agreed. this change pretty much “fixed” his bad matchups against shotos. I doubt he’s going to get any changes beyond those already announced + the fact that all ultra damage got nerfed. I’m curious to see what they do to his health now considering Sagat and gief got dropped down a bit. I don’t think it’s necessary to take away some of his health but at the same time I don’t see how they could leave him with more HP than the other 2 tanks… somehow that wouldn’t quite mesh.
I’d expect a slight HP nerf, probably some minor tweaks to his hitboxes and frame data but that’s about it.
Rufus doesn’t need 1150 health. God knows that.
no, he certainly doesn’t need it much in the same way that neither gief nor rufus really needed it. I’d be very doubtful if they kept it as is.
Gief needed it because you can keep him out much easier than you can with Rufus. Rufus needs it because he can link ultra in alot of situations, has an amazing pressure game, has one of the best EX attacks (messiah), is hard to get in with…wait what?
Rufus would be easier to balance if he had a smaller hitbox…
ive been thinking about this for some time but it think the only buff i think rufus needs is the ability to cancel his far standing normals into EX tornado, i believe it would really help with his bad matchups were he has to spend alot of his time getting small damage from his poor pokes (s.mp/s.mk) and far jab, i think if he could cancel tornado from far s.mp it would really help his game, and its only a small buff to be fair.
i think he can already do this with far s.lp on counter hit im not 100% sure tho if far s.mp xx ex tornado only combod on counter hit i would be happy . just my 2 cents (or pence as i am english lol)
Are you crazy?
rufus needs to stay the same at the most.
I’d like to know how your Rufuses are landing Ultra the moment they see a burn kick.
Remember my name…I will make sure RUFUS Rings bells
Sorry, I mispoke, I meant to say “Gief nor Sagat” instead of “gief nor rufus”.
I agree that in most cases gief needs it because of how hard normally gief has to play just to get in but because of how SFIV works in this game it is much much much easier than pretty much every other game I can think of. If we’re talking about ST then yes, Gief needs that HP. If we’re talking about SFIV I strongly disagree. He needs more health then most people, sure, but not to the point where you can wail on him for days on end and he can still shrug off the damage.
Rufus on the other hand doesn’t really need it. He has enough ways to get in and once he does he can really capitalize on his pressure game and bank on fairly safe ways into Ultra. He has bad matchups, of course, but who doesn’t? I don’t think scaling back his health by a small amount is really going to hurt him especially considering how his bad matchups (mainly Gief, Ryu and Sagat) have gotten nerfed pretty hard and how his risk/reward ratio is still pretty much in his favor.
The Bison match on the other hand, if the rumors about Bison’s changes are true, is headed pretty clearly in Bison’s favor.
I think its already been confirmed that Gief took a -100 health reduction like Sagat. And yeah, seems like Bison is gonna be close to his worst matchup if the buffs are true (as far as returning characters go).
It pretty much has been. Both sagat and Gief got health reductions in addition to other nerfs.
Of the new guys the only one I’m certain will be bad new for Rufus is probably going to be Dudley. I have no idea for the other guys though, we’ll have to see when the game is released.
Dee Jay would be a very interesting matchup for Rufus
IDK, I thought about it and had he kept his awesome normals from ST/HDR I’d have agreed but after seeing him in action on youtube I’m not so sure. It’s going to depend on whether or not his footsies are as solid as Dictator’s and Boxer’s IMO. We’ll see. I think rush downs might be a bit triciker for Rufus so I’d put my money on Juri, Ibuki and MAYBE Makoto. Her 50/50s might be able to lock him down.
Guy might be a problem for him, they both have rush down tools and Guy’s Tatsu looks like it’ll destroy dive kick attempts and Guy seems to have good normals. Rufus does seem the have the better advantage up close though.
We’ll have to wait and see though.
I’m not so sure about Dudley being a bad match up. Seems like his DP isn’t really that great of an AA and if capcom hasn’t nerfed the dive kick then he’s going to have a lot of trouble against dive kick spam.
also I dont think Dudley could zone rufus that well, since he doesnt have a fireball besides the rose but …yeah, you know what I mean
I really have nothing to go by other than seeing a few vids so obviously this is all speculation. I think that it’ll be easier for Dudley to be on top of Rufus than the other way around. Save for an EX Messiah once dudley gets his offense going it’ll be hard for him to get out. His DP isn’t godly but if it at least trades then he’ll get a reset and given the opportunity to go on the offense and it gives Rufus enough pause to reconsider going in the air. Being how Rufu’s ground game isn’t that good…
IDK, it could really go either way. It’s hard to tell from the couple of vids that have been released so far.
glad to see some rufus love on the board finally
If dive kick still hits big characters like Zangief and T.Hawk at torso and not at legs then Zangief and probably T.Hawk will be very difficult match ups for Rufus.
I think T.Hawk will be the worst actually.(lucky for me but anyway…we don’t know for sure)
Because if T.Hawk has the biggest or one of the biggest staminas in the game + shoryuken,condor spire and his command throw will be a great threat for Rufus.
He can pressure him anytime without Rufus can reversal this pressure.
It’s just a speculation.
But it can be possible.