So much hate from players and strong tournament showings, it’s bound to happen. I predict knee-jerk nerfs followed possibly by slight buffs like we saw over the course of SFIV. +1 on HK donkey is a gonner for sure, plus I think he’ll have his damage output neutered.
Worrying if it does happen because I think once people start crushing all his good, crouch normals with launcher he’s going to be much less of a problem. I don’t think he’s overpowered but the general consensus is people just do not want him top-tier.
Don’t think hes overpowered? His slowest crouching move is five frames lol. Five frame sweep and they even made it special cancellable just because why not make him perfect.Who the fuck gets safe sweeps? So we get through the fireball, past the SRK, only to get to super safe high priority normals that can’t be punished. And thats not even mentioning Tatsu. The rest of the cast isn’t even close to being in the same league as this guy. Relative to the rest of the cast, yes he is very overpowered.
yea. i’m not one to advocate nerfing, but ryu frame data does need some adjusments. and +1 on kh donkey shouldn’t be there in the first place. it’s one of the dumbest frame traps ever. especially considering this guy have sweep cadc pressure as well.
Um…CADC isn’t safe, you can hit him during the dash. Test it out in training mode if you don’t believe me. And, yes, he will get nerfed, it’s inevitable, but I’m OK with that, as I’m sure Capcom won’t take out special cancel sweep. Well I hope, lol. And he deserves to have some SF2 traits. He’s been nerfed ever since SF1…
He is not overpowered. I hate it when people use that statement because it makes it feel like he’s nearly invincible. Overpowered are characters for example are CE. Dictator, CvS2 Blanka, T4 Jin, etc, etc. Ryu is just simply strong within the game of SFxTekken. The thing that needs to happen more so then anything else is that they leave characters like Ryu alone, but focus on improving the characters whom have significant problems vs the strong characters.
One might also say that CvS2 Blanka is not overpowered and that he’s just very good within that game. After all Ivan Ooze from the Power Rangers game would crush him 10-0
Looks like Ryu escaped pretty much unscathed from the new balance patch. Air tatsu nerf is meh, might stop him continuing pressure after a block crossup tatsu.
slight ryu nerf is fine people are just lazy and dont wanna learn how to fight ryu they just need to buff the weak characters instead of just handing out them pink slips
I don’t care about the nerf personally, last time I checked a blocked Joudan doesn’t do any damage and was only really any good for punishing compulsive button pushers and trolling people.
I don’t think he came out “unscathed”. He didn’t become severely crippled like Ken is going to be, but not unscathed. HK donkey kick allowed Ryu to pressure characters like Julia, Guile, Zangief, Rolento, Vega, and Dhalsim who otherwise outclass him in footsies (and zoning in Dhalsim and Guile’s case). In Street Fighter IV, many times you could be content with fireball/low forward fireballing your way to victory almost exclusively because even if your opponent got the life lead, there wasn’t THAT much life to make back up. With the timer so short in this game, it’s extremely helpful to have good +frames pressure and a way to bypass good pokes keeping you out when time is ticking down.
