A bottom tier/obscure is deemed a waste of a slot. For instance, Hakan being A bottom tier character despite the he is not intended to be useless. Or how people think Rocket Raccoon shouldn’t be in UMVC3 if he sucks.
Character’s worthy of being a roster is not based on their viability. It’s based on what they do in the game, and contribute to the game’s mechanic. A character like Hakan is in the game because he meant to change style of how to play a grapple. He is in because Capcom wanted to design a grappler unlike their previous characters.
Banning shit for some of the most asinine reasoning, for instance banning Metaknight because he wins too many tournament. Or if he counters your favorite character.
Low/High Health =Balanced character. It’s like fighting game developers doen’t realize that their glass canon character have tools that make it impossible for them to EVER make mistake if they were played by a skillful player. Now a game’s value isn’t based on balance, it’s based on smart design. I don’t believe glass canon archetype is a smart design unless it’s a extreme of extremes. Go ask Zero, Karas, Yun, Phoenix, etc.
A nut shell, just listen to Mike Z’s approach on the matter.
Again I don’t care if a game is balance, but for fuck sakes health doesn’t balance it.
The fact that I still find gold nuggets of information or productive, game play improving suggestions and videos which FORCES me to continue to come here to deal with number 1. MAKE UP YOUR MIND WHETHER YOU ARE GOING TO BE GOOD OR BAD, DAMNIT!
I send people that, but only if I actually did have a good game with them. I never get a response, I wonder if it’s because they think I mean it in a derogatory sense rather than actually saying I thought it was a good game.
The smash bandwagon hate here, it’s childish and juvenile, middle school shit. You can tell these are the type of people with no balls who could never stand up for their own point of view. I’m not even really a smash player, I just got into melee very recently, and seeing the shit people post here is just sad. If you’re gonna be a retard and talk shit about things you don’t understand, just don’t waste your time typing that crap. Quit acting like a damn 12 year old just because you’re on the internet.
There seems to be a stigma against good characters in fighters, in spite of that, scrubs make all these insane wishlists that would make their character OP.
Balancing characters based on health is just stupid, i.e this character has great mix ups and damage, so we’ll just nerf his health to compensate. Why don’t you just weaken the damage and mixups instead? That’s just lazy.
Yea been thinking this for awile. From a Strong, or Top player’s point of view, Low health, or health nerfs are not a much of a big factor if the character still has great superior tools to be succussful in most matchups.
People who use any excuse to bring up Smash on SRK and blindly feel the need to defend every single word, crying about it like the 12 year old they accuse others to be whilst simultaneously trying to emasculate anyone who doesn’t like or play ‘their’ game.
i dont know, i find the diferences in health as a very legit way to balance a character, its all about the balance between weakness and strenghts, does it works all the times? not really but its one of that things that adds variety to the games, the health its suposed to mimick the stamina, resistance to pain and endurnce of the fighter
imo the real problem is not about having health differences but how some companies (namely capcom) use the health nerfs instead of revisiting the chars and its tools
btw phoenix is mean to be like what she is, viscant explined well the idea behind her character desing
What grinds my gears is when people say it like its the only reason they are losing, and calling a character auto pilot is a stupid term, if its truly auto piloting you just need to read the manual and you would never lose. Give respect to the player using the characters best tools. And I know she isn’t the only one given this term.