shoto cr. forward = no more empty DR shenanigans. it’d be nice if it had instant recovery, it’s not hard to tech a throw in that situation.
now, EX armor helps Rog get in a good deal and i wonder if you guys think that would be suitable for Bison. I don’t think having it would put Bison at any more of an advantage than Rog, but it could change Bison up a bit depending on the move it was put on.
For EX PC that’d mean it would be invincible to normal projectiles and you could actually use it with some certainty whereas now the timing is so weird that its hard to consistently pass through fireballs. This would also solve the problem of people jumping back and being able to actually combo off a psychocrusher (wtf capcom). I could live with the PC we have now if we got a buffed Ex version.
For DR or something that would mean that you’re actually a threat flying around up there. I see it being practical since it would keep you from getting swatted out of the air when starting up DR while you only get armor on the punch if you use the EX devil’s reverse punch. If they do swat you, you still have a chance to hit with it. For HS, it would mean normals would no longer beat it since you’d absorb and stomp, forcing people to block. Not OP in my opinion since people already either block it or beat you air-to-air or use cr. fierce to beat it and I don’t think any of us think a normal should beat EX headstomp, so they’ll just have to stick to blocking and
If you got it with EX scissors that’d be cool if, like Rog, you could continue to combo afterwards. nothing too big, just something that starts with cr.lk which you can use with strict timing to get a cr.mk xx scissors into the combo (cr.lk, st.lk, cr. mk xx scissors). You can remove the ability to combo into ex scissors from cr.lk, its rarely done anyways so you dont have EX attack loops.
Armor on EX skulldiver would be pretty cool and useful so they can’t just poke you out of the air after a headstomp. Unless they change the move properties its pretty useless at this point since you can beat it just as easily as a headstomp.
EX scissors would see more use if it had armor, but for now I like it as is. The only buff I could see that won’t be OP is to give you the ability to combo afterwards or keep pressure. The rewarding for hitting with EX could be a close, non-knockdown attack with lots of hit stun. You can maybe combo after with strict timing (i.e. your fastest normal to start it which doesn’t exactly lead to huge damage). This would bring some of the old SF2 Bison back without giving him this ability on normal scissors.
what are the opinions around here regarding EX armor for any of Bison’s moves?
