I believe it has happened before, with speculation that SRK might be shut down.
Maybe Event Hubs is about to become the premiere fighting game web site. It at least posts new articles, and it isn’t like SRK’s articles are better than Event Hubs’ at this point anyway.
@Rice_Eater@Mike_MF_Hall and @Highlandfireball would be able to give you the best responses. Althought Rice moved to Akuma a while ago, Mike just switched to full Sagat main and Highland pretty much has thrown Roo man to side guy at best since Sagat’s launch. Sooo yeah.
My take is he’s the most playable version of himself since S1, but don’t expect him to make waves in CPT.
I hear you about Laura. That kind of feeling is what made me want to switch at the start of this season. I give props to the Laura players out there who are able to hold it down. It is sort of a style clash for me I think but I also feel like if I’m going to play that kind of character I mightas well just play Mika and actually fuck people up when I get in. Or what I’ve decided for now, pivot away from that kind of up close aggro character and go for a different kind of dirt.
My boy put on his suit and told the world he was ready for the big stage.
About vt1 and 2. I actually use vt2 a lot versus players that play crazy. It’s a pretty good style matchup against them. They can’t really play keepaway so I can just fmp>high/low into v trigger all day and since they aren’t super fundamental players, the chances of me getting punished hard on block isn’t much since it’s only -2
Ryu’s definitely playable now, and his fireball game is really fun if you’re one of those assholes that like that sort of thing (like me). He’s still stubby, but he can keep people at favorable ranges and his punish game is better with buffed LK joudan.
I’m incapable of actually assessing character strength aside from that, but he doesn’t feel like he’s in a wheelchair anymore, at least. If anything, his biggest problem would be redundancy (“why play Ryu when you can play X instead”)
I feel you there. I know she gets a lot of shit but I feel like so many things have to come together at least for me to win. Meanwhile I get tapped by whoever and get put into the corner off one combo.
I thought about another grappler like Mika or Alex but who knows.
Yeah she can still rob and roll folks and players like Idom make her look really nasty still but I have a helluva time navigating her up close game.
What sort of broke me was feeling like I had to stay on top of the opponent while also navigating EX DPs that break pressure or dodges on the command grab. Which is grappler life but the pay off felt shitty.
Part of that is me realizing that I don’t think I like playing grapplers, or at least in this game. And why I started looking at Kolin and G for alternatives (G feels grappler adjacent).
Good news is this season still has some really strong grappler candidates if you want alternatives. Mika is still really strong, Gief seems better than he has been in awhile, Abigail is still a fuckhead, and I know Alex got buffed up but I can’t speak to what that did to or for him because online Alexes all play the same regardless.