Honestly, I don’t see why Capcom (or anyone else for that matter) wants to nerf boost combos. Versus any good player if you eat a light or medium attack you’re supposed to eat a decent chunk of damage anyway. Boost combos made it so anyone who was opened up took 25%+ damage. Now Capcom basically wants to punish people who struggle with hit confirms (which is most of the people online considering that the game sometimes shows the opponent actually getting hit, then rolls back to a block after you’ve already inputted the rest of the unsafe boost combo). It actually encourages people to wait, block, and punish which is exactly the defensive mindset so many people were turned off by before.
Honestly, with the way online fighting games are today, boost combos should be safe all the way up to the heavy attack. That compensates for lag screwing up hit confirms and helps put new players on more even ground with expert players. Sure the expert player will always find a way to squeeze out extra damage off a combo, but the new player should get comparable damage for landing a crouching medium attack. As they are now, most boost combo mediums are unsafe and you have characters like cody and zangief that will just wait and punish the negative frames. You basically have to run away, which again makes it more defensive. Between unsafe boost combos, invincible back dashes, 350+ damage off CC’d alpha counters, and too many wake up options - It is simply frustrating to pin down anyone who knows the defensive options in this game.
Welp, they just released it. I’ve only read Marduk so far, and I agree with all of his changes. I’ll actually be able to plink with punches with Marduk now
Kazuya and Julia got buffs AND nerfs, Bob got mega-buffed but lost the Granchi Loop, King got almost straight buffs, Marduk is mostly unchanged, Nina i’m not too sure about, and the exclusives I give 0 fucks about.
King was my first choice as a partner for Juri before the game came out. I wasn’t satisfied with him… All those damage buffs… He’s looking great and I may switch back and forth between using him and Nina who is my current partner. She’s looks in decent shape after these notes too. Looks like she mostly got buffs and things that were already unsafe became even more unsafe like almost everything else in all of the character notes. Which is whatever. Don’t finish links with Blonde Bomb. That hasn’t changed. Her normals were amazing before and those hurtbox changes I could see coming. And those are fair changes. Those faster normals are awesome too.
Yo, you too? My first team was Juri/King lol! He was just so awkward and I wasn’t as “in love” with King as I am with Juri (…my god that sounds effing freaky) so I dropped him, but played him sporadically. Going to add him back to the rotation for sure now.
Julia got hit a bit but not enough for me to drop her at all. Damn, Juri’s going to have a lot of partners. O_O
Well, now I REALLY wanna use King in some team. I loved the character but never had the balls to make him good. I’m also really happy to hear about his cr. hp being a good anti air. ANTI AIRS FOR EVERYONE.
Guys I’m with ya on pointless nerfs but right now I can’t…guys I’m paralyzed with fear cuz capcom LOVES to stealth nerf. I remember wut they did to sagat in Super. I’m praying st.lk is untouched frame data and hitbox wise. It is literally the only move keeping him out of mid tier or worse.
I do not have much hope. Someone plz pray with me.
Nina will finally get a cross-up boost on her j.mk at the expense of her j.hk’s cross-up (although j.hk could hardly cross-up). I wonder how effective the cross-up would be. Now I’m getting confused again if I should still keep Juri once 2013 gets implemented. o_O
I know right, Kaz got some alright few buffs I guess (will have to try it out to see what’s up) but damn losing invincibility on two of his main moves? Just like with Ryu I hope the haters are happy now…
Hahaha! Yeah I love King! I played him alot in my early Tekken years. Still one of my favorites. I’ve built so much on my Juri/Nina time now though that I am certainly not ready to drop her by any means. I did experiment with Alisa when she came around and I want to try her some more with Juri though.
They reduced the number of times he can juggle with the knee. Anyway, I’m just amazed at how much he got buffed. He has THREE viable anti-airs that do some sick damage. Watch out Sagat, it looks like the real King is here.