u/fence_of_pence

Ever since her release, I don't think I've ever lost to one. If I have it is extremely rare. Is she actually bad? I kind of have a general base knowledge of her kit because she's been in the game a while but I don't fully understand her kit. She seems fun to play but the closest anyone ever got to beating me in a duel was the other day which I recorded and it honestly made me want to pick her up.

She seems to be all over the place in tier lists too. Her deflect gimmick seems cool but seems really easy to shut down by just dodging and blocking or guardbreaking.

I'm not claiming to be some for honor God but it seems odd that I never seem to lose to this character and was wondering if one of you wizard sweats has some insight that I may be missing. What are her strengths or weaknesses that set her apart either for upwards or downwards?

Before anybody calls me bad I'm diamond 3 in duels and have been playing the game on and off ever since it came out.

Virtuosa is the only character in the game that consistently makes the game so unfun that I consider taking another hiatus. This character is what happens when the development cycle reaches late stage So the development team gets so desperate for new ideas that they just add something that should not be in the game whatsoever.

Your strat in a team fight is to just sit there in your stance if anybody attacks you then they're going to whiff and you get a free punish off of it. The second that someone starts to focus on you, She gets access to hyper armor heavies with almost no guard break vulnerable Windows so you can't really do that. The only time you can really keep her out of that stance is if you get really lucky and light attack the same time or a little before she lights. And even then a correct read means that she is going to smash you with a hyper armor heavy so it's incredibly risky if the virtuosa is a good player.

This character is an absolute slog to fight in 4s. The virtuosa will always be the last person alive because her stance is so safe that it makes the character child's Play. In duels, certain matchups are straight up undoable. Turns into a ridiculous staring contest every single time and you just better hope that they're brain dead enough to spam light attacks so you can Parry them but at mid to higher level they're smart enough not to do that and mix it up with unblockables and uninterruptable attacks. There should not be a mechanic in the game where the only soft counter to it are undodgeable attacks that not every character has access to. There should not be an all guard that can punish bashes, it's just a mechanic that's too strong to be in this game and you should feel like a chode for using it.