Don't bother Eckhart. Helena is the best character in the game.
I don't think people are saying she is stupidly good, I think people are saying that she is not as bad as the Helena community makes her sound sometimes.
If people say she doesn't need any buff's then they cannot complain about people asking for Jann Lee to be nerfed because if Helena as a character is what a character should be then a lot of the characters are way to good and need to be nerfed down to her level.
To anyone who feels the need to pull me up on this:
NO CHARACTER in this game is bad. Every character can win but some characters simply have better tools that are much easier to use and have a much larger pay off. Tools like Busa's huge array of guard crushes are only beatable by countering correctly and that is it, blocking, attacking or side stepping fail against them. This makes them great tools which have a purpose in his game play. There are multiple ways to pokes holes in almost everything Helena does, this is what makes her tools weak by comparison.
Here is an example: Helena's 3in1's, which her movelist heavily focuses on.
These moves are highly telegraphed, so how do you deal with them?
+ Block and punish her with an attack that comes out in under 15 frames.
+ Counter them.
+ Side step them.
This is what makes her tools weak in comparison to say Busa's guard crushes, there is just too many ways to deal with them. You don't have to make an educated read as to whether they are coming or not, they simply pose not threat to a blocking opponent. If she is meant to use these a lot (which based on how many she has I would assume TN wanted it that way) then make them more threatening. Make it so people feel the need to gamble and counter them so she has someone kind of mind game she can play. Right now she is just hollow gimmicks. I wouldn't make them guard crush that would be too much, but maybe make them +2 so she has some way of pressuring her opponent.
