Free Step Dodge

Yeah the sneak ones. Kasumi, Phase-4 etc. It's not even a move that actually crushes high, it's their hurtbox that sneak under jabs. Especially vs big characters.

They'll never fix that unfortunately since TN's balance team is heavily mediocre.

Daaamn I didn't know that! Not surprising at all LOL.......

I've always consider TN "rookies" when it comes to balancing.

The biggest BS is giving the fastest jabbers the fastest mids as well along with reset throws. Doa is a broken mess.

Yeah, Kasumi gets a lot of preferential treatment (4P and even 6P "crushing" jabs...) and of course Phase-4 inherits her hitboxes & hurtboxes. Eh, TN's always been kinda like this with balancing. Remember the Itagaki way? "A wrestler should never beat a ninja".

yeah, that Kasumi 4p is some annoying horseshit

Coming from a NiCO main, NiCO shouldn't be a 9 framer

"Are you fast? Well you're in luck, because you're also getting the best lows!"
-Wai... wha?

If a character is fast it should be fast at everything: jabs, mids, kicks and throws. It doesn't make sense to be speed tier but have slower throws than slower strikers. Give fast characters the speed advantage at everything but nerf their damage. Likewise, slow strikers (like grapplers) should have slower throws as well but with bigger damage, on combos and throws, when they get their chance.

It's about consistency, you can't strike fast and throw slow and vice versa; or have fast jabs and slow mids. It amuses me when I see comments about Eliot's speed; Eliot is NOT a fast character just because he has and i10 jab, his mids are complete garbage, I think the worst mids in the game. How tf does he have an i10 jab and i14-15 mids, makes no sense.

And the female characters should all be low tier, slower, low damage characters compared to males.

Or we could have a balanced game where 9i jabs don't exist.

If there are to be i9 jabs in the game, they should be reserved for the male characters. I don't know where this idea comes from, that females should be faster than males in a fighting game.

The fuck does gender have to do with anything?

Uhm...because males are faster than females? If gender doesn't have anything to do with speed, why are the females made the faster characters?

We're talking about a video game where people are fucking teleporting....who gives a shit about realities of gender differences. That's not how you balance a fighting game.

So your idea of balance is to make everyone the same speed? TN clearly took gender into consideration when they assigned a certain speed to a character, even if it's opposite to reality.

If we're following "realistic" analogues, Gen Fu should not be able to get up off the ground after a single KND.
So, careful what you wish for, LOL

His DNA is special, he gets stronger with age, so the older the better, he should be an i9 by now.

So special that DOATEC chooses to clone everyone else.