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Lawbringer changes bring a bit of consistency to his kit and potency at low level, but he will still be garbage at competitive play. Unfortunately this will only reinforce the whole staring contest playstyle, because his parries are even more rewarding.
PK changes might be good, might not be. I'm still not happy with 17 damage lights and 33 damage heavies when you've got people like lawbringer sitting at 12 and 30, but I digress. It all depends on whether or not they fix that input flicker (which, if they do, I think might be the end of her competitively) and whether or not that zone attack will become unsafe on block or just staggered.
The meta will entirely change depending on what they do to parry though. If offence becomes required to do any damage, then PK will stay near the top and lawbringer will become godly due to his built-in parry follow-ups.
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I'm a bit afraid about the conqueror being nerfed. The only thing that would be logical for me it the cost of shield bash on opponent stamina or the timing to avoid it especially if it's used as an opening (what should be dangerous normally). For me this character work as it was designed and I'm not sure he remain so strong against good player in duel.
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I'm generally considered to be one of the better conq players, and he absolutely needs a nerf.Originally Posted by Capoupacap Go to original post
Shield bash spam is incredibly safe and boring for both the player and the opponent. On top of that his omniblock has some very weird properties (likely as a result of it being designed to act as a feint button) that allows him to bypass the most powerful tools of things like Warden and Warlord by cancelling recovery animations and letting him block followups for damage of his own. All of that combines to make him an infuriatingly difficult character to harm, but the low damage, speed and variability of his kit combined with huge stamina costs for trying to do anything interesting means he's very 1-dimensional.
I have no doubt they need to make changes (not necessarily to shield bash itself though) to make shield bash more of a niche tool rather than spammable off of dodges for almost no risk, but the rest of his kit needs bringing up to par.
