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Biggest buff is that the sniper is no longer sighted on LK.

Dustloop has pretty detailed breakdown of the season patch for those who don't want to deal with "ArcSys Patchnotes".

Chipp 6K startup nerf is actually a stealth buff, because your opponent will be too busy giggling at the goofy slow mo animation to block it. Very real tech I promise

There should have been mention of fafnir here with sol's section. Being able to effectively threaten the entire screen now has notably changed how hes able to approach a lot of important matchups for him

one thing not really stated is about the zato btl change where burst now hits it, and burst being full screen killing eddie from anywhere they kind of made burst to be a reset to neutral tool with its new usage. But zato is uniquely punished even on burst read because Eddie will die either way if he is out. While most characters on hit or on block, after burst they can make their way back in and go back to their gameplan, zato is the only one that if eddie was out (anytime he is doing pressure or summoning in neutral, comboing or anything to be honest) will be locked out of his defining mechanic for multiple seconds. On top of his burst punishes themselves getting gutted so even on hard read he still has to stall with short blockstrings

the new faust move was making me think "oh they'll start doing these crazy set ups with specific item combinations" and engaging with that will make me like fighting the character more but I get in game and nothing has changed except they do guard crush thrust. it wasn't the character. it was the players all along.

Jack-O' got a lot out of this patch. Only thing that really sucks is that her 5K got hit, messing up her routes. Other than that it's all great. Shield command launching means she can get combos off it, and countdown command is actually a real move now that it guard crushes, making it usable in some setups (though it's still up in the air how useful this is). Cheer S got buffed for some reason, and Forever Elysium Driver got changed to a strike making it actually useful as a reversal. Cheer H being shortened does kinda suck, but since it instantly refills servant gauge now she can pull off some real shenanigans she couldn't before.

I'm excited to use Bedman a bit more. Feels like both him and Sin got their wrongs righted this patch so I'm hoping that like how Sin feels better, Bedman has a similar feeling

damn waking up and eating breakfast and seeing this was uploaded, this my sunday morning cartoons dawg

I was definitely a big fan of Season 2, the general balance, neutral, etc. but Season 3 has been a blast. Sort of like the December Season 2 Update, I wonder how they will "refine" this season going forward

Miliia can end grounded combos into actual disk setups and that’s just fantastic

Feel like flight would have been fine unchanged after the Eddie regen nerf. Most of the time I struggled with it was because they just used it to kill time until shadow boy was back, which would basically be after one little trip to the air. Now that it actually takes time for him to recover, Zato would have to spend more time in the air stalling, which allows his opponents the opportunity to learn how the Zato player likes to move and can chase him down better. Flight used to be a Warioware microgame where losing meant a return to neutral with a full-power Zato. Now that Eddie's lazy, you actually have the time to corner him. Flight wasn't the problem, rapid meter regen was.

I feel like they didn’t do enough to address Chaos, he may do less damage but he is still only “balanced” by making a mistake in his pressure because he can still exert it so effectively almost anywhere on screen. Idk I might be off but he still seems just like too much

Wild Assault made sure everyone was eating good this patch. Hit-confirimg pokes into full combos with WA reminds me of Jin Kisaragi from BB and his combo extensions.

I think Asuka is going to be more and more a problem during season 3. People are starting to talk about it, but we're seeing some people switch over now too. ( Leffen learning him, JonathanTene talking about a switch, etc )

faust's item eat is not cancellable recovery, it's just an additional animation flourish. the move is already done recovery by the time you can act

I'm super happy with the new spin followup Anji has. Getting nothing or even getting punished for correctly spinning through something feels horrible, and now we get something basically no matter what, even against jump attacks. The fact that you can deal with PRC now is just fantastic. Needles being harder to catch because they're steerable now is very nice also. Hes not top tier by any means since his problems are still there and his damage got nerfed, but he is infinitely less aggrivating to play and that makes me very happy.

tbh the biggest buffs and nerf testament got were from system stuff. the tp change is nice for baiting anti airs and the arbiter change is nice for combos and better oki with stain, but man wild assault is crazy. i can now get reward at roundstart by hit confirming fS 2S or 6P on CH into fully charged wild assault and break the wall at round start. we nago now baby. its also nice getting oki or good pressure from a random fS and testament in positive feels psycho. happy with everything ty daiskuke

I feel like Anji really deserves a mention here as a winner as Arcsys decided to bless him imo. His new move, Midare, is dumb. It is a cancel from spin which means you can punish lights and cancel the startup of Midare to supers to punish at long range. On hit it gives a HKD which means he can set up butterfly after. It is invincible on startup meaning that even if the opponent recovers in time or uses PRC to negate the extra spin recovery Anji can still contest them instead of being forced to guess 50/50 strike/throw. Along with the invincibility it is also +11 on block and has guard crush meaning he gets a strike/throw 50/50 even if the opponent blocks the move. The Fujin changes suck obviously but with Midare making spin way more threatening in neutral and Anji being a pretty good user of Wild Assault (at least from what I've seen) I think Anji is one of the winners of this patch.

