It smells a little off, but boys will be boys amirite? As a proud wolfrib supremacist, I’m so happy that my son turned out exactly like me.
Im not joking around, this really bothered me enough to make a post. What is this??? To call this ugly would be an insult towards actual ugly things. Ugly is what you call something like Shaolin or Arakure’s gear. Ugly is what you call Musha or Raider’s hero skin. This isn’t ugly; this is worse. Because I can feel intent behind it. He intentionally curated every single aspect of this fit, carefully making this 50k+ steel look and left sincerely convinced that it was passable for whatever his original intent was. It isn’t even gross to look at in a funny way. The meshing of the colours is too matte, the lack of saturation makes them blend together in the same way that colourful plastic does in a landfill, making the armour look homogenous and dull in spite of the CVD-fuelled material selection. And that hideous cape too. It’s like he suddenly remembered how contrast works and decided that he really wanted the back of his character to look like an infant had been shovel-fed candy corn and driven projectile vomit all over a bedsheet. To top it off, it was decided that the loadout would look best with an effect that resembles the black Mold growing in the corner of his ceiling. In fact, I bet that that’s the true culprit behind the creation of this atrocity, I refuse to believe a rational human with no outside influence, be it from substances or the evil one, could have thought of this.
I’m sure Realyx is a great guy irl, but I struggle seeing this loadout as anything but a moral failing. I hope his time in the Philippines helped him find his Zen or whatever, and I pray his coaching endeavour takes off so that he can get the funding to PURGE whatever possessed him to make this.
Condemn Afeera to scaphism this instant rant over
Yeah Im miserable shut up
It’s on sight gng I don’t give a damn if you’ve played her since you were conceived in the womb, select this blonde wretch post season update and bad things will happen to good people
There seems to be a shift in adventure stories and the like that lean away from the typical kind, strong, charismatic knight/paladin archetype to favour more brutal rogue/assassin flavoured characters that laugh at the concept of fair play or mercy. Or maybe I’m just reading too much manwha idk. Now there’s nothing inherently wrong with this, the latter can be awesome in its own right, but I dont like how they often make the former look like bumbling fools in order to prop up their respective MCs. The good guy is a dumbass for sparing the life of his enemy. He’s a naive idiot for letting his opponent have a fair fight, even if they wouldn’t do the same to him. He’s an antiquated fool who cares more for his pride than the innocent if he’s morally against torture, terror, poison and other such tactics (This obviously has nothing to do with the historical codes of honour or the lack thereof, I’m only referring to the idealised fictional version here.)
“Mercy upon the ruthless is evil to the weak” is a sentiment you often see in regards to this, as if sparing the life of someone you’ve resoundingly beaten will 100% of the time lead them back to stealing/killing instead of them turning their life around after this sudden brush with death by the hand of a person who could’ve killed them but was good-willed enough to give them a second chance. Isnt this way cooler than the other cynical view? Not to mention that I am CERTAIN that the same people supporting this notion wouldnt be okay with cops executing surrendered criminals on the street, so why is it a problem if a Samurai or Knight doesnt do it?
John Mongol is here because GOT (great game btw, play it if you haven’t already, it’s old enough to read and write) does something similar to this. They make Shimura, who in universe is a highly accomplished and respected Warlord who has won unwinnable battles against “dishonourable” foes before (the Yarikawa rebellion), seem like a bullheaded dumbass who’d punch a wall 20 times and come to the conclusion that he needs to punch harder in order to overcome it instead of just climbing over. His in-game ideals about honour dont even apply to his own troops, how do you “look your opponent in the eye” as an archer trickshotting pissants from a mountain range over? Or using fire and hornets on your foes? Im assuming his bowmen acted like actual bowmen in his battles instead of doing the CQC bow strat Yuna does, so how does he explain that away? He’s deliberately made to look like a dullard in order for the audience to more readily agree with the brutal, cutthroat tactics Jin is adopting. The mongols won because they had an obscene number advantage and knew all of the tactics the Samurai employed, not because (fictional) Samurai tradition is inherently stupid.
First impressions actually playing her (duels alone), this hero is hard asf
Not only is her neutral turbodogshit, but her stance is really complicated to use (for example, right side bash doesn’t do direct damage or guarantee a light somehow and is gbable, somewhere a certain Chinaman is laughing into his fist). It often doesnt activate quick enough on the UB recovery to act as a true 50/50 a la JJ, Zerk or VG, and the soft feints from UB are stabbing motions, ie straight lines, ie attacks with less single target tracking than a rabid pug. Even her stamina is hard to manage because stance drains it (thank you FHR), you need to dump 3/4 of it to get actual decent damage in AND then you have manually end it. It sounds simple here but it’s pretty difficult to get used to in a live duel, at least her little OOS pants are kinda cute.
