Hi.
I’d like to know about the really severe nerfs given out in fighting games. Characters are toned down all the time, but it’s the really ridiculous and extreme cases I’m interested in. What I’m curious about are characters that, between two (maybe three) games, were hit with the hammer of god and dropped to the lowest part of the bottom tier.
People like to mention how bad Sean got between Second Impact and Third Strike, so I figured that there has to be other instances like this.
Kirby, Ness and Pika from SSB to Melee for sure.
Strider - MvC1 > MvC2
Robo-Ky and Dizzy from #Reload to Slash, without a doubt.
co-sign!
More of a progression of the game instead of a direct sequal, but DJ got outright fucked between the PS1 release of A3 and the PS2 release of A3/Hyper.
Goodbye Maxout-tick-Maxout-tick-Maxout…
My votes…
2ndImpact Sean to 3rdStrike Sean
Champion Edition M. Bison to Turbo M. Bison
Tekken4 Jin to Tekken 5 Jin
just a few who come to mind.
Sakura from CvS2 to CFJ/E.
Capcom characters from pre/MvC to MvC2.
Akuma/Ibuki 2I to 3S.
Eddie from #R to /.
Umm, I’ll come back later when I think of more…
5.0 Steve > DR Steve
O. Sagat on Anthology. Alex 2nd to Alex 3rd.
That makes me happy.
Alpha 1 Guy - Alpha 2 Guy
Yuki from LB1 to LB2.
She got nerfed ‘hard’.
I totally agree
Shotos Prior 2 Mvc2 
Man Robo-Ky didn’t get nerfed he got fucking violated. They took the clothes off his metal back and kicked his ass into the streets. Most of the nerfs don’t even make sense.
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Ryu was shitty in MvcC1.
same reason why capcom made sean shitty in 3s
the developers didn’t want a joke character near top tier
It doesn’t have to be from one game to the sequel, right?
In that case, Yun got hit from Third Strike to CvS2. No Genei-Jin, he just didn’t feel as fluid, but at least they gave him some good supers to try to make up for it.
Pikachu, Ness, and Kirby definitely lost a lot. Throws were one of Ness’s strong points, and since Melee toned them down, Ness lost one of his best choices for K.O.ing people. Kirby’s attacks pretty much all became damage dealers, and only his smashes could beat someone, unless someone actually fell for his air b-down.
ibuki 2I -> 3s
>:(((((((((((
oh and rose a2 -> a3