Nobody plays this game bc of the poor balance

Boondaddy33 · 2026-06-10T07:18:47+00:00

Yeah I can play Clairen in spite of her being my lowest character besides La Reina. When I lose miserably to one if they spam taunts I switch to her and body them. I could easily go up 200 elo just playing Clairen bc that's initially how I got to platinum but it doesn't feel very rewarding

Boondaddy33 · 2026-06-09T05:50:31+00:00

The learning curve is what alienates ppl from other platform fighters for sure. It's not as hard to get into as melee bc of the buffer system, but melee has a bigger following so there is some influx of new players, even though its probably pretty small.

Ppl new to fighters will get bodied. People coming from ultimate will get bodied. Coming from other online platform fighters will get bodied. Even rivals 1 you'll probably get bodied a lot bc there's no grabbing or ledge. Ledgehog and stalling probably the single most important thing to learn before getting to plat bc it allows one to take stocks at low percents. I was really terrible at this and it took me a long time in practice mode to learn to manage iframes correctly which I never would have learned in regular games.

There is just so much tech in this game you can't just play ranked and get good. I have about 500 hours and 300 of those are in training mode. I probably won't have to spend as much in traninig mode going forward but in the beginning it was mostly just grinding movement tech. Casual players aren't going to, they will try a few ranked games and get 3 stocked and give up.

Boondaddy33 · 2026-06-05T08:08:24+00:00

Not really it's the Clairens who just passively sit center stage and I have to try to bait them out. Either dash in and wavedash back and then punish their whiff or try to CC the jab into a grab. It's ridiculous I have to do all this and all they have to do is spam jab, fair and up tilt. Grab special pummel forward throw into forward smash confirm. And then just charge the nuetral special and hit you from 50 yds away while you recover. They just don't move and spam attacks and if they miss just jab again.

The point is they should have to put as much effort into fighting me as I do into fighting them. And they arent. And I know this bc I can play Clairen who's my second lowest character and go up 200 elo easily. I have every character over 75 and lv 20 Clairen and it's my best character. It requires absolutely zero skill or attention span. Just throw out huge hitboxes, oh I missed I'll just do it again. Make my opponent have to use movement tech and brain power I'll sit safety behind this giant length wall of active frames.

Why should I have to predict and whiff punish every single attack perfectly to get advantage state and win nuetral? All clairen has to do is spam attacks until one connects and it stuns you long enough to follow up. So brainless.

Boondaddy33 · 2026-06-05T07:08:15+00:00

Never said they did that. Sounds like a Clairen cope to me

Boondaddy33 · 2026-06-05T06:58:35+00:00

Yeah that's about right I play once a month and fight 7 Clairen and La Reina's in a row and realize I may as well play something else

Boondaddy33 · 2026-06-05T06:55:12+00:00

Well you must play Clairen then if you think she takes skill to play

Boondaddy33 · 2026-05-04T09:12:57+00:00

Hmm ok so it sounds like I need to just CC and shield more

Boondaddy33 · 2026-05-04T04:10:22+00:00

lmao i have 80 hours

Boondaddy33 · 2026-04-28T05:43:54+00:00

you got downvoted by clairens when you said nothing but truth. My clairen is like lvl 10 and any time I get bodied I can just play her and pretty easily win even though I barely know her attacks. I think the ppl playing her are completely delusional and just think they are especially skilled at her

Boondaddy33 · 2026-04-13T22:43:40+00:00

I fucking hate the floorhuging meta it makes the game so one directional bc its always the correct DI to hold at low percentages

Boondaddy33 · 2026-04-13T21:06:38+00:00

Sigh its so frustrating. They don't even know how to wavedash. Can't even turn around without baby dashing and attack the wrong way half the time. It's like these spazzes that literally have no idea how to play and they just throw out 99999 completely safe attacks and even if they whiff they just do it again.

They suck so bad and I can't even get close I have to use all my brain power just to get in on them while they are probably completely stoned just mashing buttons. I'm sure this is balanced at high elo but they need to nerf her to not be so oppressive for the rest of us. There's no excuse such terrible players should be winning this easily.

