Heh, and I thought asking for Cody’s close HP to be 7F was asking a bit much potentially.
So little perspective. People like to cite “like Cody” all over the place on the balance forums yet none of them notice how painfully slow his normals are on startup other than his c.LK. (6F average startup for close normals compared to Ryu’s 4.5F average. 5.5F average startup for crouching compared to Ryu’s 4.16F. 6.83F startup for far Normals compared to Ryu’s 6.5F. 7.5F startup for forward jumps compared to Ryu’s 5.6F.)
Giving Abel a 2hit 3F heavy that can be special canceled and linked to from f.MK? At that point why even HAVE a MP?
Evil Ryu is pretty much the official main of XBL alongside regular Ryu, so everyone will want their “dark, glowing evil badass of dooom!” x3 to be OP right?
Silly shit. But I can really see the Akuma thread next week topping everything so far. It’s going to be unbelievable. We’re going to have shameless tier whores vs rest of world. (And Y’know. A few genuine souls)
Look at how often Cody is getting name dropped as a reason for a buff or a comparison lol. And this is just a handful of the threads.
[spoiler = deejay thread]Deejay Thread
(fyi Cody’s U2 max half screen. And if you do it from too far sometimes the dust pushes them out and you get punished ON HIT.)
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Guy Thread
[details=Spoiler]Guy Thread
Cody’s slide and Gen’s c.MK are incredibly finicky for going under fireballs and require perfect spacing/timing which changes depending on the speed of the opponents fireball and doesn’t even work on all of them.
Like I said in the previous page, I have no idea where all these guys came from. I almost never see Evil Ryu online when I play on Xbox Live or PC. Their are a lot of crazy request, but IMO I think their is also a lot of guys making reasonable request with well thought out explanations.
As for Akuma, part of me thinks it won’t be that bad. But then again I didn’t expect so many players to go into the Sak thread asking for nerfs.
Maybe it’s your location. Because here in the west coast USA I find that Akuma/Ryu/Evil Ryu are the 3 most played in that order. I’m always surprised at the number of Dudley’s I find though. Dudley, Sagat, Guy, and THawk seem surprisingly popular out here.
The drop off between Ryu and Evil Ryu is staggering though. Akuma/Ryu outnumber any other character easily by a 4-1 ratio in terms of popularity. INCLUDING Evil Ryu.
But it’s essential to his game! Just like every single other tool Akuma has and if you nerf him even slightly he will plummet to bottom tier instantly!
The Hakan thread is probably one of the best so far. Sweet merciful Christ these kids want to create the most broken character this series has seen yet.
Well for me PC…it is Ryu, Ken, Cammy, Akuma, Evil Ryu, Juri everyone else.
Can’t wait for the Akuma thread. I’ve been skimming other threads for fun, but the Akuma thread I’ll really read every post. The tension level is going to be through the roof!
Oh god. I said in the Yun thread that I considered him to be one of the most balanced of the top tier characters in the game and considered him as a top 10 character. Somebody asked me why there weren’t results backing this up and I pointed out Kazunoko, Kaiser and Hsien Chang and also explained that results don’t mean that much because even most of the top 5 characters in the game aren’t placing that much in tournaments except for Akuma. Then I get this as an answer to one of my posts:
Best thing about this is the fact that I didn’t even once mention nerfing him and the only change I thought he needed was maybe giving +10 damage to his Cr. MP and contemplated whether he needs it or not.
In that bison thread some guy wanted less push back on scissor kick, and one frame more of frame advantage.
Why? Cause he’s “tired of having trouble applying scissor kick pressure in midscreen and corners.”