Getting pieced up by a Virt isnt a “noobstomp” or a “p2w DLC moment”, you’re either getting mental stacked or just straight up knowledge-checked by a player who I have no doubt is thinking way harder than you are, both because he’s distracted and it’s what this hero requires of you to play well outside of just babysit ganking. You do not need a UD to fight Virt, literally just gb, block, neutral dodge attack, interrupt or empty dodge and refer to the first, I promise you it’s not that deep (because this is how I fought them before buying her).
Either way, fun hero, exploded immediately.
Lawbringer needs 10
Zhanhu needs 10
Cent needs 10 (and only goes OOS once instead of twice)
While Medjay needs 14.
While his blue mixup is a light.
While his UB access is locked behind a heavy with no properties.
While his fwd heavy is unfeintable.
MEDJAY NEEDS 14. I was going to call him Midjay for the title but even that ain’t right because this guy is just ASS. This fucking MedJoke looks like he ate a Shaman before popping on to the map and still does NINE DAMAGE PER BASH. NINE DAMAGE. Where did this beetle-snorting hobo find the audacity to pull up to the battlefield at all bro, what purpose does he serve here? His fashion is cheeks unless you love ogling his bare mantitties (devs certainly did, seeing as he doesnt have a SINGLE CHESTPIECE THAT COVERS HIS ENTIRE MIDSECTION), his animations were shamelessly nicked from Hito and Zerk and he doesnt even have the decency to be viable outside of being a Midlane Merchant. Send his bum ass back to Egypt and give his crocodile helm to a more deserving hero.
Reminded me why I dont like painting buildings and landscapes ts was horrible 😭
This is a rant of appreciation and joy and sunshine and rainbows.
Bought him after the nerfs and I haven’t stopped having fun, best part is that he’s got Virt syndrome where he’s been ballbusted by nerfs so many times that you can’t even get mad at him anymore without looking like a scrub. Sure his back hold heavies are bullshit and the hold bash could use a bit more recovery time (seeing as it feels like it practically has dodge cancels in its current state) but he’s balanced probably sorta kinda!
He’s easy but in a fun Hito kinda way instead of a watching-paint-dry Lawbringer one. His gameplay flow is one thing, but I really play him because of the aesthetic. That weird moon halberd thingamajig he has is just such a cool weapon, the hold heavies in particular are just beautiful. The idea of slamming the blade in and then ripping it out for a pin and extra damage is such an awesome, brutal idea that I’m surprised another hero hasn’t had a similar concept to it yet.
His movements in general are so fun, his emotes and attacks genuinely look like something that I would do if I’d found a cool stick in the woods and believed myself to be sufficiently alone. They really deserve praise for managing to add those flamboyant Chinese martial arts movements to a 6’2 Terachad Beast from the East and not make it look silly. And did I mention how satisfying his OOS punishes are?
He’s a strong yet manageable Duels pick imo and I’m certainly not saying because I can react to his chain bash on animation. Literally my only complaints are that his gb range is Majungasaurus short and that his kit is so prone to misinputs but that’s an issue on my part
(“Broken in Dominion”??? What’s a Dominion????)
Fuck backgrounds I ain’t spending more time on ts
In Duels
This may come as a massive surprise to you, but an infinite UB/bash vortex that you can’t dodge attack IS good offence. A fwd bash that you can’t dodge attack and a feintable fwd heavy that stuffs gb and can be recover and startup cancelled IS good neutral. The best non LB dodge bash in the game with a superior block for extra safety and the aforementioned AG that you can flow into from anything IS good defence. So in what way is conqueror a bad character? His damage? As if it isnt so comparatively low BECAUSE he’s so safe? Let’s not go ahead and act like low numbers stopped the loud Chinese asshole from being testicle rippingly good before the last patch anyways.
He is not “slow”, you are bad at neutral. He is not “predictable”, you are bad at making reads. Please waste your breath downplaying somebody who actually deserves it for once 🥹
Yeah he’s still an aight duelist yeah he deserved to be shot dead back in the day but at least make dragon dodge safe on light hitstun it’ll be balanced trust me it’ll be balanced
“Yeah just 90° that shit, nobody will notice anyways” 🥀
Also imagine having the option to have this armour set’s arms WITHOUT the stupid exposed skin, or this chest piece without the capes it’d be so nice. Three sets with alternates is peak fashion, which is why Gryphon and WM go hard as often as they do
Legit shame on you, it’s like being handed a shotgun in a street fight and still managing to lose, idc if you’re up against a fucking Shaolin, Afeera, prime Tiandi or whatever other duelist that sprung up from the salt of Satan’s sweaty ballsack, playing Shinobi and accomplishing the FEAT of losing should have your right to reproduce brought up to suspect
Deleted the Rant in my head mid-victory screen and requeued