ItalianStallion
Smash Journeyman
Played a lot again tonight with my smash apprentices (2 guys I'm training). There is no scene here so I just decided to slowly start one. They have improved a lot since I started training them at the beginning of summer, but they still have a ways to go.
Anyway, even though Zard seems to have been slightly nerfed in 2.6 (Won't know til change-log), they still find him to be really hard to play against. They tout his speed, his range, and his ability to have an answer for pretty much any defensive reaction they try.
I also find him to still be uber in 2.6. I need to play harder opponents more often to be sure (Hardest PM opponent I have played was J666), but I still think Zard is amazingly powerful, but he has to be used in the most aggressive way you can in order to get the most out of him. I will be very surprised if I see a Zard player that ends up being top of the line that doesn't go balls out pretty much all the time. I'm not sure there is a character in PM that is made to be played as or more aggressively than Zard is. This is one of the main reasons I love him. My super duper aggressive play-style gets rewarded by using Charizard rather than punished when I use someone like Falco or Falcon.
Anyway, even though Zard seems to have been slightly nerfed in 2.6 (Won't know til change-log), they still find him to be really hard to play against. They tout his speed, his range, and his ability to have an answer for pretty much any defensive reaction they try.
I also find him to still be uber in 2.6. I need to play harder opponents more often to be sure (Hardest PM opponent I have played was J666), but I still think Zard is amazingly powerful, but he has to be used in the most aggressive way you can in order to get the most out of him. I will be very surprised if I see a Zard player that ends up being top of the line that doesn't go balls out pretty much all the time. I'm not sure there is a character in PM that is made to be played as or more aggressively than Zard is. This is one of the main reasons I love him. My super duper aggressive play-style gets rewarded by using Charizard rather than punished when I use someone like Falco or Falcon.