All the guys who were commenting were top spanish players who indicated they averaged about 1,000 hours of play time (with one guy claiming about 2,000).
They’ve all put in about 200 hours into Super overall.
I don’t remember any very good rufus player in the spanish top players, but anyway 200 hours is not a lot(well, it is a lot considering they spent the 200h in two weeks, but to set a tier list with all the new characters, it’s not a lot).
I think it’s enough to garner initial impressions, which is what this is. This isn’t the word of God. Things are subject to change and things might be discovered further down the line that change all of this. You may not believe them and that’s up to you, but since they’ve played super more than you or any one of us has at this point I’d take their oppinions into consideration. With a grain of salt, as always.
It’s not I do not believe them(and BTW I’m thankful they shared they impressions on the game). The statement “he’s still high tier” wasn’t necessary, and especially because that’s always the same kind of things we can hear on Rufus, most of the time from people who don’t main him.
I don’t mean to belabor the point but Rufus is top 5 in Vanilla. That makes him high tier there… I’m not sure what your definition of high tier is but that seems like a logical one to me.
Rufus was kind of hard to pick up and get used to, but once you understood him, he was so ridiculous.
Knockdown > constant dive kick spam / Dive kick crossovers > Tick throws, safe specal that does great chip, Target combo that leads into ultra thats also safe on block. Imagine being a character with no reversal, or require EX to use a reversal (Guile, Vega, Abel, Dhalsim).
Galactic tornado - Safe on block, links into ultra in corner, great chip.
J.RH - Great priority, links into both ultra and EX-SS. Both dealing insane damage.
2nd Highest Stamina - 1150
The guy only struggled against fireball characters
From pointblank range target combo can be punished
Everyone owns guile/vega, not just Rufus
90% of tournaments/online is Ryu/Sagat/Akuma (Fireball characters)
TBH I wish they would just keep him exactly the same, but of course they’re gonna nerf him.
Of course they’re gonna nerf him, the guy is the very definition of low risk-high reward. He struggles against top tier, boo hoo join the club.
I’m not sure how I feel about the EX Messiah but if they kept the priority I think that’s a win for Rufus players. EX SS damage bug had to go. Damage nerfs accross the board mean that nerfing ultra and certain moves wasn’t a Rufus specific nerf. Overall this means that Rufus is pretty much untouched relative to the old cast. The new cast might destory him though, especially rush down characters.
Why do people keep saying EX snake strike does less damage? I have yet to see this.
Has anybody seen a single instance of it doing less damage? I sure haven’t. I head heard it’s a glitch that for some reason cannot be fixed.
listen to what JWong says here: [media=youtube]cJ8_Dr2ttgY#t=2m57s[/media]
Sounds like an excuse. I bet Rufus would suck if that wasn’t a primary damage option/threat. Especially since EX Messiah did get nerfed. (Or I heard it did)
i dont care as long as his bnb combos are the same damge , as well as corner ultras damage .
That couldn’t be farther from the truth.
I was the one commenting on rufus in the arcadia podcast.
Dont know how it is in the version of jwong but in my game EX snake strike is nerfed for sure amons messiah and overall damage, will record it when possible.
I dont claim myself to be the best player by any means but i definetly know rufus pretty well and if the new characters dont give him much trouble he is going to be pretty good (and yes, rufus is high tier if not top in vanilla, no doubt about it)
Can you go into training mode and tell us how much EX snake strike does?
EX snake deals 210 damage
J.Hk xx Ex snake deals 300 damage
I think j.rh ex snake strike 370 in sf4?
MDR holding that shit down.
If you think that’s Rufus’ primary damage option then you aren’t playing right.
Still does way too much damage. I thought Rufus wasn’t supposed to be braindead anymore?