I guess I just need to see how she's not completely ridiculous/good and actually exploitable. 40 hits of armor on a command throw that converts to a full combo, crazy projectiles, day one 8k+ universal BnBs, etc. are all kind of daunting. I really thought that was the joke more than anything.
1 - I make sure I can hit the same basic amount of damage with each character before they come out. I realize damage will go up as people inspect them further, but this is really a thing I actually DO.
2 - Sweepable/snappable/throwable armor on a command throw with
35f of startup. As I said elsewhere, if you are being hit by this you got read HARD, and would have been hit by lots of other moves in the same place. If you hit it with a normal, if nothing else cancel into a sweep and you're fine.
3 - Her command grab only converts if she's cornered or has meter.
3 - Not counting Lv3 because most peoples' Lv3s are useful reversals, she has two meterless reversals that beat physical hits (35f grab and HK drill, which is unsafe) and NO reversals that beat throws without meter. With meter she has a fireball that is not invincible, and a super with 25f of startup. That's long enough that most of the cast can whiff a meaty and punish.
Do not confuse "I can't react to this character's incredibly long startups yet" with "she's really good".
@Number 13
1. I have trouble believing anything Mike Z would State at this point, we all believed we were only getting 5 characters and just because he felt like it we get a new subpar one (again great Aprils fools joke, but not worth staying), how am i certain hes not going to make Sqiffly or any other recycled assets character a thing just for the sake of the "Lulz"? Because he said so?
You don't have much of a choice but to believe me, so you might as well do that. She was made cuz she fit a situation and had lots of stuff almost ready to go. Sqiffy doesn't.
My viewpoint's pretty simple - if we have to quit making the game, then it may as well have this extra character rather than not. In then end it's about what's FUN, and if she's FUN and is up to Lab Zero standards
as determined by Lab Zero then I don't see a problem with it. Especially if she ends up being usable.
I don't care if "people" might think we're lazy for it, I'd rather expend the remaining effort to have another viable character that "people" might enjoy than just toss it. Since "people" already think we're stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars/sexist/racist/bad game designers/shouldn't have made the game in the first place/not actually working/"everyone will play USF4 but nobody will play Skullgirls" (my favorite quote about the Decapre spoof), if we were worrying about "people" I think we'd have stopped long ago, ne?