They Shouldn’t Have Touched RUFUS at all
guys…its very weird that JWong has said nothing about Rufus in SSF4 i guess Rufus is no more top tier player huh??
No I think it’s just the fact that he hasn’t changed much. Sure they nerfed ex-messiah a little and fixed the ex-snake strike but he is virtually unchanged. He still is most likely top tier and the fact that Sagat got nerfed just puts him in a better position.
when was rufus ever top tier
he has been considered a-tier since april 2009… I’d call him top tier…
Rufus is fine, especially with the nerf to sagat.
I’m glad with the way they’re dealing with him.
they are saying he doesnt have what it takes to win it all in SSF4…i’ll just have to wait and see
i think you misquoted. They said that it takes a little more to win with him now.
Yeah. It’ll now take 3 hit confirmable combos to kill someone instead of 2. You Rufus players are in for a hard time! :rolleyes:
Actually if the announcement that includes the usability of overhead moves is changed and now is more important for the gameplay then Rufus has already something new to his gameplay.
At list something that he wasn’t able to do in SFIV.I mean that if he can connect combos like target combo or HP jab->Tornado after his Overhead then its something really good.
I still don’t know how much the overhead moves will affect the game.
Rufus isn’t top tier. He has a lot of good shit and many more ways to set up Ultra than half the cast but there’s at least 4 or 5 characters that shut him out of top tier contention in regular SFIV IMO. He’s probably the best high mid character SFIV has to offer next to Viper but he isn’t straight sitting on the high throne of SFIV. If he was Sagat wouldn’t have 3 moves that render him near useless during mid range. He isn’t almost void of bad matchups like Rog, Akuma, Ryu and Sagat are. Plus with all of these new characters coming in who knows where he’s going to fit.
^^ I’m fully agree with you.
That makes 2 of us.
I wish more people to believe that because they think that Rufus is in the broken 5-team together with Sagat and the others.
But this is just false.
He’s like Zangief. He has stupid matchups on either end of the scale.
Yeah that’s coming from someone who will swear up and down how cheesy Rufus can be sometimes. :lol: He won’t let Viper burn kick or whiff a special move without landing a free ultra on top of the fact that Viper already has sub par footsies. If Rufus sees a burn kick and doesn’t find a way to land an ultra he is sleeping.
In the end there are just characters that don’t allow him to work his magic but IMO Rufus is a character that puts a big hurting on the other mid and low tiers but just gets punished too hard by the top tiers to warrant him as another top tier.
Yeah Mago said it best. Rufus is a character that works really well when he works…but when he doesn’t he just doesn’t. Against the top tiers he just falters and even against characters that he wins against most of his pressure setups are mainly shenanigan 50/50 dive setups. It’s just those shenanigans work out for him cuz the all them lead to huge damage if he gets them to work.
Also lol at Rufus having 9 pages. Even Dan has like, 40 pages now?
I almost forgot about rufus lol, I guess he’s like balrog pretty much fine as he is now
I almost forgot about rufus lol, I guess he’s like balrog pretty much fine as he is now
Lame and not really worth talking about? Yeah pretty much.
if srks truly are nerfed, Rufus is gonna be much better than people are placing him. That’s the one problem that really shut him down. getting trade srks all the time and getting punished. If he just flat out beats srks with meaty dive kicks or during the trade he doesn’t eat 500 damage, he’ll be really strong. he won’t need the insane damage if he can pressure even harder with the supposed srk nerf.
Rufus mains are smart enough not to ask for anything, obviously Dan needs something