no offense, but what you said makes no sense. plus 1 settings affects both characters. if law kills you with 2-3 juggles on default,and so does zafina, on plus 1, its gonna take the same amount of combos to do the death. that doesnt change.
the thing is, when it comes to plus health debates, the combo shit is always immediately brought up by us all, but obviously its deeper then that. getting more time to play in a match gives you more time to flesh out your opponent more also, and is added pressure. the real argument about plus health settings is beyond combo shit. every character in the game now has very damaging combos on the right launcher, or even generic launchers that every character has, and dont give them a wall. its about well, this character has all this good shit, but this character doesnt have that, so the character that has more good shit, is still more likely to win even on plus 1 settings, because of the overall effectiveness of said character, so fuck it, keep it on default.
but in reality, that argument just doesnt show itself to be so powerful. when you play on plus 1, the first thing you realize is this is a longer, but better match, and you dont feel your getting robbed as much off a couple mistakes. contrary to the launch, rush down fest we see in american play, tekken is mostly pokes and maybe one juggle per character, per round. there is a reason korean tekken players have been playing plus 1 settings for a while, and their tier list are not drastically different then other tier list. i would think they wouldnt be playing plus health settings if they noticed how shitty it made other characters. i think they realized that, yes, this character is easier to rob you with, but if your skilled, you can still win with lei, kuma, ect…, and especially in br, you can really go to town with anyone. they will have a few characters in tier rankings that we think in america are lower or higher, and to be honest, most of those peoples opinion arent worth a shit, because there are people within the american tekken community considered to be top players, and still to this day dont even know basics about what to do against other characters. where as though scenes like in korea and japan have players that have played thousands of matches against top players of damn near every character, so they really know whats poppin when it comes to tiers.
like, really, if you been playing tekken like that, and you a top player, between 5.0 and now, you should still know a characters overall basic game plan. if you get hit by new shit, or killed by new characters, thats understandable, but there are top players having all these opinions in the world, and still dont know shit about a jack matchup, roger matchup, nina matchup, ect… so unfortunately, in some cases, i take american tekken players opinions with a grain of salt, and i tend to pay attention to the player bases that i know for a fact know what theyre talking about, and have put this into practice. not to sure why japan never adapted to the korean way to be honest. i know we’re hard headed here in general. lol.
so overall, from watching korean tekken since 5.0 up until now, and experiencing the vast difference in fun and play when playing 5.0 with plus 2 on health, i can say that it does not drastically change the game at all. simply put, it makes the game better in my opinion. i also again find it hard to believe the best tekken players in the world are doing it wrong with plus health settings.
plus 1 easily gives you better matches, and more character and player experience. its not like you cant get character and player experience from default settings. in my opinion, you just get more out of it because both people have to work more to win. its easy to play at a certain level, and be like, either setting, you still die off a couple combos, so fuck it, why go through the hassle, but at higher levels of play, nobody is getting all that random free shit all the time like you will see in american tekken, because asian players generally play a much more precise way and have excellent reactions. again, im not dissing american tekken, but you can watch tekken nationals and gain a certain opinion of the game, and roll with it, but honestly if you watch some of the better matchups out there on youtube of the same character, you can see that bullshit getting punished, and that at real higher levels, that shit dont float like that very often.
if anything, with the rush down style of play american tekken is, except maybe a few players, you would think we would prefer plus settings. lol
