After playing about a hundred hours of
in patch 1.0.4, I got incredibly frustrated with his lack of follow ups, kill set ups and overall mobility. About 1/3 of my entire playtime was spent playing my friend's
over wifi, and as we both got better, the matchup between his main and mine became increasingly frustrating. So I decided to pick up a new character,
.
Initially I was just playing pika for fun and against megaman, but in order to play pika with any sort of proficiency you need to master quick attack. So I went off to training mode. Then once I got that down I needed to get my combo game up, so that I can capitalize on his mobility more. More time in training mode. Then I needed to improve my neutral so that I can get combo starters more frequently. So there was more study.
Before I realized it my
was completely neglected and I was doing better with
than I ever had before. Play with Pika is so incredibly satisfying. No match-up is overwhelming for the yellow rodent and you know that the tools to win are always available to you. With Pika its as simple as if you out play your opponent consistently, you win. This makes losses way easier to stomach for me, cause when I lose it was because I was out-played and for no other reason. And though I think Pika is top 3 in the game, winning doesn't feel cheap or gimmicky (to me anyways), because every kill is from either a hard read, punish or gimp. You have to work for every win.