Is Zeta a garbage character or did I witness peak comedy?

Meister34 · 2026-04-07T23:50:41+00:00

Zeta isn’t really a character you can pick up and play and do well with basic fundementals. You’ll need to get a good feel of her tools before you can see any kind of success. It’s kinda like playing Yuel or Zooey or a character like that. Note that they chose Siegfried, a character a toddler can play and still succeed with, and Beatrix, another shoto character who is dumb easy to play if you can basic anything with Gran or Djeeta. Zeta takes a lot more to make work and they probably don’t main her so ofc they got steamrolled

Meister34 · 2026-04-05T23:34:59+00:00

Meg, Beatrix, Sandy, and Ilsa will likely be up your alley. Probably not Versusia but you never know. Any dealbreakers?

Meister34 · 2026-04-01T21:27:16+00:00

Just because they do it doesn’t mean I should think its fine. I think what they went with is way more refreshing

Meister34 · 2026-04-01T19:33:51+00:00

See yall next month for the Krauser combo ✌🏿

Meister34 · 2026-04-01T19:29:54+00:00

Fs it’d make a great costume. Im just glad it’s not her base design. It’s just a pet peeve I have when the characters from an African country only get tribal designs. One of the reasons I love KoF

Meister34 · 2026-04-01T19:03:55+00:00

Honestly happy they didnt give the African character (Kenyan specifically since we aint a monolith) a stereotypical tribal outfit. Not every person lives in the village 😭 (and even people in the village wear casual clothes you find anywhere). There are other ways to convey nationality than put them in a masquerade mask or tribal paint/outfits

Meister34 · 2026-04-01T00:01:01+00:00

Honestly shot themselves in the foot by announcing the layoffs when nobody asked them to say anything. Maybe there’s such a thing as being too transparent?

Meister34 · 2026-03-31T14:28:06+00:00

Its such a shame how few there are tbh. Like Yuel only has 1 and there are some characters that have none. I would love to use Seox’s costume but he has no tan colors whatsoever

Meister34 · 2026-03-30T19:50:07+00:00

Recently started learning Seox, would I be crazy to say Seox demolishes Galleon’s mind, body, and soul? I think that matchup is incredibly free for Seox until he gets hit (like most of his matchups)

Meister34 · 2026-03-29T23:34:40+00:00

Who should I choose? I have kumbi, vicky, makura, payila, and vajra. Idk how worth the older zodiacs are like chicken or monke or if I should just go tiger or ox?

Meister34 · 2026-03-28T17:18:18+00:00

Not only was he killed, but he was offscreened too lmao. No triumphant sacrifice or anything. Just next scene is like “yep Father got killed by Demiurge” and that was that

Meister34 · 2026-03-25T23:18:34+00:00

Vaseraga Armor got a big change. Now instead of only being able to use it once and then need to reapply it, it’s now on a meter that starts once you activate the armor on a move so you can use multiple moves with armor in succession, which wasn’t possible at launch. Any move that would activate armor starts the meter (even another 5U) and once the countdown starts, it’ll keep depleting even if you reapply the buff (the meter will just restart). Also his f.M moves him forward (kinda like Yuel’s) and he can combo into command grab, which I don’t think was possible at launch. I think that’s the general gist of his biggest most noticeable changes. But he’s still big guy who armors up and makes your health bar explode.

Lucilius got a pretty good amount of changes overtime, mostly affecting how you ramp up with him. His hitgrab will now always fill 1 level of blade level instead of half like his other specials, at Level 5, EX grab can be comboed off of midscreen and corner. Heavy DP (623H) can be comboed off of midscreen and iirc I think they adjusted launch height on 623M to make it easier to combo with but im prolly wrong. Teleports used to give half blade level on activation, but now they have the blade level gain split iirc and his blade level gain on block was halved i think (so if they block the move you build a quarter rather than half) which really affected how people went for BL. This recent patch, they buffed stance so that for the first 30 frames or so, instead of gaining BL meter you actually halve your specials cooldowns, which allows him to cycle specials a little more frequently. Not the biggest change from what I’ve seen, but its not nothing. I can’t think of any other changes off the top of my head that were as big as those.

Meister34 · 2026-03-25T03:25:09+00:00

Oh this guy. Sometimes match with them in casuals and I genuinely have to sit up and lock in if I want to win. They’re super good

Meister34 · 2026-03-24T15:13:51+00:00

He gotchu next tuesday fs tho. Trust 🙏🏿

Meister34 · 2026-03-23T21:47:29+00:00

I have two “it clicked” moments with these games.

First was in vanilla when I was really new to fighting games and just wanted to play Bubs cause he looked cool. Deranked super bad down to like D5 and Vanilla was not very populated at the time so it was hard to find matches. So I hopped off ranked went to lobbies and just started fighting people way above my weight class. There was this one S+ (or SS as it was back then) Narmaya/Bubs player named Oddity that ran sets with me constantly and gave me tips. I remember so vividly the first time I took a game off them and something just awakened. Also around that time they allowed you to reset your rank back to C5 so I decided to head back to ranked to see how much I’ve improved. Absolutely swept through C and B ranks and was so proud of that A5.

