Massive
Smash Champion
The removal of dash cancelled blaster certainly hurts (and makes blaster basically worthless), but I'm going to go ahead and back the unpopular opinion of liking her new grabs.
The old ones were useful and had great range, but could leave you in an unfortunate amount of lag frames when you wiffed them. They were easy to punish with a spotdodge and were basically worthless as an option OoS.
ZSS still has a fantastic dashdance, and the new grab's range is actually pretty huge for a non-tether, especially if jump-cancelled.
The alterations to nair are not fantastic, but they do allow you to lead into fair more effectively, which is now a viable (and effective) killing move since the second hit no longer stales. Her forward-b feels like it will become important in the new meta, probably replacing blaster as it has a tendency to shield poke and even with good DI is easy to combo off of.
I feel like this patch stripped away a lot of the gimmicks/set combos people were relying on and is forcing them to revert to/learn more strategic play instead of guaranteed BnB combos and tech. This is probably a good thing for the game in the long run, even if it sucks right now.
The old ones were useful and had great range, but could leave you in an unfortunate amount of lag frames when you wiffed them. They were easy to punish with a spotdodge and were basically worthless as an option OoS.
ZSS still has a fantastic dashdance, and the new grab's range is actually pretty huge for a non-tether, especially if jump-cancelled.
The alterations to nair are not fantastic, but they do allow you to lead into fair more effectively, which is now a viable (and effective) killing move since the second hit no longer stales. Her forward-b feels like it will become important in the new meta, probably replacing blaster as it has a tendency to shield poke and even with good DI is easy to combo off of.
I feel like this patch stripped away a lot of the gimmicks/set combos people were relying on and is forcing them to revert to/learn more strategic play instead of guaranteed BnB combos and tech. This is probably a good thing for the game in the long run, even if it sucks right now.