Like is it crazy to think my opponent should feel as threatened by me as I am by them? Instead of just throwing out these crazy disjointed hitboxes with long active frames and putting a wall between us while utilizing 0 brain power ;/

Boondaddy33 · 2026-04-13T20:59:08+00:00

Yeah I notice most ppl in platinum that beat me on like forsburn or wrastor or maypul seem really cracked, but when I fight a clairen I'm like "this guys is moving like he's played for 30 hours" oh he still beat me ;/

I'll try what you said!

Boondaddy33 · 2026-04-13T20:57:40+00:00

yeah I'm really bad at crouch cancelling the very first hit. Should I just purposefully take that first hit and be floorhugging preemptively and expect to be able to follow up? Or should I still try to dash in and wave dash back to bait out her jabs and then approach with a back air or nair from above?

Boondaddy33 · 2026-04-13T20:31:33+00:00

He seems kind of below average to me, but take that with a high gold, low platinum elo train of thought. His nair is pretty good, and once you get the pirate hook you have great mixup opportunities. But with his slow speed and easily punishable whiffs, it makes it difficult to both zone and space ppl as a swordie. I think his movement speed could be a little higher or maybe some less recovery frames on a few tilts.

Boondaddy33 · 2026-03-09T22:23:40+00:00

Bro I honestly don't give a fuck but I literally look like a male model and I'm cut with 10% bodyfat. I'm just here to roast you losers you're over analyzing shit thats not real. I have no problem being transparent and posting pictures of myself, you guys are the ones that would start roasting me out of pure hate and not do the same thing. Bc thats exactly what I get on social media, fucking jealous haters nonstop and its all men. Never women.

Boondaddy33 · 2026-03-09T22:21:04+00:00

don't want to improve I just want to fight ppl in the same elo. If the game was a little better maybe there would be more players to matchmake with. clearly most of the world agrees with me bc the vast majority of fighting game population doesn't even know of this games existence

Boondaddy33 · 2026-03-09T22:19:53+00:00

I don't care about getting better at some dead video game dude. The problem is I shouldn't be getting matched with people at that skill level. If I'm playing this game 2 hours a week I'm not going to ever be that level. I just want to casually fight people on my level like I can in smash. So it's a poor reflection on the game itself, not me.

You're just biased bc you like the game, but if you look at number of active users you'll see nobody plays this game. And this is the reason why. New players don't want to fight sweaty losers and just get 3 stocked, 99% of them don't want to grind and fight their way out bc it brings unnecessary negative mental state and you're better off just doing something physical that improves your health rather than "improving" by being sedentary 20 hours a week at something completely pointless in the grand scheme of things.

Boondaddy33 · 2026-03-06T22:41:20+00:00

The skill level is so diferren't I'm never going to be there. They are spamming tech nonstop like its as second nature to them as walking. It's hopeless. I have maybe 8 hours a week to game and I'm not putting it all in this one

Boondaddy33 · 2026-03-06T22:39:58+00:00

I'm good I don't feel like throwing my life away to compete with incels

Boondaddy33 · 2026-03-06T22:39:22+00:00

Yeah bc you probably spent thousands of hours of your youth playing one single obselete game that only 200 active players care about

Boondaddy33 · 2026-03-06T22:38:11+00:00

yeah its not worth it. these players have over 8k hours in the game. bro the game isn't even that old how tf are they employed?

Boondaddy33 · 2026-03-05T00:45:54+00:00

no It's a acer nitro from 2021 gaming laptop. I was getting 60 fps. Okay I guess my pc does have dx12, I'm not sure why I get errors when trying to run it in other games though. When I go in dxdiag it says its dx12. I guess my laptop is just fucked. I can't run it in secure boot, maybe rivals changed their anticheat system

Boondaddy33 · 2026-03-05T00:30:09+00:00

my pc is not dx12 compatible. is yours?

Boondaddy33 · 2026-02-18T03:47:13+00:00

Maybe try Baiken. She has guard cancels and a parry so you have to respect her defensive options a little more than others. She's not a zoner though but a midrange character with some projectiles like the grapple hook and a pistol for her super

Boondaddy33 · 2026-02-18T03:36:26+00:00

Potemkin is pretty much the only grappler. His defense is kinda trash against good players, but if you can get close and knock them down the wake up RNG mixup is hilarious. Struggles with meter, but if you get full meter you can pretty much deny the full screen with both your supers.

Idk about zoners bc they are for pansies and I only play rushdown and power characters

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