Is that not the biggest load of crap to anyone who has ever played bottom tier consistently for years and years?
Anyone who has ever played anything below B tier will tell you they dont want their D or Roll tier characters to be S tier, they just want characters to have enough tools to where matchups arent oddly displaced. I hate to bring up Marvel because this is just about fighters in general but you cant say that, for instance, when Seth Killian alluded to making HsienKo faster would be "too much" for her... in what way? When just making her a tad faster would only give her the theory to maybe keep up with the better half of the cast. In the grand scheme of things character balance just adds to character diversity and thats never a bad thing.
Keep in mind if a DEV even cares enough about a fighter to make a clear distinction between tiers and how good character A is in reference to character B, then why would you make a character end up SO BAD that they arent competitive and nobody will play them? The logic crumbles on itself. Low tier characters have no "personality" very rarely do they have a charm about them other than maybe some well known gimmick or exploit that makes them playable, but still doesnt make them good characters.
I never understood this logic, and it seems like devs are citing this more and more in this gaming generation when the FGC is always anticipating tweaks and re-balancing to the cast.
Anyone who has ever played anything below B tier will tell you they dont want their D or Roll tier characters to be S tier, they just want characters to have enough tools to where matchups arent oddly displaced. I hate to bring up Marvel because this is just about fighters in general but you cant say that, for instance, when Seth Killian alluded to making HsienKo faster would be "too much" for her... in what way? When just making her a tad faster would only give her the theory to maybe keep up with the better half of the cast. In the grand scheme of things character balance just adds to character diversity and thats never a bad thing.
Keep in mind if a DEV even cares enough about a fighter to make a clear distinction between tiers and how good character A is in reference to character B, then why would you make a character end up SO BAD that they arent competitive and nobody will play them? The logic crumbles on itself. Low tier characters have no "personality" very rarely do they have a charm about them other than maybe some well known gimmick or exploit that makes them playable, but still doesnt make them good characters.
I never understood this logic, and it seems like devs are citing this more and more in this gaming generation when the FGC is always anticipating tweaks and re-balancing to the cast.