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Yeah... The Zerker is definitely OP. And how I'm sure that if I fight against someone, using an Orochi after rework, and I can beat all his characters, including a mirror match (Orochi vs Orochi), beat the PK, beat the Kensei, beat the Gladiator, but not the Zerker, then the Zerker is OP. He simply has too much.
Many faint options
Deflect follow-ups are high damage
Hyper armor on almost everything
Quick lights
The issue is that he has a solution for literally everything. You try to block, he can feint like crazy to attack you from any side with his fast lights. No matter how good you are, you will not be able to block everything.
You try to interrupt with your lights, he can either hit you harder due to an exchange with hyper armor, or he simply deflects you as a punish. You can't rely on your lights either because a good player will bait them.
Feinting is a losing battle since his are superior to any other character.
Using heavies will make sure you are interrupted instead.
The only heroes that stand a real chance are the Conqueror, which is OP itself, the PK due to apeed & bleed and the Aramusha, since he has the speed and defense to keep up, but will have to play superior to beat the Zerker. All other heroes are at a clear disadvantage against the Berserker and cannot win in a 1v1 if the players are equally skilled.
A solution is to either reduce the amount of attacks that have hyper armor, or significantly increase his stamina usage for feints.
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Feints require you to bite, end of story. The only time you try and parry a zerker is when he's in the air. Block him and you shut him down -- his unblockables are easy to read (second attack in chain OH, 3rd attack in chain following two side heavies).
From neutral his lights are 500ms, same as anyone. If he feints, they are 400 and you should always expect him to feint because heavies from neutral would be dumb and he cannot chain lights together (his infinite is light,heavy,light, heavy, etc)
He's a strong character, but a pretty far cry from OP. He cannot force you to play his game if you're patient, he has no bash, and has incredibly short range with his T-rex arms.
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Completely agree. Its completely guessing game with Zerk. He barely runs out of stamina can do 10 heavy feints. Its nearly impossible parrying by seeing on the console you have to guess. You can’t interrupt him coz he has HA in nearly everything plus prob do more damage than you so can’t do that. So you have to defend but lose half of your health before coming to end of combo. Then from UB he can go rip GB top light side lights dodge attack or just feint so good luck oh also zone. They should just give him permanent HAOriginally Posted by NightAntilli Go to original post
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Do defeat zerkers, don't go for parries and only try to block.
Once you block one of their lights their chain is interuppted giving you a chance to start your own. Basically stop them from continuing or starting their chain by blocking and attack when possible. The rest is up to your skill as a player.
