Proportionally speaking, who is the most broken FG character ever? I’m talking someone who’s moveset limits everyone else’s options to the minimum, who’s mechanics were just not designed for the game they’re in and end up destroying everything the game was supposed to be.
And then, there are characters who are just plain better than everyone else by such a wide margin that they render most other characters uncompetitive.
I nominate Sasquatch, Darkstalkers 3. Okay, maybe he’s not the most broken character ever, but I fucking hate him. Piece of shit triangle jump dashing bastard.
Sasquatch is a very tame example, he inches above the good characters clearly but he’s far from actually being dominant. For a Capcom top tier he’s pretty manageable
Since saying characters that were obviously meant to be “god” characters and trump the rest of the cast (Gill et al) is lame, I’ll have to say Petshop from JJBA
It’s frightening to think he is selectable and meant to be taken as “equal” to the rest of the cast - We’re not talking “ST Akuma” broken, we’re talking something else, a character that probably got in without any kind of playtesting and that I can only assume was added to the game in a rush
A large portion of the cast has simply no way of reliably putting pressure, mixing up or even hitting him, his dodge recovers fast and is spammable, he has mindless combos without meter for ridiculous damage, etc.
I could sort of tell. I’ve played a bit of JoJo and can appreciate somewhat how absolutely retarded that combo is. In a game where you can easily build 5+ stocks of meter in a match, having an 80% damage combo off of a normal like that one (not sure which it is, but it looks good) for what is essentially a negligible resource cost is immense. And I imagine Petshop has little trouble building meter in the first place, considering his seemingly projectile based combat.
Not to mention if you didn’t have meter when the combo started, you’ll have it by the time you need to super nearly 100% of the time
Now contrast that to some other characters, whose BnBs sometimes require more than one 1f links for moderate damage and that you need to be able to pull off consistently to even hang
