u/ParagonFury

Like it was great pretty much from the mid-point of Season 3 until Season 4 launched when it's taken an absolute nosedive. It went from fairly balanced and fun matches frequently to like 6-8 games of absolute curbstomps followed by 1/2 good games then back to crap again.

It's actually kind of maddening. Because neither stomping nor getting stomped is fun, especially not this often.

And it's just like, Red/Yellow really has nothing it can do about any of the Meta or stronger decks does it?

In my area it's basically Regionals/Championship Lite every single NN, which means except for the odd night someone decided they wanted to play Jinx/Leona/Jhin you'd be facing nothing but basically copies of the Top Diana/Aurora/Yi/Azir decks with maybe a splash of Vex or Renata over and over again.

Looking through the entirety of what Red + Yellow has available to it;

• Diana (or any competent deck with Purple in it) is basically just an auto loss. You have nothing you can do about any of the BS they're going to be able to pull, Vex ruins your entire gameplan and even in the rare cases you get to the point where you might be able to outfight them they'll just save their units or bounce yours.
• Aurora is entirely up to your opponent either drawing like garbage and/or you (the r/Y) player drawing like an absolute god and getting all your Salvages + Multiple Kill Spells for Elder Dragon. If either of those things don't happen you just lose, especially if it's an Aurora deck that can play it's Trash back.
• Yi feels somewhat more manageable and able to be outfought at times, but it feels like Yi still has the upper hand because both Green and Orange can outfight r/Y on a whim.
• Azir honestly feels like it's the best to play against because Vi would absolutely LOVE to run over a bunch of little dudes and the ability to snipe key gears/units with Salvage or a well-time kill spell hurts Azir a bunch more than doing it to say, Aurora.

Am I missing something or is it really this dire for everyone outside of the Meta colors/decks?

Republic of the Sphere: *uses actual, realistic + sound military tactics and strategy against an invading force*

Clans: THAT'S CHEATING! FIGHT US HEAD ON IN OPEN COMBAT OR WE'LL COMMIT ALL THE WARCRIMES!

Also Clans: We're the good guys and deserve to rule over Terra and all of humanity.

It's actually kind of funny how far their own asses the Clans are; like how has the whiplash of encountering reality not clocked them out yet?

EDIT: I'm specifically referring to how the Clans got mad when the IS forces tried doing stuff like sabotaging supply lines, attacking support personnel and waging general guerilla warfare in order to try to choke off Clan forces and weaken them.

That is all.

I played almost all of DoA with either a controller or Arcade stick, but a few years back and I changed to a Leverless for my fighting games.

Used to be able to do Lisa's combo throw like 90% of the time, but I've been able to do it exactly one time now. Doing 360s on a Leverless is hard enough, but doing them after doing motions immediately beforehand is frustrating AF.

I was playing a match last night where one of my opponents had an Ares heavy mech and while it eventually went down due to multiple critical ammo failures, I had a thought on the way home:

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The Ares is a *large lad*. It is possible that within the rules of the game that a jump jet mech could perhaps....jump on top of it to attack it from above to damage it and prevent return fire? Or that a speedy dmall lad like a Mercury could climb it to similar effect?

So my LGS has mostly just been playing TDM/Last Man Standing and while it's been fun it does end up with a mostly "General Brawl" until someone becomes slightly weaker then ganging up on them, or just slugging it out once everyone ends up clumping together.

I've heard that the game can be played with Objectives to win instead of just TDM/LMS but none of the rulebooks I've gotten so far go over how to play that way, so I'm wondering how you set that up in order to have it play out nicely.