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I played a lot of Black Prior today (I was wrong when I thought pk generates lots of hate messages, I received like 10 kys messages in duels with my prior), and I got an idea for Aramusha viability.
1. Blade Blockade can be used not just from neutral, but to cancel a recovery from Tempest (excluding missed chainfinishers). Furthermore, it can be held for an indefinate time, and of course it drains no stamina while held. Maybe slow movement should be allowed too.
2. All counters should be allowed during Blade Blockade as active attacks: Ring the bell could be a low damage 400ms attack that does not chain, but the blind should provide some means to start an offense. The kick is obviously a 600ms bash that does wallsplat but otherwise only drains some stamina and maybe gives a stun. And Aramusha would finally receive an unblockable too this way.
3. I would also add a Tempest Light finisher to him: 500ms, high damage light that comes from the same direction as the former attack, which would stop people always predicting Aramusha's chain-based offense. And maybe some 15 damage dodge light against bashes would be nice.
Of course, with that, the high damage profile should go, a normal 15 damage should be the only thing he gets on a heavy parry, his own heavies should be 30 damage, the finisher 35, and maybe the unblockable 38. And he should get a standardized guardbreak vulnerability too.
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