To be fair Shin, people aren’t calling Honda scrubby because he’s a counter to their character, they are calling him scrubby because he requires less work for the same outcome vs some other characters, but mostly because at the moment, it seems like he has very very few bad matchups.
The thing is, while it’s easy to just say all the “sore losers” are just upset because they are losing to Honda, it’s not the case here, it’s actually very close to the Metaknight issue in Super Smash Bros Brawl. Metaknight is top tier/hated because he has NO BAD MATCHUPS. You can get the best Captain Falcon player in the world, but he will have to work 10 times as hard to beat the best MK player in the world.
And that’s not a matchup issue, that’s a MK issue!
Basically what I’m saying is, it’s only going to get worse, because (as already stated) Honda is looking to be the MK of the game, only maybe one or two bad matchups but that’s it.
The reason for this right now is that he can succeed in almost any situation. He can go on offense with extremely low chance of punishment with his Headbutt for instance. He can turtle and go through projectiles, AND as far as I know can always beat out, or at the worse trade hits when someone jumps in on him with his headbutt. And if you’re not even into that, you can go Gief style with him and tick Ochios like crazy after headbutt knockdowns.
He’s got so many good options, and so many good approches, which is normally great for a character. But since he has the least amount of disadvantages of most characters in SFII, this gives him an unprecedented good matchup list.
Please any and all Honda players reading this, DO NOT TAKE THIS POST IN THE WRONG CONTEXT. I am not saying that Honda players are bad players and only using him to win, or ANYTHING LIKE THAT. I am simply stating some observations on Honda, and why there is so much controversy about him at the moment.
But yeah, don’t take that like an attack on you ShinBlanka
I just wanted to point out that the issue about people calling Honda scrubby isn’t about their matchup against Honda with character X, it’s about Honda HAVING such a high and untouched good matchup list. Like I said, he’s got only what? One MAYBE bad matchup? I’m still not convinced that Ryu is even a bad matchup for him, but that’s another topic! Lol.
Also one last thing, about your point, “choose a character to counter his fat ass!” Even ignoring matchups, I think the problem with that “solution” to Honda, is that most if not all players (At least I ASSUME) don’t necessarily want to win due to matchup/due to changing characters…They want to be the best [insert character here] they can be AND want to be able to overcome almost any challenge they can. Isn’t that what being the best with your character means?
Again, sorry to single you out there, lol.