I honestly don't mind the Zato nerf to the Eddie timer. I think the problem is that Zato just has such weird MUs In some MUs, losing Eddie was terrible. In others, it was borderline negligible since he could trivially stall until he got Eddie back... to say nothing about how easy it is for Zato to get 50 meter and get Eddie back anyway. At least now, hitting Eddie feels rewarding. Now all that said, it does seem pretty crazy that they would nerf Zato the way they did and not move some of that power elsewhere. I think this was a good opportunity to iron out his MU spread, but they are apparently waiting to do that next year?

Will you do a video on new baiken tech and strategies?

Surprised that Leo wasn't mentioned for becoming even better. H flashkick going away was a thing that happened, but now he can pretty reliably go from 5h into 214[s] bt.s. bt.h. Which builds a good amount of meter for a combo from what is essentially Leo's best button. I think that parts of his toolkit that were underwhelming got better because of system mechanics. For example, Blitzschlag is a callout for the new defensive shield, which would normally be pretty good versus Leo's backturn pressure. Not to mention, bt.h is an easy setup for a charged wild assult on most scenarios, adding to the corner carry and damage of a backturn combo.

LK I rarely come in your channel but you’re looking fresh my friend!

Hell if I know whether it'll push him up the tierlist, but Midare (Anji's Fish) is a blast to use. A reliable, invincible, +11 followup to spinning that gives Shitsu oki or can be kara-canceled into a super feels like something he should've had from day one, and now he finally has it. Also, it's such a simple change, but not loosing the Error State after a wallbreak makes the good ol' Hunk-a-Junk so much more comfortable and fun to play.

This season’s changes were really intelligently done. It feels like they cut down so much cheese while making the game more dynamic and interesting

sol actually got an even bigger buff, his CH 6H is a real move now, you can combo off counterhit again if you do CH 6H > 6S xx WA xx Vortex > 2K kara HVV

S3 is really good. The biggest thing definitely being wild assault. It does two things that help bring the cast together in terms of strength. It allows characters who sometimes struggled to keep their offense going without taking huge risks to get in and stay in. And it helps characters who had conversion issues off certain hits or spots on the screen. Now everyone is kinda ridiculous. Positive giving burst gauge and meter is also great. This version of the game really rewards getting wall breaks. Before, it almost felt like a punishment on a lot of characters. AGAIN closing the gap and making the characters feel more on the same level. Wall slumps are basically dead too considering how much burst you get back from sticking. The damage nerfs and nerfs to reversals were also a great changes. I no longer feel fiery rage when getting hit by a Ram reversal super or Leo dp and kinda just shrug it off now which is how it should feel getting hit by a dp. Not like the world was ending. DP's were WAY to rewarding before and so deserved to get nerfed. Loving S3

What I wanna know is why they reclassed Sin as Balance instead of Rushdown.

Anji feels so good this patch. Last season his worst matchups were at 6.5/3.5 with Sol and probably close to a 7/3 with Zato IMO, now those MUs are like 5.5/4.5 due to fish and the fact that Zato got nerfed. He has pretty good MUs against the top tiers, going pretty close to even vs Leo, HC, and Nago. He's one of the only characters who can consistently gap close vs HC because 236H~S goes like 3/4 screen. He lowkey might have a winning MU on Nago since Anji gets a full c.S punish after spinning any special or any normal other than c.S, 5P, 2P, 5K, or 2K, and on those buttons you get throw into butterfly oki. Asuka is probably his worst MU now, but we're still working on labbing against all the spells.

Testament is weird as they really didn't do much with them. Their teleport can be moved but not too far meaning no mix

I feel like a lot of changes are preemptive to new moves since they made it more apparent that updates will happen more frequently. Like May got a new move and was entirely reworked. Zato was just butchered maybe for future changes?

I think this might be the best version of Millia we've ever seenm (relative to the rest of the cast) with Wild assault and the gradual improvements to consistency over the last few patches.