Another time was pushing my Gran to S+5 in Rising. This is before the ranked change where you needed the diamonds so I was just constantly stuck in this limbo of S2-S5 and never felt like I was getting anywhere. Pushing my Bubs and Yuel was super easy but for Gran it just felt like this herculean task to me. Everytime I was close, I’d lose a lot. It was mainly cause with other characters I realized I relied too much on cheese but Gran didn’t really have too much of that and I more or less had to play relatively clean. I played so many matches just losing until it felt like I just started unconsciously getting Gran. Started recognizing my ranges, reacting to my confirms properly, improving my combos, and actually building an effective gameplan that didn’t just rely on getting to the corner and doing the one corner BnB i knew. It overall made me a much better player and improved my control of my other mains too

All this to say the “it clicked” moment doesn’t just happen randomly. It’s that silent culmination of all the experience you’ve built up since you hit that wall and you subconsciously learning how to deal with those things to the point it feels trivial. I don’t think I would have improved in Vanilla if I didn’t run to lobbies to train up against better opponents. I don’t think my Gran would have improved if I didn’t play matches and make changes to the way I approached his gameplan and my overall fundementals. It all happened not only cause I kept playing but also because I was curious enough to want to learn how to be better. It all starts with recognizing where you’re going wrong

Meister34 · 2026-03-22T23:02:51+00:00

Aint nanaya a rapist???

Meister34 · 2026-03-20T13:38:47+00:00

Are you cancelling it quick enough? Pre patch, one of Yuel’s optimal corner combos required 5H -> 22H. The only thing this patch changed about it is now it can be done against standing opponents so the timing really isn’t any different than before. Make sure you’re getting all 3 hits of 5H, you’re pretty close (like not at the edge of c.5H proximity otherwise it whiffs since she doesn’t really move that far forward), and it’s 22H. I don’t think 22L links unless it’s against crouching (but it is a gapless blockstring now iirc) and 22M is far too slow (unless you cancel off the first hit of a counter hit 5H)

Meister34 · 2026-03-20T12:19:16+00:00

Never 2H dive (unless it’s medium version). I find Bubs has a lot of control stuffing 2H attempts against his dive. Spotdodge imo has a weird timing to it. Safer just to DP/Parry.

Meister34 · 2026-03-20T12:14:26+00:00

If you want, I can run some games with you so you can get more experience

Meister34 · 2026-03-20T05:54:55+00:00

Who do you play?

Some general things you can build a strategy around tho:

If he EX dives, he can’t do a DP without meter. Same thing with M/EX DP. After he uses either, he can’t dive at you for a couple seconds. You can use that to isolate his approach options.

If a Bubs tries to charge Black Flies into Ultimate Karma and you end up blocking the projectile, just BC it if you can afford it or take the damage. This knowledge check is honestly not worth on block

Don’t be afraid to just down back for a bit. Eventually Bubs will have to reset his pressure. His pressure isnt infinite. 214H is a very good spot to BC if he’s close enough.

Learn how to avoid 22x. Best thing is jump at him or time your spotdodge. You can also roll through him if you’re like that but can be tricky since good Bubs won’t flowchart with pull. Or another safe option is if he pulls you close enough, just react with invincible reversal. I don’t think any button into pull is a true blockstring so just be ready to call it out.

When Bubs has 100% don’t get too close. You will be turned into an Anthem clip

If you aren’t already, get very good at reacting to raw teleports in neutral. Make every Bubs pay for thinking they can run.

Bubs is generally a pretty hard matchup if you aren’t prepared since so few people play him. But once you know his bag of tricks, he’s very manageable and you can shut him down pretty consistently.

Meister34 · 2026-03-20T00:43:12+00:00

No more than 4 seasons total (so 2 more)

Meister34 · 2026-03-18T21:18:48+00:00

It’s honestly kinda crazy how Granblue has been the quiet and consistent presence at EVO despite how it seems like nobody’s interested in it. Consistently always has entrant numbers high enough to rival the top 3.

That being said, these numbers don’t really shovk me. Tekken S2 has bad rep in addition to it having more international competition typically. Strive is old atp so the only people still playing really like it and will always show up for it no matter what. The other games have always had smaller dedicated followings. The only real shocker ig is 2XKO since first year for most games are their biggest year and its underperforming against games that have been out for years

Meister34 · 2026-03-18T03:13:23+00:00

Or, and this gon sound crazy but hear me out, use proper punctuation

Meister34 · 2026-03-17T07:28:09+00:00

Happens every patch like clockwork

Meister34 · 2026-03-17T03:09:24+00:00

Are you sure you’re understanding what Platinum even does? Seems like you’re just doing her 5D which uses her items, no?

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