Assassins need a nerf | Forums

[peakcoot72]

not a huge one but definetly one to either reduce damage or speed. the fact an orochi can guard break you and hit you with a heavy before you can block it is ridiculous. Peacekeepers just dash around you and jab you with an unbreakable poison guard break. its not that bad but it definetely needs a nerf.

[Alleonn]

"guard break you and hit you with a heavy before you can block it is ridiculous" if you could just sit and block all day that'd be stupid. Guard breaks are meant to open you up to attacks against players who have a permanent blocking system (which assassins do not have, boohoo). First thing you should practice when playing this game is being ONTOP of your guard breaks, I'd suggest changing your keybind to guardbreak (i switched it to f) but you pretty much want your finger on it 24/7 so u can instantly counter guard breaks. I main a peacekeeper and my friend lets me have 0 initiations because he can block my dash heavy and always counters my guard break, so I can never beat him.

[vlopez7]

Reduce speed or nerf the power strike? seriously? just cuz you don't know how to counter a guard break doesn't mean the character is OP it just means you need more practice dude.

[XlMarcoslX]

I agree with peakcoot. I know how to counter the guard break but for an assassins to deal to much damage is not fair. The point behind it is that assassins don't rely on their strength, they rely on their speed and counter moves to hit back. Whereas a knight with a long sword is much slower to hit but when he does land a hit it deals more damage per hit. Another thing thats need to be fixed is the bleed moves that makes a character bleed. I've had matches where more than half my health bled out because they just spammed that move for easy kills. Other than that i can deal with other classes just fine I only have problems with the assassins and nobushi which is basically the same thing as the assassin.

[vlopez7]

that's all fine and dandy that the knight is slower than an assassin, but an orochi literally has to hit you over 10 times with it's quick counter move to kill you and believe it or not if you don't spam your heavy attacks and just try to play on the defensive against an assassin you take away their ability to counter.... it's not rocket science guys just play to your character's strengths and as far as nobushi other than the occasional bug where the poison stab takes away way more than the usual amount it should it's actually really easy to handle their attacks just side step and hit them with a light attack. they cannot counter block in time its easy and effective