the health differential between the two, they both should be either 850K or 900K.
And it's not like reducing Zero's damage is going to put him out of best character in the game slot. Dante despite getting his damage greatly reduced (plus other nerfs) is still an S tier character. You would have to be fairly biased if you think Dante should have his damage nerfed but not the same for Zero.
I also don't even care about how much Zero does in a BnB as much as I care about why the hell his and Viper's special damage scaling as capped at 30%. That's as much as the Hulk. And SURPRISE SURPRISE... they all do the same amount of damage.
