MORE of the Best (and worst) Low Tiers

You know a game is cracked when a character with an infinite and one of the best assists in the game is still considered low tier

my favorite part of Thanos is how he looks like some happy go lucky goober in MVC2, like he just enjoys being here

Launcher had one of the funniest patch notes I’ve ever seen because in the big buff patch buffed literally every single normal she had. Her buff list was literally just a move list and it was really funny

Speaking of characters that people think are broken but it could be attributed to the player, nothing tops the actual patch notes for Rivals 1 saying "Forsburn isn't broken, CakeAssault is just that much better than you guys."

I was ready to comment a long and annoying "well actually" post when I saw this start off with Jedah, but you painted a thorough picture and came off well researched. Great stuff, hope to see even more!

I love how Jedah has the Mewtwo hurtboxes. XD

The Vega Jumpscare was fuckin gold bro. As soon as you said "Footsies" about Super Turbo I immediately was thinking "yeah but Vega tho" it's like you read my mind

one of the most interesting ways i've seen a character get nerfed into becoming a low tier is taokaka in bbcf (granted this isn't the only thing but it's the funniest one). her main jump in normal, j.B, literally got replaced by a completely different normal that hits slightly above her. she's a pixie character with no jump in normal lmao

You forgot the major reason why GGML potemkin just can't. HE GETS NO OKI, all his grabs and knockdowns mean nothing because enemies immediately tech after

I think MarlonPie eventually transitioned to playing Ino after the Zato nerfs but you represent the Zato-Viability-Arc very well! Gr8 vid

"SamSho, the epitome of honest" Man I play Ukyo, honesty is not in my lexicon.

I think if you're doing another one of these, you kind of have to cover Jagi, because he's probably the best character in a fighting game to ever be by far the worst character on his entire roster and not even close. Fist of the North Star characters are truly built different, and it's how you can have a character with multiple TODs whose best matchup is 4-6 against another bottom tier. His Fatal KO can miss even if you hit with it. That's how much of a mess he is.

zato is either broken or bad, there is no inbetween. he was broken for most of xx and xrd till the last game for each version. strive i heard he's strong and at best bottom of top 5 till season 3 but idk lol

The talk about how a character like Launcher is bad in a modern game reminded me a lot of Strive Anji in the launch and early patches. The one thing he did have was really high damage off some specific counterhits. But because of the rest of him being so damn lacking you could just play passively on defense and then he'd just be a high risk-very low reward gamble. If you knew the matchup you had no reason to press buttons on defense because he would get ONE single 50/50 and his turn was over, where guessing wrong would only net about 60-80 damage without spending meter. And in the first version that mixup was NOT a mixup. The frame data on the low and the overhead was so significanty different that you could fuzzy block it and never get hit. People just didn't know the matchup and how easy that was to execute.

"...but that's more the result of everyone in ST doing the kind of damage you'd need to pay $7.99 for in most games nowadays" lmao, great line, no notes

Pot's Nitro hook actually returned in Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R in his EX version (the EX versions give a new spin to the character, not necessarily for the better, but they aren't tournament legal).

One thing to note about missing link: A lot of jabs in the game are stupidly slow, except for Chip and Sol. Most of them are 9-10 frames, and Testament’s is 11 frames. Also, a lot of character’s fastet normals are their slash and heavy slash buttons for some reason. None of this makes gg 1 Pot any better or worse, I just thought it was interesting to mention.

Launcher at launch was a zoner where 80% of the cast had access to almost full screen moves. The character i mained, Lost warrior, invalidated alot of her zoning with one move...6S. Fast Fullscreen tracking projectile that triggers an teleport on hit invalidating any projectile she placed.

Cool video! only thing I think you left out on Thanos that's relevant to his tier placement is his lack of air throw, which is a HUGE deal the in context of MvC2. regardless, there was lots of good info and funny jokes in this video. keep up the good work!

Little addition to launcher. She actually had some excellent damage, but ONLY IN THE CORNER, due to her 5s loops. Midscreen her combos were pitifully weak, especially compared to the rest of the cast. Also, if she wanted corner carry she gave up oki. The grand balance patch increased her corner carry by making her 6ms able to otg. Now she could easily route combos into 4s and otg with 6ms, both increasing her midsceen damage and corner carry. She could even convert roundstart hits into corner combos. Combined with j.ms being buffed to make her setplay better, she became an absolute menace.