Pk NEEDS A BUFF | Forums

[EvoX.]

I fought alot of high-Rep and high-MMR PK's (e.g. Setmyx) and ALL they did was backdodge and Zone. Nothing else.

Implying you stand a chance against Setmyx either way...

[Charmzzz]

Implying you stand a chance against Setmyx either way...

I had some kills on him in Dom, yes. But why is that even important in a "discussion" which Character should get reworked next? I am only giving examples of how the Top 2.5% Player got such a high Winrate on PK in S4. And 3 of those things got nerfed with S5:

1. Backdodge nerfed to 800ms from 500ms
2. No GB after parry, PK lost access to her 38 / 55 Damage parry punish
3. Number 2. also nerfed her option select indirectly: Zone input is Light+Heavy. When you press it you will parry OR Zone if the enemy feints. Since you do not get the GB on parry anymore her option select is not as valuable as it was before.

[Alustar.exe]

Yeah, just to piggy back on Charmzzz, I stopped playing peacekeeper in favor of shaman as my go to assassin simply because PK did not have the lethality players think she does. She's a decent counter attacker, and her zone is nice, but get too aggressive with her and you will get wrecked by most competent players using a hero with static guard. PK has so few options that she is practically a niche fighter. It got to a point I would focus on running the map to grab a person from behind, stab him a few times, throw them and run off and let my teammate finish the job, while I go search for another teammate in combat to do the same thing.

[Aurockson]

So some of you are saying Pk's strongest hit is only 33 damage??? Every heavy guarantees a bleed followup bringing her overheads up to 49 from neutral.... And LB does not have a 50 damage attack from neutral and even if he did, he'll never land a top heavy even on gb. Pk is fast af with the fastest dodge attacks in the game guaranteeing 40 damage and take zero skill since they include huge iframes and she can't even be gb out of them forcing you to deflect/parry them in most cases. She's practically unpunishable aside from deflect/parry. Her recovery times are amazing, she can miss heavies and you still can't get a free gb. Her zone is lightning fast and can be feinted so it's obnoxiously safe. Her heavy soft feint into gb lets her bait light parries then when she lands the gb she gets 2 bleed stabs into a potential wallsplat punish for over 70 damage cumulatively. Basically her oos punish. Even if you think she can be turtled out (which she really can't bc of her gb soft feint) she can turtle herself and be one of the most dangerous heroes in the game. She definitely needs another move, I'm talking rework direction. But straight buff? She's obnoxious enough to run into in duels as is. And yes I can beat them, but if I face a good one might as well set the controller down bc she's going to turtle around you the whole game.

You keep saying she and use the term PK but I think you mean cent... What other hero gets a 70 damage wallsplat...?