Lawbringer - Have I misunderstood him? | Forums

[Kargish1]

For starters, I'm by no means a great player, I get baited a lot and my reactions are relatively slow, so I'm not really ideal for bringing out the max potential of characters.
I like the big dudes like Raider and Lawbringer, and although I'm a decent Raider player, I can't make Lawbringer work at all.

• I feel like I lack a way to open up my opponent, the shove is the only way to get past people's defenses, but it's extremely slow and you can be knocked out of it relatively easy, plus you can't follow it up if you miss it.
• Combos and flow feel incredibly slow, there are no soft feints and to get to the unblockable hit to force your opponent to react opens you up a lot to parry punishes.
• Despite his slow design, it doesn't seem to reflect in the form of hyper armor or high damage. Quite frankly, I think his heavies hit for low amounts.
• The only real good thing I can make work on Lawbringer are the parry punishes, which are very strong.

Do I just suck with this guy or is he not that good right now? I really wanna make him work somehow, so I'd love to hear if it's a git gud issue or a balance issue for the most part.

[Csodaszarvas_G]

Hello there!

I'm a Rep 46 Lawbringer main and what you said about him is quite accurate, so I don't think you misunderstood Lawbringer. You are actually right about him and (intentionally or not) you just described what's the problem with him.

His original design doesn't fit into the game after the CCU. He feels a bit slow and static and he lacks any kind of pressure from neutral. His chain pressure is also quite bad because of his attack pattern. You need to feint a lot of attacks if you don't want to get parried, but if you do that you won't get to the unblockables which could force out a reaction from your enemy.

To be honest I don't quite have an answer to your question. You see, I can't tell if you using him in a wrong way because I didn't watch you play him. I also can't say that his design is outright bad because he has some good stuff in his kit (like all of his parry punishes, the short recoveries on shove and his zone). I would say that your problem is a bit of both, since it requires a really different mind-set and play style to play LB effectively (especially after an aggressive and kinda mix-up intensive character like Raider). It takes some time to get used to. Keep practicing.

P.S.: I created a thread which is about the problems of LB and also about possible solutions. If you interested please take a look, and feel free to write down your own ideas/thoughts about him. I will link the thread for you.

https://forums.ubisoft.com/showthrea...ds-some-buffs)

Thanks for reading, have a nice day!