That Banana pile was *insanely* lucky and hype

anji is eating pretty damn good this patch first of all midare is a goated move, it works on every attack including jabs, and even if the opponent prc their only options are either dp backdash or block, but on reaction you can kara cancel midare into super if needed it gives hkd and lets you set up shitsu oki on hit, and on block it guard crushes wild assault is also very good for anji, since one of the problems before was that in neutral you couldn't really get any reward if you landed f.S which was his main poke losing counterhit on fuujin is sad yes but even if it makes me sad that i don't get to do dumb shit as much, objectively it's not the most important nerf he could have gotten (and it's also consistent with the other rekkas in the game so it's not a targeted nerf)

Surprised you didn't touch on the forward megafist for pot. Not only is it positive now on hit(Thank God) but it sets up into garuda oki. Which even as a pot main I feel is kinda cheese lul. I haven't played the new patch so I'll need more hands on to better gauge it. I'm very happy with the changes pot got. My only complaint would have to be HPB getting a damage nerf. Its scaling was already terrible anyway. I wouldn't mind the damage hit had they made its grab range bigger, it whiffs a lot if the spacing aint just right even when people jump in towards it.

The baiken changes, while I feel like overall her power level isnt super hurt or helped, she feels a lot worse to play for me whenever any of the negative changes come up I just feel frustrated and sad, its lead to me trying johnny and gio a lot more.

ive been playing a buncha chipp in season 3 and ive been having sooo much fun! i get to be even more of an annoying fly and do all kinds of obnoxious stuff that people have to cope with. A++ season so far

The changes to nago's beyblade and shizuriyuki were so needed

When Millia vid?

Break the Law losing to burst/yrc was a way worse nerf to Zato than the flight change.

Sins backdash distance was shorter prepatch

I haven't played since the patch came out. Gotta see how my boy Axl feels now

Would LK ever go bck to millia?

Ino is a DEMON in this new patch

im surprised the Sol fafnir buff wasnt mentioned, the range of fafnir makes pressuring zoners much easier now from personal experience fighting him. Id say that buff is a pretty big win

Just wanted to add my 2 cents about sin as I've basically been solo maining him for ~5 ish months now in celestial. These new changes are massive and despite the jokes it's true that he's a proper character now, and it seems that they're slowly tuning him to find the sweet spot in which he isn't op. Many of the issues he had before the patch are still present, with the main ones being punishable/minus on hit specials (especially beak and hoof stomp), still growing being too slow and not worth the effect, and lackluster ch conversions on specials, like ch beak only lets you 2p --> dp as a combo, which costs all 3 stamina bars just to get a full combo, and hoof stomp ch gets you nothing which is kinda sad. His pressure no longer being completely fake is a great first step in the right direction though, and you're right in saying that it's harder to disrespect his options now. I'm excited to see how his gameplan and balance change in the future!

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They gotta nerf my boy HC's focus gauge more but I'm happy for rn with Baiken, HC, Pot, and Nago.

Gio is looking really strong the only problem i have with her now is that chave 214k doesn't really do anything besides pushing you away, and normal 214k works better as a frame trap

Hey LK hopefully this comment helps with understanding as a zato why this patch feels so demoralizing at times They kept the endless block strings for zato and WA let’s him extend his pressure and sets up an unblockable but the changes to BTL, 5p/2p, and Eddie meter really just crushed him in the situations he already struggled with. The fact they toned him down in that regard while bringing everyone up makes it feel like he’s just working even harder around system mechanics that he had unique counter play to are just gone. Character identity flipped on its head. Can’t mash 5p RRC to gamble situations that would lock him into death for not challenging due to range nerf, can’t BTL bait Yrc or blue burst in eddie trades or to keep pressure going as solo zato until meter is back Lot of the cast has much easier ways to check Eddie in pressure strings and if you’re not perfect you just reset to neutral to get yrc’d. If you have burst and no Eddie and they land a WA while blocking you have 0 options since WA drains burst and saving zato WA for his win condition is almost always better in this catch 22. ArcSys didn’t make it easier for him to wallbreak and kept his looping wall slumps, but slumping people gives a ton of burst back (you can’t bait lol) and forces him to burn WA during those strings to keep slumps worth it TLDR: everyone got better, zato nerfs hit him hard in already tough situations, and the new system changes to bursts and yrc made his previous routing to bait things non exisitent with pretty minimal reward even if you block burst normally Zato flight isn’t nearly as bad as people say, it’s the BTL nerf that honestly makes the game feel painful when accompanied by spending 10 seconds flying around for your life every interaction that doesn’t go your way

shout out to IASA frames

I'm just glad Baiken is still doing fine

Anji got added into the game! Finally!

off topic: you look awesome with that beard. fits you well.

