DelugeFGC
Smash Stick Space Cowboy
Sure, you see the guy with a Falcon Punch avatar and the string of Helmet icons under his name, you get the idea of my bias. Getting that out of the way now.
I think Falcon is totally slept on in the current meta, and because people weren't immediately able to pick him up and do super well with right away.. people just assumed he was a mid-tier. I feel people also made a lot of preemptively negative assumptions about Cloud as well. As time has went on and I kept coming back to the character over and over, despite telling myself Cloud was ALWAYS gonna be a way better pick and I was stupid for doing this.. stuff changed. All those whiffed combos started linking, especially when I learned more buffer tech like attack cancel RAR's to aid combo game, you can do sickening **** with his UAir and it's still one of the most spammable aerials in the game. His BAir is nice, not as nice as it could be, but still very nice. The knee is fine, despite what some say. Falcon's 'completely neutered' combo game has blossomed into something beautiful the more I've stuck with him, and he's starting to feel very familiar to another iteration of Falcon I played, but I won't get into that as it's totally beside the point.
Don't get me wrong, I do think Falcon could use a few buffs.. but right now I'm starting to agree with what Fatality has said about him recently. He's more execution / mechanically intensive than most other characters, and a LOT of what constitutes being able to do consistently well with him is MU experience, hours of labbing, getting out there and playing.. etc. I know you will improve with any character, even low tiers, if you stick with them.. I'm no fool.. but I still can't help but feel like we've been a little too hard on the Cap'n the past few months. I don't think he's a glorious top tier slayer or anything, but I do think he's sitting around the lower end of High Tier and has definite room for growth in the meta, especially with buffs.
Buffs Falcon could use:
His dash being tweaked a bit
Raptor boost hitbox fixed
Rockcrocking removed
More kill power on BAir
Slightly further range on dash grab
I think Falcon is totally slept on in the current meta, and because people weren't immediately able to pick him up and do super well with right away.. people just assumed he was a mid-tier. I feel people also made a lot of preemptively negative assumptions about Cloud as well. As time has went on and I kept coming back to the character over and over, despite telling myself Cloud was ALWAYS gonna be a way better pick and I was stupid for doing this.. stuff changed. All those whiffed combos started linking, especially when I learned more buffer tech like attack cancel RAR's to aid combo game, you can do sickening **** with his UAir and it's still one of the most spammable aerials in the game. His BAir is nice, not as nice as it could be, but still very nice. The knee is fine, despite what some say. Falcon's 'completely neutered' combo game has blossomed into something beautiful the more I've stuck with him, and he's starting to feel very familiar to another iteration of Falcon I played, but I won't get into that as it's totally beside the point.
Don't get me wrong, I do think Falcon could use a few buffs.. but right now I'm starting to agree with what Fatality has said about him recently. He's more execution / mechanically intensive than most other characters, and a LOT of what constitutes being able to do consistently well with him is MU experience, hours of labbing, getting out there and playing.. etc. I know you will improve with any character, even low tiers, if you stick with them.. I'm no fool.. but I still can't help but feel like we've been a little too hard on the Cap'n the past few months. I don't think he's a glorious top tier slayer or anything, but I do think he's sitting around the lower end of High Tier and has definite room for growth in the meta, especially with buffs.
Buffs Falcon could use:
His dash being tweaked a bit
Raptor boost hitbox fixed
Rockcrocking removed
More kill power on BAir
Slightly further range on dash grab
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