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Pfft, Lei Fang is the Scarlet Witch, and can not only recreate reality... she can straight up punch parry it too, to the point where no one can actually say her name correctly. This makes her canonically top tier, of course. I also give huge canonical tier powers to people who, say, own giant...

Pfft, canon. Everyone knows in canon that Lei Fang has the ability to derail trains with her mind in order to create perfectly constructed scenarios with sexual tension. Reality control!

Love this format for smaller tournaments.

That's fair, and with Gen it's pretty exaggerated in particular because his reward is pretty bonkers. But people generally still get a keep momentum in similar ways. If you get that stun, the reward goes way up in your favor, and every character has a very good means of getting that from the...

If the generic risk for a hold was anything like a dragon punch, that's be one thing. But it's nowhere close. And whereas in a 2D responding specifically to a DP means just losing pressure, responding to holds in DOA can mean *also* getting blown up for most of the health bar. The rewards to the...

I'd like to think I'm above the whole thing where I personally attack someone for their beliefs in the way that "theory fighter" is a slur. At the same time I understand it, because most of the knowledge about gameplay is subjective rather than objective; one learns how to play a game at a level...

See, I wish there was real evidence. The problem is, the analysis of actual matches of players involves a very subjective notion about "this player's skill is about equal to this player's skill", and is insanely arbitrary, being honest. (It's more vibe than fact) So it's very hard to produce...

It's funny, too. I've been playing Bayman recently. Talk about a character who is forced to block against some of these people in a lot of the matches. But I'm still favoring evenness generally. The thing is that in a lot of HLP I see, good players know how to force a mind game. Generally...

Yeah, admitted laziness on many player's parts, including mine. Only reason I think many haven't is that, frankly, a lot of good players I know are ideologically committed to the idea that match ups are more even than not. That's both in the case of genuine belief (the universal mechanisms in...

Will do! Should be a fun project.

Man, the Sarah hate is so real! Seriously, I'm going to sit down with Hayabusa sometime and just work out his anti-Sarah tech. I swear it must exist. It's true that he doesn't have one of those obvious tools against her that makes the reads pretty easy, even though he can Izuna drop her out of...

Yeah, 3PP is an insanely good reward for the amount of guessing it requires, and worse because getting someone on the opposite read is probably even worse. Fun stuff. He's not broken per se, but ridiculously strong.

That's fair. She's got some unique tools around him, I think Christie does too, and you can say that certain ranged-emphasized characters can do a range of things he doesn't. I've heard of some other interesting counterpicks, too. In the end, though, it doesn't take much to get tossed into the...

Even this, he wins. She avoids more things and gets around him in neutral, but he's disproportionately rewarded for the reads he gets right. At best, it's even. At worse, he's still rolling her like everyone else. That said, I want to say that EH feature is actually pretty neat, all in all. I...

Yeah, that was kinda me covering all bases. Neutral, then. Alone, a move like WRK4K, 66K, etc. would be telegraphed. But I feel he's got a *lot* of moves that are like that, enough that even when, say, Hayabusa is crouching at R1F, I'm not *exactly* sure what he's going to do. (With Tina, it's...

I really can't respond to this line to line. I agree regarding the teleport moves in general (you have to set those up to make them worth your while in a particular way), but I think that a lot of those moves are more potent in stun than anything Tina has; they free cancel well and have set ups...

I dunno, I don't think of Busa as being that telegraphed. If we're talking characters who are telegraphed but who don't have any of that other stuff, I think of Leon. Who is, well, not as good as she is.

Honestly, I find most of that stuff pretty telegraphed. Especially H3P, which is made problematic by the existence of both 33P and 3P. The OHs are fine, the throw punishment is good, the safety is alright. But she gets outpoked badly and rushed pretty hard for the most part, and her mix up...

Because she has serious issues in neutral, has a pretty mediocre mix up, and relies on hold punishment to really tie her game together. (Or just random throw stuff, which can be done by anyone and almost as well) Most people come around to her approaching her with that mindset and leave her...