Just saying now, that wasn’t me. TBH I am not that fond of Lightan. Not as a character at least. I like playing him in this game, but not as much as PTX.
I agree with Keits. I love unusual characters that have to be played differently and I love the giants. But most specifically PTX. <3 I don’t know what makes him so fun. I think it’s the guns. Too bad he has those random elements, but if he could choose what weapons he got, nobody would use anything but missiles.
And that’s why they’re random.
Lightan has wayyyy more style than PTX. I mean, one of his supers, he fucking throws you down and steps on you.
Do you understand the severity of that super? A GIANT ROBOT IS STEPPING ON YOU.
Lightan is the shit. Until they learn to tech your command grab 100% of the time, then he fails horribly to blocking. Luckily no one around here can tech it even like 20% of the time, haha.
O.o it can’t be. I think the only ones who can neg and pos are premium users.
I like Lightan because he screams his attack name whenever he attacks. That makes him a lot better and original than a ton of those mechas (aside from the fact that he uses his arms and legs for fighting, instead of using weapons).
If only he has Gold Shoryuken in-game…
Eh. I think Lightan’s command grab is much harder for a human to tech since it has to be mashed, and he does it pretty quickly. It’s nothing like PTX’s shitty grab which is utterly…UTTERLY worthless.
i feel like just getting up and leaving my game when someone use one of the giants more than once.
I dunno why but PTX has like an hour to tech Lightan’s throw.
Also something useless of note, when you pick Silver Lightan, all his move names change. (ie: SILVAA FINGAAAA CRASHHHHHHHHHUUUUUUU)
That’s awesome.
How can you not love that.
I’m very annoyed with all this bullshit that the giants have to put up with. Karas rapes lightan now thanks to chain > infinite, which for some bizzare reason doesn’t damage scale and kills him really quickly. PTX just got a new counter in Yatterman, and characters like Batsu, Megaman and Ryu can juggle him after their level 3 supers land.
I mean, this is really just unfair. And the dumb thing is that this is a console game on the Wii, which means that it will NEVER get a patch or any kind of balance update.
but anway…PTX can still be used against certain key characters. He may be able to combat Lightan better than PTX (not sure if the infinite works on him) and also both giants can still be used effectively against Chun-li.
come on squirrel, just give up. giants are gonna get raped for free, period. this game is just two months old, and shit is already to serious for them, and getting real serious for people with this supposed karas problem. play them though if you want. be a giant aficionado, but i think their future of competing is shit, unless we just need more giant players to find giant nastys, and even then, ill still happily call them trash. 
If it weren’t for these counter characters, the giants could definately compete. Just take a look at Keit’s Lightan. That thing is a beast. PTX is deeper than you think, too. There are still so many things that people aren’t doing to play the giants effectively.
It is such a shame, because if it weren’t for these stupid juggle inifinites, Lightan and PTX would be the answers to Karas and Chun Li.
If they removed the command throw vulnerability of the giants, they’d be better.
Yes. They would.
but unfortunately I doubt that’s going to happen. And my usual pessimistic thinking leads me to believe that they are going to be nerfed even further in TvC2 when it comes out, because game developers are sometimes ignorant about stuff like that.
If giants didn’t get hit by command throws and attacks like chains and stuff, they’d be really scary. I might actually main Gold Lightan, lol.
Well, maybe not. It’s capcom. They’re not the best, but at least…I think…they put some consideration into rebalancing when it comes to their fighters.
…or they’ll listen to what all the Wii casual gamers say.
“Urr, the giants are so unfair. I can’t knock them over. U made them too strong!”
“Oh shit, I thought we’d balanced the giants by making half the cast be able to beat them easily? Obviously not. Let’s make them unable to megacrash and baroque in TvC2!”
I have to say that they dont belong and they should not, be but I will say that they give you options on if you want a team or not
pff, of course they belong…
Anyway, Ptx doesn’t struggle as much vs Karas as I thought. Turns out you can pushblock his rope (which doesn’t have much range) and retalliate with an A version chainsaw. Getting hit by the rope is still bad news, but if you’re careful, he can be punished for it.
I still don’t know if the infinite works on PTX like it does on Lightan.
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PTX IS UNSTOPPABLE WHEN HE IS IN CUTSCENE MODE
Best combos I’ve ever seen. This is way too good.
… <_>