Skullgirls Encore Edition Tiers and Matchups Discussion Thread: The Revengeance

Pretty sure any tier lists for this game would involve at least 4 axes. To make it easier on myself, when i think about things like this I just think of them as solos and advantages/disadvantages over others, which would then be covered by the assists of your choice.

On Squig v Filia, I would actually argue Filia is innately better because Squigly's pressure/mixups are easier to escape (pushblocking) in a game that's all about applying near-constant pressure. Don't think Squig even beats Filia in the air.

Squigly can apply pressure at most ranges but Filia focuses on one area and does it much better than squiggy-poo

 

Eh, I think Filia's pretty vulnerable to pushblocks too. Filia requires a bit more knowledge to know when to pushblock, but her neutral is significantly worse than squigly's and gets punished much more for getting pushed out.

 

Sorry to reply to a multiple-months-old post, but this kinda bothered me, and it might apply to more lists, too. You can't have the 'bottom' of a tier list be "mid tier". I get that you're trying to say that the entire game is very balanced (I wholeheartedly agree), but relatively low is still relatively low. Bottom Tier might be very close in skill to Top Tier, but it's still the bottom.

Edit: WELP! Browsed through the last couple pages and saw that you released a more recent opinion of the tier list. My b... Carry on!

 

To reply to your reply to a months-old post, I think the point people are trying to make with "mid tier" is that when you say "bottom tier" in general you mean "do not play this character unless you are a loyalist who is not concerned about winning", whereas in SG even the worst characters are still viable.

 

I like using letter grades rather than top/middle/bottom to avoid that confusion and make it a little clearer how far apart they are. It's kind of weird to say there's no "bottom tier", but saying there's no F-tier makes perfect sense.

 

I'm not sure if this discussion has been done here before, but i suppose it wouldn't hurt to ask.

There's a lot of consensus that Peacock is the best character in the game, but second place usually flips between Fukua and Eliza. I personally think Fukua should take second best since she's faster overall and she gets more utility out of her supers, but what do you guys think?

 

I like Eliza overall better because she has more good options for assists and, IMO, better mixups. I mean, it's splitting hairs at this point between A1 and A2.

 

I love how this happened

Luger is less minus on block and she goes from "Worst character (ok maybe in front of Squigly), without invincible Bomber she is useless" to "Top5 easy, maybe more"

 

As a peacock main, I'm refraining from this argument. Feel free to make your case though @keninblack

Ps. I'm late

 

All of these things were part of the same patch?.? http://skullgirls.com/2015/04/skullgirls-encore-1-04-wulfpatch-notes/

This is the list of things she got on the main build since the Bomber change:

Double

• New Taunt added: False Intentions (LP, LK, MK, HK, HP, MP). Donate 1% meter to your opponent!
• c.LK attack boxes now match Painwheel’s, for improved off-the-ground hit (OTG) ability.
• The window to cancel Hornet Bomber to a Blockbuster after landing is now a consistent 11f. Previously, it depended on positioning and could be as low as 4f.
• Luger Replica received the following changes:
  • Recovery for all versions has been improved from 38f to 37f.
  • Block stun for all versions has been improved from 18f to 25f, improving advantage on block from -11f to -4f at point blank range.

 

I feel like this is missing monster.

 

Didn't Sage used to say that all the time?

 

IIRC sage has said for a while (and still does) that anchor double has been bad since bomber changes. Point double was something that had been relatively unexplored prior to bomber change because anchor was so good. So I think the change was people went from saying "she sucks" to "she sucks as anchor but man this character is a good point now"

 

I used to say she was bad.
Now I think she is okay.

 

Did your opinion again change drastically from this, or is top2 = okay?

 

Top 2 "point" character. Similar to what some people think of Valentine.

 

Hmmm.. Interesting.

The primary things that sages double has gained in games over the old double is now she uses slide combos for more damage and monster instead of cats.


I was thinking maybe it was because doubles resets have had a bit of an overhaul since sage took her on.. Double has really good left right crossunders.


Her position could see some re evaluation, but I'm still of the thinking that val,peacock,Eliza are top 3.

The only matchup that val loses that I know of... Or gets close to losing.. Is to fukua IMHO, MAYBE has some troubles against eliza and bella?

Val beats peacock in my head and basically every other character in the game. So I can't see Val not being top when I think she has the best matchup so in the game.

 

So is it a good idea to run Double by herself, or should you look for a different character to solo with?

 

Just play who you want to play man... If your not succsesful or don't like it try something else don't base it off of "tier"

 

Let me rephrase the question: Should I play anchor Double? Because that's basically playing her solo, right?

 

Thanks for the help, but I don't really like Fortune or Painwheel very much anymore, so I'm learning Squigly and Parasoul at the moment. My team will probably end up Squigs/M Bomber/Pillar at this rate, but I'm still experimenting with the cast.

So what is it about Double that's losing clout as an anchor? Is it the weaker neutral? The lack of insane incoming Mixups? The reliance of meter?

 

Double is double plus good with Drag n Bite assist. It can give you a meterless pick up off reversal Bomber and give you conversions off of block strings into delayed mp Luger. It's also nice to have mostly safe DHCs.

 

Anchor and solo aren't nearly the same. Besides the obvious things like HP and damage being highly different, the primary distinction that separates anchor from solo is that anchor will generally have a lot of meter to work with, and that anchor is very useful for dhc.


The primary reason why anchor double isn't as good an anchor as before is because she's had her assists nerfed, and because she has more competition at anchor now than she did when the game first dropped.

 

Am I missing out on some epic new Skullgirls meme where Valentine is low tier?

 

People at one point in time did complain about Valentine being weak, but that was mostly before she got the damage buff.

 

She was never weak, only got even better

Edit: mainly referring to dekill's tier list thing he posted on Twitter but I'm assuming it's bait

 

Where on my list does it say she's low tier?

 

Comparatively speaking she's one of the weaker characters according to you

 

Nope.

 

It's easy to assume some kind of even distribution bell curve shit when looking at tier lists, even if you label each tier as a different degree of A tier.

 

Valentine lacks tentacles for truly great lovin'. therefore, she's low tier.

 

varying levels of good is still a bell curve, just because you didnt give them S, A, B, C doesn't mean the the lowest on the list aren't bad or "not as good".

last I checked the entire purpose of tier lists is to categorize characters in certain TIERS of how good they are