Shugoki has been bottom of the barrel since his nerfs after season 1. Not to meantion the all the other nerfs to him. His kit is so bad compared to the current meta. Most people just assume that hes just going to be removed at this point since the devs dont seem to be interested in maintaining the shugoki player base.

I mean really I would like to hear it from the devs why there are some parts of his kit that STILL haven't been updated.


The biggest one being the 25% extra damage when you lose your 1 hyper armor. This has to be his biggest flaw. Out of any character in the game. This guy does not deserve this.

- It can be removed by just Guard Breaking him. He can counter it and it still gets removed. Meaning every opener against shugoki can be a GB and he cant do anything to punish people for it. He just gets punished. [Also if anyone lands a successful GB any garenteed follow ups get a 25% dmg boost.]

-If he gets attacked while he doesn't have hyper armor it resets the hyper armor recovery time. Seriously in a 1v2 this is a death sentence.

-If he is exhausted his hyper armor takes longer to recover. In addition to the point above this makes his hyper armor seem useless vs any opponent that knows how to abuse it.



His attack speed.

-I get it ubi hes a big boi but can he please have faster heavy attacks. His attacks are already so easy to telegraph that most people can parry his attacks even directly after a headbutt.

-His charged heavy is one of the worst heavy attacks in the game. It has a short range. Its easy to be parried. And its so slow most people can trade 2 lights before it even gets close to hitting them. Not to mentioned if his charged heavy is parried it compleatly drains his stamina.



His speed when exausted.
-Might as well make him immobile with the speed he goes while exhausted.


His Guard Break range
-Its really really bad. You almost have to be point blank to actually use it. [This would actually be justifiable if the rest of his kit was improved.]


His dodge range.
-Sweet jeebus this one is so bad you can dodge and still get hit by attacks that have decent tracking on them. [Aka shield bashes and even guard breaks]


Demons Embrace.


-Its terrible. Its tracking is so bad another shugoki can walk to the side to avoid it. Meaning its one of the only moves that you dont even need to dodge or parry. Its just that bad.
-Its range is so short there is very little chance of it connecting to anyone.
-It cant catch people that you are not locked onto. So if you miss and run RIGHT INTO someone else the game still wont register it.
-If you hit S+GB fast enough you just do a step back and guard break. Instead of doing DE.

Options after GB
-If you do light headbutt the light only deals 4 dmg. [hahahahaha what?]
-If someone hits the guy you guard broke and you do a heavy it does nothing. Im actually pretty sure it doesn't even do damage.



Ubi you have some serious explaining to do with this guy. He has more negatives than positives than any other character in the entire game. And its been this way for a very long time.
I really want to hear from the devs on why its taking so long for him to get ANY attention. Not to mention the only time you do give him attention is when you nerf him again...and again...

Seriously ubi what gives? Do you not even test this character? Its an absolute joke when a patch drops and you can only find reasons to nerf him further.