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[Lyskir]

Not trying to call anyone out here, but I have my doubts that everyone claiming to be top tear and always deal with turtles are legit. I don't see much turtling at all at rep 30. And I watch tons of "top tier" players and they don't even turtle very much. I feel that it is a lot of bandwagoning. But I'll tell you why I personally am glad the parry nerf didn't make it into the game. Because parrying a shinobis light is going hard. And almost necessary to win. And you should get a tough punish from it. All this change would do in high level play is shift the meta from parry to dodge. Still a defensive meta. Defence is always preferred to offence in any fighting game. FH isn't going to change that. The biggest damage will go to the mid tier (aka 90% of the playerbase) where light parrys are rare and light spamming is a legitimate tactic. This will take away most people's only defence against fast characters. Because a raider can't trade with a pk. So pk would win every fight without the heavy punish. You would have to parry her like 12 times to kill her. But what other options do you have? Her lights will disrupt EVERYTHING in your kit. The only fast attack raider has is heavy feint into light. But you cant do it because she can light attack you out of animation before you get a chance. Like i said in a previous post, what will slow characters do without parry? Thats the only way they can win.

amen

[FredEx919]

Hello all,

Just to clarify, the patch notes are the full changes coming at the start of the season (tomorrow). When we have new features or balance changes on the test environment, it's specifically to test and gather feedback. Based on that, we can make adjustments and begin working the changes into the live game. That doesn't guarantee they'll be in the following title update though. We'll keep you posted on the progress with defensive meta changes and what we gathered from the test.

[psyminion]

amen

I'm just a scrub at rep 52 and I second this amen.