Interview Time! Episode 1: Hawkeye

[Synraii]

^ Gloomy right now I see.
=)

 

[WuHT]

Good interview! And again : thanks for looking out for our raphael brothers

 

[Azazel]

Good interview! And again : thanks for looking out for our raphael brothers

Love your new avatar

 

[Shemy]

Tbh I think Tira's pretty strong.

I imagine certain players have revised their opinion that Natsu was overnerfed in the patch following this result...

Congratulations Hawkeye, a great performance against other top players, looking forward to your forthcoming matches.

I'd say that to play Tira in high level would require the player to overcompensate on her many weaknesses. I mean her JS state has at most like 50 damage combos, the randomness factor of her (now made completely random due to the patch) can be annoying at points and her most damaging combo I think (barring wall combos) is like <100 damage, thats just off the top of my head.

But its just not in terms of how weak/strong she is.

I mean Natsu is still my main despite the nerfs she received because I enjoy her playstyle and it didn't change too drastically, she's still a very high tier player.

For me personally, the nerfs to Tira (not being fully able to control stance despite the use of meterage) + some oddities that don't make sense (take JS 66B BE combo with no stance change, it does the same amount of damage as a standard 66B combo near enough, it kind of makes spending the meter useless unless you want to *gamble* on the chance of switching and higher damage, and that to me is not fun to play nor good character design, spending meter should MEAN something, not be a gamble) well the nerfs to Tira made her not fun to play and I honestly don't see what direction they want her to go in. I liked the idea of pre-patch, you get some control over Tira at the cost of meter, and spending meter mixing up combos between JS/GS really seemed fun.

I can't speak from a pure expert perspective on how good/bad she is against others, I'll take your word for it she's strong (personally I think she's playable and its the player behind her overcompensating), but I can speak in saying that the patch made her not fun to play, at least for me and from what I've read many others.

Anyway I didn't mean to go off on a rant or off topic, hoping to see more Natsu/Tira play in later tournaments!

 

[KowtowRobinson]

Good to see some players understand that movement still works, it just doesn't work for free.