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How to fix gladiator:
Make toe stab unpunishable on reaction and punishable on read. Reduce damage to 9 if you really want to. That is all that is needed.
Reflex guard changes as intended. Reflex guard will still be inferior mostly because of lag/desynch hitting through active blocks. No other reason really
Why are the current changes not great:
The light speed is entirely irrelevant. The difference in animation for chain heavy vs chain light is way too obvious. Block top parry side on reaction. The only thing this does is get more bad players to complain about lights and give people with bad internet a reason to play gladiator (which they still wont because theres better characters for that).
The speed on toe stab during OOS is irrelevant and heres why:
Jorm has 600ms neutral knockdown and 500ms combo knockdown. Both of these are largely easily dodged by decent players. Gladiator only gets the 600ms version.
Gladiator currently has a "mixup" with his unblockable. The people who were previously able to parry his unblockable mixup on reaction will have absolutely no problem dodging a 600ms bash and the people who couldnt deal with the UB mixup will get hit by it. It adds nothing to the character that isnt already there (unless there is some sort of combo extender for OOS GB with the 600ms toestab that makes his OOS gb slightly higher damage - i dont think that is actually what is intended with this change based on the warriors den anyway).
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