I’m glad Sagat is nerfed. Scrubs will now move on and cry about Dudley or whoever is top-tier in Super. I can now pick Sagat and not get the scornful look from a scrub directed my way. Thank you, Capcom!
I never even minded fighting Sagat that much anyway. The only thing that really gave me that much trouble as a Vega player was the damage disparity, but now that’s gone and Vega is much better, so I suspect this matchup will be even now (perhaps even in Vega’s favor).
I always thought health was at least somewhat about hitbox size. It seems like Capcom started with how big a chars hitbox was and then buffed/reduced health based on balance later.
Sagat, Abel, Geif, etc. get more health because they are so easy to hit with their giant hitboxes. There are some combos and other tactics that work better or only work on people with big hitboxes…
Blanka had a small hitbox but got more health because his char frankly sucks against good competition. Seth had a big hitbox but got less health because his char had so many good options.
I don’t think Angry Scar will make up for DP nerf at all, unless its cancel properties allow for some pretty useful combos. LOL, imagine c.MP xx AS, Ultra 1. I’d laugh if that were possible.
The s.LK nerf is already bad, because it affects a lot of his game. That move is his only line of defense once a character with strong footsies gets into range.
Also, I hate that Angry Scar does the flash screen thing when you use it. Shit is annoying as hell.
Are you that sensitive? OMG what a bitch
To those people saying Sagat will still be top or high tier in SSFIV: retards!
man, I love you lol
People who will be switching out of Sagat to whatever 1st tier character they think it will be in SSFIV won’t have it easy as SFIV Sagat.
I can imagine how their faces will turn out after realizing how they will actually have to work to win without depending on one sided advantage
I don’t know if capcom handled him the right way or not but he definitely needed to be toned down, he is pretty ridiculous in SF4. To people saying dudley will be the Sagat of SSF4 Ii say no way he needs to be inside to do his damage and has to work alot harder and im sure he will have some bad matchups.
Not exactly true.
Rose, Sakura, Cammy, and others have a bigger hitbox than Ryu, yet less stamina.
People who are still crying about TU nerf, come on now
Everyone’s got their uppercut nerf in order to make the game more aggressive, and Sagat is the only one who still can pull off ultra after uppercut trade…
Angry Scar is just an extra tool, it was never meant to make up the nerf
I don’t think people who’ve put in about a year’s work of practice on a character will suddenly switch gears and have to relearn all their matchups lightly - well, beyond scrubs and casual players anyways.
Even if it turned out that Dictator was complete ass in this game I would have still played him. I would have probably picked a decent alt for more competitive games though.
I don’t even play Sagat, and I think the TU nerf was a bit bull shit. 140-120-100 sounds better rather than just 100 across the board.
I have a friend who’s pretty damn good with Sagat thats switching mains simply because Sagat got nerfed so hard. Its not just scrubs that will switch from him.
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I find it’s much less stressful and much more fun to not even think about the reasons why the other players choose their characters. It also prevents me from feeling guilty if I pick a character with certain advantages.
Try it, it works. It also cuts down on loads of baseless complaining from both sides of the argument.
Well of course it’s not “exactly” true, it just seems to be what it is based on initially.
The game isn’t perfectly balanced and it isn’t intended to be, it just seems like they initially correlated hit box size with health and then tweaked it a bit later to get the balance they wanted. For example, in a recent interview S-Kill is talking about how when they were balancing vanilla SFIV Rufus was the shittiest char in the game. They changed his hit box a bit to be smaller (which explains why his health is still buff while hitbox really isn’t as huge as it maybe should be) and allowed him to juggle his Ultra, and bam he’s top tier.
Everyone got slight damage reductions on their DPs or just had numbers switched (like Ken).
Sagat took a humongous drop. To 100. What’s that gonna scare…Seth?
it wont even scare seth lol
I think Sagat nerf is terrible. I have SF4 on my PC and I will play it when I want to use the real sagat. The sagat in SSF4 is fake and bullshit
Too much saltiness going on here right now.
I’m a Sagat main and I’m happy with the changes. I think Sagat remains top-tier, just not having his own little tier (God-tier). My wins were coming way too easily, and I could truly feel how unfair it was to my opponent.
You know I would have loved to see Sagat get some additional tool to counteract some of the nerfing that was done to him. I guess that scar thing is it, but it’s largely unclear how useful it is at this point.
A little more speed and some new useful tool would’ve been a nice trade-off in my eyes.