I'm loving wild assault it's so much fun

Can we see a return of Millia in Season 3?

Ill wait on Zato, Gobou was playing Zato and Zato looked savage. Also i think nago is really being slept on.

patch was definitely weird they buffed characters that really really needed it but then just... didn't balance the clear best characters in the game while mid characters just kind of got mediocre buffs with awkward nerfs hard to understand what their vision is for the game except for "Play HC"

Rip my boy zato

zato still cracked we got mix for days boys dont doom out we still cookin

Sad about zato getting removed but at least Johnny came out same day to replace him

Next video on johnnyyy

everyone is sleeping on jacko. smh

I agree Zato got nerfed, but I disagree that it’s for worse. He needs it and now he has it, and he’s still gonna do Zato stuff, just less free now

HC didn't get nerfed as much as some people would like but he definitely caught nerfs. All of the system mechanic changes are nerfs to him, he had a lot of unburstable combos which aren't there anymore because of full screen burst, was one of the main abusers of wall slump loops, huge abuser of GoldBurst>Win Game combo, deflect shield gets him off of you, etc. As well as now you can't space roll out of grab range, he has less damage, and his bullets give insane combo decay now (sorta same thing as damage nerf), and super focus duration got halved. Don't get me wrong he for sure is still strong, but he def got some nerfs this patch. Edit: Seeing WA tech and 6K being better against deflect shield plus reload recovering concentration faster is a bit funny though. Hopefully reload recovering concentration faster is a bug that gets patched, WA stuff everyone has so it's not a shocker.

I actually started playing sin

Overall think Jack-O was nerfed she got some good stuff but the 5K nerf and her low damage in an even higher damage game is really rough

Bedman?

Asuka got buffs only, technically speaking, lol.

rip FMF HKD on air hit

shout out to bedman, glad he's finally been added to the game

So hype to see the game continue to get refined, definitely feels like the burst changes are SF6-influenced

The worst zato nerf was making the frog a mid

I get that Zato players might be really annoyed by his nerfs, but I have to say, I'm thrilled with the Eddie change. I've thought for a long time that Eddie came back really quickly in this game, and it didn't feel very rewarding to get that hit on him unless you were able to also immediately start pressure on Zato, because it wasn't too hard to him to use things like the drill or his movement to just stall a bit until Eddie came back. I dunno if maybe the flight thing is too much, or if they nerfed him enough now that he'll need buffs later to compensate, but I'm at least very happy with that Eddie change personally.

Where my Bed at!? 😰

I hope the system changes make happy chaos easier to counter. Not so much at my level of play but I find his gameplan boring to spectate at tournaments. I might be weird for this thought though.

Zato bros…

Something worth mentioning about Sin is that he practically didn't get hit by the unviersal nerfs so rekkas and supers. His RTL did get a damage reduction, but the tyrant barrel (wich is used a lot more) didn't. And then his followups still have counterhit effects.

They killed my baiken combos ;-;

Seems like they are pretty satisfied with how weak Zato was in Rev2 that they made him like that again.

Asuka is the secret top tier that character is broken

whats the point anymore

Lord looks like unc

it’s zatover

HC was supposed to get nerfed than zato tbh

I think happy chaos will still be a problem and ruin the game, just like what happened in injustice 2

Zato players deserved it hold that

May lost her overhead (too slow now) and 6H combos. Is she bottom-tier?

You didn’t mention banana peel crash. Unwatchable.

Even if you think Zato is still good, the Eddie nerf makes for bad gameplay. There is nothing fun about 7 second intervals of playing the waiting game.

I'll tell you that im tired of relearning Gio from scratch every single patch. God I feel like an Overwatch Mercy player.

Sin the big eater

Look how they massacred my boy :(

READING RAINBOW !!!!!!!!!!

Sol feels nerfed because of the buffs the entire cast got, but i don't think sol was good in season 2 either. It really feels like he needs more pressure and attack speed buffs. I was stuck floor 10 in season 2 and i finally reached celestial placements in season 3 twice but dropped down to floor 8.

Hey why does this guy lowkey look 15 and 50 at the same time. Kinda confusing me. Also Johnny is a secret top tier trust

Holy cow what happened to Lordknight, he went from young to oldman real quick

huge

The Goldlewis nerfs really really disappointed me more than the Zato nerfs even though I main Zato bc not only was the Eddie Gauge nerf unnecessary with the flight nerf but it feels like they killed Goldlewis's combos