MasterHavik
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Fuck yeah he is. I trust Kat giving me cosplay advice though.
doa5u impressions thread
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Pokerking87
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Janns 4pp after Mid p hold seems nerfed.
Darth Lotonic X
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Technically a nerf, but Jann Lee can do what he wants after that hold.
On another note, am I the only person who really likes the new Power Launchers. They seem a million times more useful than Power Blows.
Zeo
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Explain, please. I really want to hear this.
MasterHavik
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maybe if this was in tekken and SC I'll see your point, but DOA......HELL NO!
Darth Lotonic X
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The only times power blows are actually useful are for silly bait attempts and stage interactions. After a CB!, most characters in this game can do more damage with a actual combo than they would with their power blow. Power Launchers give every character a ceiling attack (in theory) and open up a lot of juggle potential.
Darth Lotonic X
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Every character but Kokoro, I believe. I have tested this.
Power Launchers will be used almost exclusively after damage is optimized. You just get more damage. The issue right now is the timing is much harder than you'd think for the juggle. If you look at the beginning of the stream you'll see a bunch of us trying and failing Power Launcher combos over and over with every character that was tried. It's trickier than you'd think.
synce
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PL is definitely better than PB. If you want an example straight from DOA5, you can go the Lisa forum and look for the max juggle off her low OH. The height is same as PL and allows for bigger combo than any of her launchers. The timing's not that hard, I was laughing my ass off at all the fail on the stream, even TN struggles with it.
TRI Mike
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PL will be better depending on the character's ability to juggle for big damage. I think characters like Kasumi, Jann, Fang and others will benefit from them but for example Tina who usually just lands a couple hits or goes for an air grab (same to Busa, Leon, Bass and others) will see the use of PB more useful..
Zeo
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Power blows specifically give stage bonuses on certain stages that allow followups for continued damage, then there are situational tools like pillars for sit down stuns for even more followups and walls for extended damage. Plus there's virtually 0 chance of you missing the followup and losing damage.
The power launcher in retrospect doesn't look like the possible 10 or so more bonus damage making up for the huge risk you're taking using it and possibly dropping your combo. I can only see the launcher being a better option when there is a ceiling, no objects in the area that your opponent can be smashed into for a sit down stun and no special electric walls for your opponent to bounce off of.
And of course power launcher's usefulness will vary depending on the character's juggle potential. Like Akira for example... Knee > Knee > Knee > Knee > Knee... oh I'm getting excited just thinking about it...
Jesus I noticed that. See.. that's why I just do 346P after I mid punch hold, looks like that's going to be the optimum thing to do once again.
It looked like it. It'll probably end up being the "pro" thing to do later on in the game's life but most people will probably be going for power blows for a good while.
even with that insane launch height i cant see Bayman doing a big enough juggle to make it worth it
In a tournament unless I have my juggle down to a science I'm doing a power blow so I know I'm getting my damage. Unless my combo just blows the power blow out of the water. Don't wanna risk dropping it
Darth Lotonic X
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That was my jan lee in the video by the way lol. Yeah and I always used 4p because it gave a sit down and had many options. Ill probably just use 46p now
David Gregg
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I'm sure this has already been brought up but can anyone confirm that PL's are only useful when charged? Is there any possibility that if you reached the CT and you tried the PL that there is a chance for follow up damage? Environment/ceiling included.
I can't wait to test out Helena and Pai-Chan!