The Next Big Thing: Abigail General Thread

Really like his Battle outfit more I look at him.
I take back negativity

Capcom could’ve easily used this design and make a whole new character instead of ruining Abigail

they made Abigail white, i thought he was originally black?

Will probably get a palette referring to that…maybe

I’m also desperate to know if fast, multihitting moves like Rashid’s spinning mixer can just completely stuff the startup of the strike portion of his parry or if it’s a true counter.

Why do people keep calling it a parry? The blog post makes it sound like a straight up counter, and from the trailer, we can see that he attacks automatically upon landing it, so it isn’t a parry with manual followup like Akuma.

It doesn’t have the same special animations as Kolin’s V-Skill or special move parries, so I’m concerned that it doesn’t work like a true counter.

1100… feels like he should have gotten more, and only 1050 stun? Same as Alex? Kinda whack.

1100 health 1050 stun is good. Means they’re still balancing him around the normalized health and stun values in this game. Means he might not be too terrible and isn’t just designed to be a huge meat shield destined to be lower tier. Abigail players will have to learn how to block and not completely defend with their face.

If he had 1100 health and 1100 stun I’d feel a lot better.

Eh you’ll live.

I can’t wait for him. He looks so god damn fun to play, it’s ridiculous… I’m looking forward to throwing Zangief around like a rag doll.

V-Skill and Trigger descriptions from google translate of http://www.capcom.co.jp/sfv/chara_abigail.html

V-Skill being described like a counter:

“【Hanger Gabby】
V skill to catch and attack the opponent’s attack with a strong breastplate.
If you do not get attacked, it will not repel, so let 's aim for a good timing.
It is possible to catch a standing attack and a jump attack at Hungarby · High, and a crouching attack at Hangabi · Law.”

V-Trigger, Interesting part is that it implies he just gets a raw damage boost:

“【Max Power】
The body becomes red and the attack power is improved! Partial attacks can be further strengthened by accumulating, guard breaking and armor effect, so you can give pressure to hard guard guys”

What the fuck? They released this artwork and then decided to make him look completely different? Capcom are a fucking joke.

The art and actual character designs are different for a lot of the cast. Nothing new.

Finally a character that can deal with the hard guard guys

Huh, his hair is in the shape of a maple leaf. Cool little detail at least.

https://media.8ch.net/file_store/a1fbaad48566e13532d5fb33ea20defc9c0aa604d08f5b34df6e2f595199d0b1.png

Abigail seems over the top and or gimmicky. So is he supposed to be a “boss” type character and are we still getting Gill for the final boss of SFV? Gill seems like a more correct and accurate choice for the story to make sense and help close the confusing gap between sf4 and sf3. And with this huge new character are we going to get others that can go up against him like Hugu, Sagat and or Haggar? Will we see other final fight people return and make an appearance like Sodom, Guy, Cody?

I was confused on that as well.