The Real Inferno
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I don't know.
I'm not too worried about the nerf to be honest.
As @ The Real Inferno said, ppl will want to play more aggressive, but quite frankly, me likes that. It allows me to get more damage on them if they do so. Bc at a higher lvl of play, your projectiles aint much unless you have a gyro in your hand, or you're being very clutch with very small window opportunities to land a gyro/laser. So if someone is trying to get in on me, and with me being a zoning/gtfo character, I think it's going to be ok.
Yeah we have to do like 20+% more dmg to have an easy kill, but:
1.) We do a good deal of damage already. Shouldn't be too hard in most MUs.
2.) This will condition us to get better at out other kill options such as upsmashing out of shield, roll reading, manipulating someone to dodge, gimping, etc.
Maybe we're better off without this crutch.
Maybe I'm insanely optimistic.
Either way, you can nerf ROB, but you'll never nerf the player.
Let's just wait and see how this goes.
I have high hopes.
It's not going to be a good thing when Fox's and Yoshi's frame trap the **** out of us with zero fear of reprisal well into over 100%. The greatest thing about Uthrow was its ability to make people not dive in full force and overwhelm our pretty mediocre defenses (BTW ROB does very low damage compared to most of the cast, and it's much closer to 30-40% more damage for a uthrow kill than 20 on average as it seems to increase at a non-standard rate per weight class). Gyro is less useful as a get away from me option due to having no option but to actually throw it/glide toss instead of being to throw out an attack.
ROB is a zoning character, that's true, but a lot of our worst matchups, the only thing that allowed us to zone them into decent percents was the threat of a decent, safe kill option. High mobility combo characters dont give a **** about anything else we have to throw at them, because they know how easy it will be to bait us. We can't risk them to come in, so we have to throw out a zoning option, which is unsafe against them. ZSS, Fox, Sheik, Yoshi, Falcon. These kinds of characters can dart in and out on us and easily punish with kill moves just because we tried to zone them.
Look, I'm not saying ROB is garbage tier now, but nobody can sit around and say we didn't just get demonstrably worse as a character. You don't lose two amazing tools like this and stay the same while other characters got buffed or stayed the same overall. Objectively speaking, ROB is now a worse character and it was pretty unarguably an undeserved nerf.