I don't know how okay you need me to be before continuing discussion. I'm okay enough with it to keep playing her and utilize her new options? Is that sufficient?
I don't know how you want this question answered. Why I'm okay with Fukua as a character? I'm okay with it cause it's just a video game? I'm okay with it cause I can still have fun playing her? Basically, I'm okay with it in the same way I was okay when Bella lost hit invincibility on mgr. It's something I used for neutral and setups, but it's gone so I don't do that anymore.
I don't want anything else changed. Do I have to? I have asked for everything I want with Bella. I asked for and got the Eliza grab servant buff. I made my thoughts on m shadow clear to Mike. Anything else I've had concerns about (Peacock stuff, Fukua hard knockdown+assist+shadow left/right/high/low mixup while Fukua blocks or goes for another mixup herself) I've brought up when I had them. I'm mostly satisfied as far as asking for things goes.
So you are against it because of the team you opted to play. Thats not a fukua problem. Thats more of YOUR problem. Look at fukua as a character and not the assists she gives others. M shadow by herself was too strong. Its gone and probably not coming back so if thats all your worries areI don't know how okay you need me to be before continuing discussion. I'm okay enough with it to keep playing her and utilize her new options? Is that sufficient?
I don't know how you want this question answered. Why I'm okay with Fukua as a character? I'm okay with it cause it's just a video game? I'm okay with it cause I can still have fun playing her? Basically, I'm okay with it in the same way I was okay when Bella lost hit invincibility on mgr. It's something I used for neutral and setups, but it's gone so I don't do that anymore.
If you want me to explain what about the changes to fukua outside of retail m shadow I like, I like all of them. I was unsure about holding shadows at first, but I'm mostly just not a fan of holding buttons while I have to move around a bunch (I couldn't play Juri in sf4 cause of this).
If you are asking me what I'm okay with in her game that makes not being able to throw out m shadow more palatable... with Fukua on point, I can maneuver around just fine. I can hold shadows and call assist. I can jump at them with j.lp. I can poke with c.hp fireball, I can retreat with kara shadows, I can poke with h fireball when I think they wanna jump, I can jumping h fireball or l fireball. I'm not having a problem playing the character, hitting things, or moving around.
I made this post a little while back. I don't know if you read it. It's not that I'm against the change because, as Fukua, I can't throw m shadow out. I'm against the change because, as Bella, I can't have m shadow assist. There is no other assist in the game that serves the same neutral purposes as m shadow did. Using m shadow assist, I got the freedom with a well timed m shadow to be mobile in the air. I could approach with a jump or approach air-to-air with more confidence. I didn't have to run myself ragged chasing people down, and I could force them to confront me by just making them block then moving closer. I had a lot more freedom and control over what went on in matches, and I found a way to play the game in a way I didn't think I could before then (hence me learning a team rather than playing 8 different characters solo). I literally had a playstyle with Fukua on the team that is no longer accessible to me. Nothing in Fukua's new kit and nothing in any other character's kit can replicate what retail m shadow does for Bella, no matter how well Fukua herself can still function without the move.
I don't want anything else changed. Do I have to? I have asked for everything I want with Bella. I asked for and got the Eliza grab servant buff. I made my thoughts on m shadow clear to Mike. Anything else I've had concerns about (Peacock stuff, Fukua hard knockdown+assist+shadow left/right/high/low mixup while Fukua blocks or goes for another mixup herself) I've brought up when I had them. I'm mostly satisfied as far as asking for things goes.
It's a team game, how a character stacks up as an assist is important. What they offer to teammates is an important part of their identity. You're the one grilling me on my personal preferences, I'm not shoving them down anyone's throat. All I said was she's different then she was and, when grilled, that I like how she used to be. I got my point across clearly to Mike, then cleanly stopped talking about it. I wasn't the person who brought up m shadow in the first place.
This is not free. It has a mediocre hitbox; you can spend 1 meter to punish it on block; you can pushblock the last hit, so there is no mixup to take, and at that point you can pb her out. Also its can be antiaired relatively easily if you are being mindful at neutral (which you always should be).
no one mentioned punishing projectiles while blocking.
No.
Yay, let Bella deflect your normals into your face
You can still hit the shadow just don't make it disappear when Fukua is forced to block. She already loses health when she holds a shadow why make her lose the shadow when she blocks after activation? Literally every character can get in with no risk with a lock down assist. Filia gets in for FREE with airball. Fukua should have a way of getting in your face to start her game. As it stands now all you have to do is force Fukua to block and she loses a lot of her options due to shadows having hitboxes.
