Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate

Kokoro has been weakened again. Somewhat minor changes (all her negatives on hit got worse -3 to -4) and the block stun on P+K being +1 is now -8.

Marie Rose got some pretty nice buffs and a quite a few new move strings. She's even safer now.

Tengu's 3KK is gone and replaced by a new 3KK. 66K has tracking now.

Momiji's 1P is now a mid. Probably the biggest change to her arsenal. She may be a lot harder to scrub with online now.

Helena's changes are... tricky. Safer, more damage on some strings, less damage and less advantage on other attacks.

Ayane has quite a few changes here. It looks like a few things got tweaked downwards and they improved her air-combo game as a result. So a tad weaker on the neutral game and stronger on combos.

Bass is straight up buffs.

Bayman has a bunch of improvements too.

Zack is even better now.

Lei Fang has a few minor buffs and a few things changed that may have been more frustrating to deal with.

Jann Lee got a few more buffs.

Tina got buffs. More or less. 4K seems better?

Hayabusa doesn't seem to have too many improvements, if any at all. Looks like mostly some system fixes here.


On a system whole fix, it looks like they addressed the issue with some OHs not working against certain 3Ps and/or other mids. They also addressed they incredibly wide window on CB follow-ups for several characters. Doesn't look like they fixed Kokoro's though.

That's about all I can translate.
 
As with any update, there are buffs and nerfs. Some make sense, others do not. The mind of a designer works differently than the mind of the player.

This is a rather positive update across the board however. About 80% of the changes are either tradeoffs or buffs.


Of course, this isn't going to stop people from focusing only on the 20% which were negative. End of the world, and all that.
 
Yeah, pretty much.

I'm sure everyone is going to complain about Christie or Ayane or Gen fu and the lack of tuning to make them less top tier, but eh, the don't really feel that difficult to deal with.
 
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