The most broken characters in (competitive) fighting games

[Hatred_Edge]

Eddie from Guilty Gear XX: Slash is pretty crazy too.

I expected #R Eddie. Not Slash Eddie.

[razorXZ]

What does the OP mean by competitive though, more elaboration might help people post up some legit ones for you.

Darriou

Mortal Kombat Deception

He is the Tier list, the Tier list is done with his moves. If you want to win, you are probably using him. Honorable mentions are Bo Rai Cho(Fat Dude with the stick, broken since MKDA; how they f’ed him up 2 releases in a row is beyond my thinking power.) Noob_Smoke just break the game’s engine itself; the mear creation of that character shouls have told them the game’s engine needed fine-tuning. Other characters have some stupid shit but Darriou is just stupid dumb big, his god tier status rooms got rooms.

Tomb Stone Drop. Combo setups out the ass crack.

[Tech_Romancer]

I expected #R Eddie. Not Slash Eddie.

I thought Slash Eddie was supposed to be pretty weak compared to his other versions?

[rogueyoshi]

Eddie from Guilty Gear XX: Slash is pretty crazy too.

slash eddie, tho?

[Shytagaki]

You have an awkward way of asking for strange things. How can something be broken and competitive at the same time? It was either DOAU or DOA4 but Tengu was a cheap character when use-able online.

Too bad the entire cast of DOA was broken as shit.

[d3v]

Just go with the safe bets like Nakoruru in CvS1, Akuma in ST (and maybe even HDR). Maj’s article on balance over at Sonic Hurricane is a good place to start.

[Hecatom]

Eddie from Guilty Gear XX: Slash is pretty crazy too.

Eddie is low tier on GGXX Slash

[Anemone]

Always mixed Slash up with #Reloaded because Reloaded sounds more like a 2nd version.

[tataki]

Petshop is like an Old Old Sagat

[Yin]

Always mixed Slash up with #Reloaded because Reloaded sounds more like a 2nd version.

Well, isn’t it?

XX, #Reload, Slash, Accent Core

[jedpossum]

Petshop is like an Old Old Sagat

More like CE Bison or even WW Guile, but Petshop can still lose. so he isn’t a win button.

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[media=youtube]iuaayiyUiII#t=2m41s[/media]Yes, tournaments do allow him

[Hecatom]

Well, isn’t it?

XX, #Reload, Slash, Accent Core

actually is
XX, #Reload, Isuka, Slash, Accent Core

but i can understand why almost everyone would ignore the game

[NotGood]

You can’t put Carl from Blazblue, he was no where near as broken as the top three in Blazblue.

IDK, I don’t play Blazblue, it’s just having an infinite is the definition of “broken” right?

If being broken means being way better than everyone else, I guess Carl isn’t broken.

But if being broken means having something that isn’t intended by the developers(infinite), then I guess he is.

[tataki]

More like CE Bison or even WW Guile, but Petshop can still lose. so he isn’t a win button.

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[media=youtube]iuaayiyUiII#t=2m41s[/media]Yes, tournaments do allow him

Some characters in the cast do ok against him (dio with knives for example) but some are hopeless. That’s why I compared him to old sagat.

[tenyardmike]

ST Akuma

[Hecatom]

IDK, I don’t play Blazblue, it’s just having an infinite is the definition of “broken” right?

If being broken means being way better than everyone else, I guess Carl isn’t broken.

But if being broken means having something that isn’t intended by the developers(infinite), then I guess he is.

deadfrog posted something about the subject awhile ago

Most broken FG character

Having an infinite or a full-kill combo does not necessarily mean that a character is broken, even if it’s easy to execute, and even if it’s practical to (set up and) land.

This is an application of the difference between something being truly broken and something just being really powerful. There are huge leaps in game (un)balance between things like having having a powerful option, having many powerful options, having many dominant options, having a nearly unbeatable set of options, having a truly undefeatable set of options, and having one single completely undefeatable option.

A lot of players, myself included, toss around the word “broken” in a figurative sense liberally and often, much in the same way we like to use the word “cheap” as well. I guess they would be dysphemisms and we do it because it’s fun; it’s like having little facetious jokes built right into our slang/jargon/vernacular. However, I think it leads to a lot of confusion among players who are new to the scene.

When a new player hears you say something is cheap, he might think you mean you think it shouldn’t be allowed or something, when really what you mean is more along the lines of “Ahhhh this shit is too funny, I am probably going to do it over and over again as much as possible in the tournament this weekend.” When a new player hears you say something is broken, he might think you mean that it ruins the game, when you really what you mean is more along the lines of “Ahahaha this shit is AMAZING, I am DEFINITELY going to do this over and over as much as possible in the tournament this weekend.”

It’s probably also important to mention though that there will always be a spread of opinions on exactly where true brokenness actually begins. The most solid criteria/definition that I think we have for real broken is that it makes a game not worth playing anymore, and that is a monstrously subjective thing even for hardcore competitive players. I think this vagueness is somewhat accepted in the sense that most of us acknowledge that there are varying degrees of brokenness.

[thats_mind_games]

metaknight from super smash bros brawl

[The_MC_Clusky]

To clear some things up:

What I mean by competitive is that it was built for tournament play, instead of being a cheap cash in for blood and gore (so stuff like primal rage, Killer instinct, clay fighters is out).

The same goes for games that may have been good, but never really had a big scene (like Eternal Champions or Mortal Kombat, and don’t get mad about Mortal Kombat, everyone knows that it will never reach Evo Status although MK9 may change that).

So yeah, characters like Sentinel, Bison CE, etc are all along the lines of what I’m refering to.

And yeah I think Metaknight could make the list… even though I despise Brawl.

[RX78Mike]

World Warrior Guile

[DivineChaos97]

SC4 Hilde