Critical Edge: A Brief History of Banning...

[Heaton]

So here's a question...what if Edgemaster and Kilik have access to D.Jin's moveset?

Assuming that Edgemaster and Kilik aren't banned themselves - an entirely different issue that no one has even brought up yet - it shouldn't be a problem, since mimics A) have a standard hitbox, and B) are expected to mess with the hitboxes of a few combos, techtraps, etc; it is a strength and weakness of being mimics to sometimes do things a little bit differently from the style they're mimicking.

 

[soakrates]

So here's a question...what if Edgemaster and Kilik have access to D.Jin's moveset?

They don't.

 

[Synraii]

Assuming that Edgemaster and Kilik aren't banned themselves - an entirely different issue that no one has even brought up yet - it shouldn't be a problem, since mimics A) have a standard hitbox, and B) are expected to mess with the hitboxes of a few combos, techtraps, etc; it is a strength and weakness of being mimics to sometimes do things a little bit differently from the style they're mimicking.

Case in point Mokujin in Tekken, who has some unsafe attacks that are safe if it is Mokujin performing them.

 

[Heaton]

Case in point Mokujin in Tekken, who has some unsafe attacks that are safe if it is Mokujin performing them.

Not to mention, breaks juggles that normally work on bigs (JACK, Kuma) when mimicking them, while also enabling juggles that wouldn't work on smaller characters (Xiayou, I forget who else is small). So depending on who they're mimicking, the mimic might actually have a different match-up against whoever they're fighting than if the actual character was playing the match-up.

 

[Synraii]

Yeah. I'm actually tempted to rep a mimic if they're legal in minor tournaments.