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Oh boy, people already hate Orochi, and this is a suggestion for a small buff.
Right now the game has gotten much faster, and Orochi's Riptide Strike has almost become obsolete. Why? Because people can just use a second attack to knock you out of your counterattack move before you have a chance to retaliate.
400ms lights beat both Orochi's RS AND Nobushi's HS, and besides Nobushi Orochi is another one of those characters that really suffers, because it cripples his ability to counterattack.
I suggest, to avoid turning Riptide Strike as a useless, VERY situational move, it should get Hyper Armor, so that at least you will be able to trade with fast attacks instead of basically getting stunned out of your retaliation
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It’s weird that you acknowledge rts as a counter attack but want to buff it to be an offensive attack. If you get light attacked out of your riptide strike it means you’re spamming it offensively.
If you light, light, light into riptide strike (Which more than half of Orochis do) you become predictable and people will know to do a double light after your light spam.
What you’re encountering is a failure to use the move as intended and you’ve gotten used to playing against low level players who don’t know how to defend themselves. The only way to double light somebody out of a riptide strike is to read it, so don’t try to say it happens everytime (usually just everytime after the second time you do it if you aren’t mixing up)
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No main, I think you misunderstood what I wanted to say.
I use Riptide Strike as a counterattack because going in from neutral is asking to be parried, BUT, if you use it as a counterattack, for esample by wanting to counter a light or a heavy, if the opponent spams his combo, like light-light or even heavy-light in some cases, he will hit you during your animation, knocking you out of the attack just before you should hit them, due to Riptide strike having no Iframes nor hyper armor. It's very frustrating, because now spam beats counterattacks due to sheer speed of the first in comparison to the second.
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So basically you are an Orochi, complaining that light spam is faster than your counter move. Hmmmm
Welcome to For Honor: The new meta.
Forgive if i dont feel for you after watching Orochi do this very thing against warlord, lawbringer, raider, shugoki, nobushi, highlander, shaman, gladiator... Etc...
Get in line while waiting for your buff... Its a long line.
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While I disagree with OP, I can understand him
The thing is orochi rework is so bad, it's all about 400 ms light centric. It's the only viable tool for competitive 1vs1.
And while I'm an Orochi main myself, I think it's very boring.
I WOULD LOVE to give that third 400 ms (top) light for a better Riptide and Storm Rush.
I WOULD LOVE to use the other moves of my kit
But I can't because they are not good enough.
So don't blame players, blame the poor quality rework
