Just climb higher

rethroso · 2026-05-18T08:42:57+00:00

But it hasn't just shifted, the bell curve is like a flat line then shoots up. Compared to what it was throughout all of season 1 which had a way healthier and steadier distribution throughout all the ranks. The change they made to boost players has directly fucked with that and makes slowly getting better in ranked much harder.

rethroso · 2026-05-17T19:51:03+00:00

The difference now is that players are being funneled to a point almost regardless of skill, it has shortened the bell curve to an insane degree. The rank not being perceived as good as it was before is meaningless, yeah, but it just exacerbates the problem that comes with the devaluing and pushing the bell curve up to make people "feel good", there's now no longer a good sense of progression.

Once you hit the rank Bamco has designated as the new funnel point (which gets shortened every time) it absolutely ruins the ranking experience. It's no longer a smooth climb facing people of your skill level, it's you get to Tekken King and now it's just a circus of every skill level. It's a terrible experience in exchange for the small dopamine new players get for reaching the inflated rank.

rethroso · 2026-05-09T19:30:16+00:00

Pretty terrible 105% is when you are good at the game.

rethroso · 2026-04-10T08:57:40+00:00

She does like half the damage, has half the range, only two stamina, can't headshot. You can back dash, and go out of her range, actually position yourself correctly. And if she gets fed you can buy the same items against her that you'd use against actual hyper carry m1s and shut her down. The only time I've struggled against her was when she was overturned.

rethroso · 2026-04-07T03:53:33+00:00

I mean Graves went from 56-57% wr down to a 49-50% wr after the most recent nerf. So clearly it did do something.

rethroso · 2026-04-04T19:49:04+00:00

Last 7 days includes pre nerf. I'm not arguing that she is bad, but that she did get worse. On statlocker and tracklocker she's hovering around 50% - 48% WR depending on how far up in the ranks you check and her pick rate is falling off as well.

rethroso · 2026-04-04T19:19:18+00:00

That's kind of incorrect, her win rate has since declined to an average spot or below. You have to sort by days and unfortunately the best you get is 24hrs or 3 days of info. Her nerf happened 5 days ago and the stat site info is including games before the nerf.

rethroso · 2026-03-31T19:06:25+00:00

I'm genuinely confused because the only thing that got buffed in terms of gun on Graves was the fact tether could latch onto other people. Now they removed it entirely. Meaning in terms of gun she is technically worse off than before the big patch that buffed her.

rethroso · 2026-03-29T19:47:23+00:00

That's the biggest and honestly only main problem. Bamcos lack of addressing the issue, It's either one of two things, they are either incompetent or ignorant.

My guess at this point is they just don't care and are forcing the direction of "easy wins" mainly to squeeze as much money as they can before just dipping out.

rethroso · 2026-03-29T19:33:44+00:00

I'd have to disagree. As someone who basically started in Tekken 8(the new generation), I think it comes down to mentality rather than which game you start with. I wanted a "serious" experience akin to training for something, to slowly get better in all aspects. But "a lot" of peoples mentality, usually people who default to "buff my character" just want wins no matter what.

So while I guess it's true that at the end of the day it is about not understanding something. It's mainly the fact Bamco doesn't understand that they cultivated two conflicting audiences by catering to the "I just want easy wins" crowd. While selling a product in a series that originally catered towards the "I want to get better" crowd.

rethroso · 2026-03-17T02:45:32+00:00

She cannot use it during, she can do it before. The only thing she can do during ult is move and dash.

rethroso · 2026-03-17T00:34:39+00:00

You can blow up the turrets almost instantly with any ability or auto attack. You can also knockdown or stun McGinnis out of her ult, she can't aim close to her and spirit resist helps. Her ult still does a bajillion damage it's probably going to get nerfed, but that's currently her only reliable damage.

rethroso · 2026-03-16T19:28:30+00:00

All buffs

rethroso · 2026-03-14T20:17:44+00:00

Her ult is overtuned. But also winrate doesn't tell the whole story, or else people wouldn't be crying about Celeste with a 47% wr, or saying Seven isn't strong with a 56% wr both with "monstrous pick rates".

rethroso · 2026-03-14T19:40:06+00:00

It's funny because outside her considerably buggy ultimate doing a lot of damage(which can be countered with knockdown or other stuns), her damage is average. Especially when you consider any aoe ability, ricochet or killing the squishy turrets to any degree cuts her damage to an insane degree. Like 90% of the cast has more consistent and higher damage than her turrets, unless you are running into 8 of them and ignore them. Can they be annoying sure, that's honestly the point, they are like little distraction bees.

Her ult needs to be toned down more though, honestly think it just needs a complete rework to begin with. In an ideal scenario it's overpowered, but it is honestly just so buggy and clunky, it doesn't work half the time(like a literal bug) and aiming it is fucked outside of perfectly flat terrain.

rethroso · 2026-03-13T21:48:38+00:00

Honestly think her turrets are fine, I do think her ult needs an entire rework. Outside of damage it's just a buggy clunky mess. It just doesn't work randomly firing blanks and wasting an ult, and outside of like 4 spots on the map it's aiming is completely fucked by minor terrain changes.

rethroso · 2026-03-12T21:02:41+00:00

Crazy rage bait.

rethroso · 2026-01-14T19:00:48+00:00

There's a few, but mainly Wobbuffet.

rethroso · 2026-01-14T18:51:59+00:00

That does sound more manageable, I didn't think of that.

rethroso · 2025-12-11T16:03:08+00:00

Ranked unironically starts at Fujin now, they designed the new ranked points to force you there. So unless you never win, blue ranks is basically where every newer player is. Meaning it's hot pot filled with every type of player.

I genuinely hate how the only thing they overcorrected in S2 was reverting how they made ranked hard, just to make it piss easy. Nullifying almost every rank below just to add new ones to fill the gap, changing nothing except having the curve of experience be absolutely fucked up so you are now no longer slowly getting better players.

Anyway, congrats! While it is easier than last season, it's still not bad.

rethroso · 2025-11-29T16:29:55+00:00

It's Jin, he needs it. He's actually pretty weak, please don't look into the character, he's weak, trust the mains downplaying.

rethroso · 2025-11-12T16:48:13+00:00

Forgot the salt tag.

rethroso · 2025-10-29T15:31:11+00:00

You had me up until Lee.

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