Ono is a joke. But he’s not joking. He probably genuinely beleives nobody likes SF3 and want someone like Thawk or Blanca over Alex. So he needs to resigned Alex with a shaved head, maybe a tear tatoo and flannel shirt button only at the collar. Or maybe just have him wear black dockers and a wifebeater some stupid tribal and swastika tats.
Having mained Alex for so many years in 3S, god damnit, all I want is a low into special cancel. Might make him too strong honestly (the fun was in the high/throw/bullshit mixup, but whatevers).
I could see something like DDT or stomp becoming his V-Skill, TBH. Something movement-based.
You guys realize that we’ve already seen part of his sillouhette(english is not my first language, I dont give a shit how its spelled) and he’s got hair, right?
Not happy about the rumors of completely changing the character, and shaving his head.
I’m not kidding if this happens I’m out Capcom, I’m out.
With Mika/Birdie and to a lesser extent Charlie I understand the changes. Alpha games all 3 played radically different, and Mika needed to be better period. But with Alex he’s already such a strong and solid design, and we have an expectation. That said even if they did try to make him “the same”, they ruined the feel of Elena and Hugo, there’s more than just move set in getting a character down.
Strong and solid? He was low-mid throughout the SF3 series. He had a lot of limitations compared to other characters and only had brute force to show for it.
Every character in that game, with Sean being the sole exception, is strong and well thought out.
The reason Alex is mid tier in 3S is because he doesn’t have as much abuseable bullshit. That’s what separates the top (Chun, Makoto, Yun, Ken) and high (Yang, Akuma, Dudley, Urien) from everyone else.
Alex is fucking scary in that game. He can stun you in 5 seconds flat, his bread and butter combo is quarter life, he has tons of tools good mobility for a character his size and insane stamina and health. But again he doesn’t have: unblockables, easy hit confirms, a super that can be charged 4 times per round and delivers half life combos (Yun) or 100% combos (Makoto).
Remy, Necro, Twelve, Hugo, Q, these are also strong characters but are bottom tier for various reasons. If Remy Necro and Twelve had normal health and stun for example, they’d be mid or high mid. And if you nerfed the top and high gave them health stamina super stock damage output and stun output nerfs you could virtually balance the game without changing how a single character plays.
I’m not even displaying half of the characters potential here it’s just a quick show how strong he is, you’re not seeing mp x qcf KK anti air or landing super or hyper bomb etc. etc. etc.
I did. What am I missing? I referenced the rumor of bald Alex. Ono isn’t saying he’s bald he’s saying they -could- do something crazy like make him bald. They are probably gauging reactions right now, which I can’t imagine would be positive at a bald Alex…
I semi agree. He was well thought out he just had these minor things keeping him from being really powerful. It’s the kind of thing that could be very easily rectified in sf5 with some small frame data changes.
Much like they did with R Mika. Other than fiddling with her special moves, her normals are relatively similar with a few additions. They just changed the frame data on some stuff and suddenly she’s viable.
If I could change things about Alex in 3S: I’d make Flash Chop have less startup and recover, extend the hurt box, basically make it a slower version of Chun Li’s B.HP (why not it’s a special, basically his primary one and it should be a strong tool and basis for his game, and almost was…). I’d have c.HK have less recovery and startup, I’d make srk+k, whatever that move’s called, be un-parryable like Hugo’s backbreaker, and I’d slightly buff the damage of SAII and make it so if the character is out of range for the throw at the end, Alex just does another hit for less damage, rather than being left wide open with a long whiff animation.
Relatively minor changes really besides flash chop arguably, and wouldn’t change his tier standing much, but IMO he’s fine where he is anyway. He’s right there with Elena and Ibuki and right below Ryu and Oro. All strong characters as is, just not OP/Broken. That wouldn’t change but I don’t see a problem with that, to me it’s not that the mids need buffed so much that it is the top and high tier needs nerfed in that game, and I’ve gone through this in my head so many times (I’m weird/obsessed with 3S) I could balance the game without changing a single thing (even these Alex changes) or I could change small things. Like Chun’s kara-throw poof gone she absolutely doesn’t need it, many more things…
Regardless and semi-off topic anyway, I agree with you, slight changes and Alex is a complete character that is ready to be a strong contender in V.
Funny thing is if he was made a non charge character, he could be made the most annoying character in history immediately.
Imagine alex with crossup/noncrossup stomps with qcf+k motion. s. lp, s. lp…dash. s. lp, WAHHHH! (oh sorry that landed in front). That wouldn’t necessarily make him good, but it’d be hilarious anyway
Yeah, Necalli has charge moves, there’s no reason to make him non charge, the stomps can be instant anyway with partitioning but like SAIII setups the stomps are a beginners trap tactic that doesn’t work on seasoned players. Shoulder would then need to be nerfed to shit if made a command. Not good ideas.
