Top tiers exist in all fighting games and garner a negative stigma for their sheer dominance over other members of the cast. Sometimes, this stigma might be totally justified. In your experience playing fighting games, who has been the most “bullshit” or “fraudulent” top-tier character that you have come across that made you contemplate what the developers were sniffing when they were developing that character’s tools.
And, by extension, who has been the most “honest” top-tier character you have come across? A character that may have been strong or dominant, but were so in a way that wasn’t completely outright obnoxious and didn’t hurt your soul to play against.
( P.S. Please don’t include banned characters in your posts. There really isn’t much point because if they are banned in tournament, chances are it’s a more objective stance than a subjective one, which is what this thread is all about. Opinions. )
honest
storm
sentinel
bullshit
magneto
iron man
sometimes cable
Every top tier in 3s is bullshit and it’s awesome
Nero : MBAACC
Normal all do multi hit with excessive range and seed, Has beast/support character that can safe him from mistakes or harass his opponents. Stupid amount heath allow him to cheese out opponents.
Eh, why I agree he is BS in a lot of matchups he isn’t god like he has bad/even matchups. Just in his good matchups which he has many he can win spamming completely brain dead strategies. His anti-airs are some of the few in the game that can’t really be challenged so you can’t play a very air borne game against him unless you can condition them heavily. In his bad matchups he can get wrecked pretty readily and he has quite a few even matchups. He does have a lot of tech you need to learn to combat though as other wise you’ll get wrecked and his insane back dash if you don’t OS will destroy any pressure attempts midscreen. In the corner though he is super free. Then again I played F-Aoko and if I ever cornered his ass he was super dead and sweep OS made his escape options super free.
H-Kohaku : MBAA however is infinitely more stupid and even in MBAACC she isn’t exactly fair just her command grab mixup isn’t 2 guess death anymore. Heck her command grab mixup COMBO’s on hit so there is no need to even think about it as the only answer is frame tight reversal (if you have one) or jump & pray she doesn’t just press 2P again. There is a reason she won evo.
bullshit: cvs2 bison/sakura. why are they doing so much unscaled damage with the CCs?
Honest: Morrigan UMVC3. While her zoning, flight, and meter building during astral illusion is powerful, especially when backed by Doom’s hidden missle assist. She has low health and poor damage output. So to excell with her one must be consistent in their play, where as all your foe needs is one random hit confirm into a combo to take her out.
Bullshit: Akuma SFTII. Capcom: Hey guys how’s this for a new character? A Ryu clone that’s evil and is better than him in every way with offensive tools that the rest of the cast have no answers for!
Yeah I think all officially tournament banned characters (like ST Akuma) are objectivally BS, they can’t even be played without breaking the game. Other characters…it is all subjective.
Honest: When a character is top tier because they have a lot of good tools
Bullshit: When a character has 1-2 tools that do EVERYTHING, and playing said character lacks any depth