Also fortune can do a move pre block stun and have it continue
It's a team game, how a character stacks up as an assist is important. What they offer to teammates is an important part of their identity. You're the one grilling me on my personal preferences, I'm not shoving them down anyone's throat. All I said was she's different then she was and, when grilled, that I like how she used to be. I got my point across clearly to Mike, then cleanly stopped talking about it. I wasn't the person who brought up m shadow in the first place.
But alright. I'll stop. We're changing Robo to make the cast more diverse, but unique assists that generate unique playstyles are not really important, apparently.
I would looooove if that was the case. Every complaint I have about it currently would be gone if the neutral functionality of retail was kept as an assist.
This has already been discussed. Why should every character except Fukua have access to old m shadow's functionality?
If we're talking about held shadows, shouldn't this be a situation where you had enough time to see it and then block? and aren't shadows still pretty bad on block as well?
Sonic, you can't tell people her neutral is "The same" or "better" than it is now, and then say "playing old-style Fukua with beta Fukua is now suboptimal and you should not play Fukua that way if you want to do well" because retail Fukua actually let you zone, which is much better neutral than not be able to zone.
And you're just going around in circles contradicting yourself.
Honestly, can't other characters set up similar situations to the Fukua loop with the right assists anyway?
Me saying her gaining pressure at the cost of losing pressure is an input error. I meant to just say damageSonic, you can't tell people her neutral is "The same" or "better" than it is now, and then say "playing old-style Fukua with beta Fukua is now suboptimal and you should not play Fukua that way if you want to do well" because retail Fukua actually let you zone, which is much better neutral than not be able to zone.
Beta Fukua does not let you zone and I fail to see how lack of zoning = better neutral.
The lack of a supplementary long-range move to go with her Fireballs has clearly limited her options in neutral. Shadow M happened to be that supplementary move. Perhaps it is too good as a reset tool, and I will even accept the argument that Retail Shadow M might even be too good as a zoning tool on its own since it covers so much space in a single move, but the problem isn't that she lost an "every-use tool," it's that she completely lost the zoning aspect of that type of tool, which drastically changes how her neutral game is played, and it involves a lot less zoning, which is clearly worse neutral. You claim she somehow has better neutral in her Beta version yet lacks the ability to zone in any way remotely near the level she used to in retail.
And then you say things like this:
And you're just going around in circles contradicting yourself.
She is not different and the same at the same time, and she is not better in every respect while being worse in those same respects. The changes in how her tools work clearly suggest the contrary.
I like being able to zone with Fukua, and her losing that changes her playstyle even if you think it doesn't. Just because she still has everything else with some new twists to her existing tools doesn't mean what she lost didn't impact how you have to play the character.
The fact of the matter is, Beta Fukua is simply a different character; maybe not by much, but she is clearly different now from what she was in retail, and everyone who liked her Retail playstyle, for better or worse, will not all agree with the Beta playstyle and may drop her. Those who played her more rushdown or footsie-based are less likely to be negatively affected by these changes because the changes to her tools are more geared towards pressing her advantage after already winning the neutral game, and her footsies and rushdown have been largely untouched with these changes. Her zoning, on the other hand, has been severely hindered.
I'm not saying Old Shadow M needs to come back, which you seem to insist that is what others want, but in order to give her back some of her zoning that she lost when new Shadow M was introduced, I think she should get something to allow her to reliably zone, even if it means losing something new she got recently in beta to balance her out.
The fact that she changed so drastically so quickly with the final patch of the game leaves me concerned.
Character is in a good place I feel.
Try to refrain from "Oh someone said something wacky so now I can." : (
WOOOOOW NOW your finally asking the smart questions. Thank you thank you.@SonicFox5000, you're not listening to me at all. You have these blinders on that anyone who dislikes Beta Fukua or speaks out against her CLEARLY must not be a "True Fukua Main" because those players "don't want to think" and want to spam Shadow M.
I have already explained to you that that is not the case, at the very least, for myself.
I could point out the contradictions in your latest statement, but I'd just be repeating myself, and because you won't listen, this cycle will never end, so I won't bother.
Instead, I implore you to answer the question you so adamantly insist is true:
If you have such divine insight on Fukua, then please explain to everyone how losing Old Shadow M made her zoning better.
Being able to convert, set up, mix up, and pressure are NOT benefits of neutral game and zoning. They are benefits when at an advantage.
Please, and thank you.