I'm just baffled at this point. I've scrolled through twitter and seen a bunch of stuff, a lot of which is ludicrous (rams s sword throw doesn't go away on hit for some reason or something, Dizzy ice field has some really fucked up interactions with momentum which leads to stuff like full screen pilebunker or kara wild throw, and Chipp can carry you in his loving beefy arms from one corner to the other with tightrope) and it seems like most everyone got buffed. Some of it looks really fun.
And in the midst of all of this, for seemingly no reason, they tied Axl to a chair, killed Megumi in front of him, shot him with a full security skyfish, and pissed on his corpse for good measure.
Like, yeah, they shot some other characters, but they weren't in contention for "one of the worst in the game." Even if you think Axl is better than everyone says he is and that people are downplaying, they buffed Goldlewis of all fucking people
I know it might seem like overreacting to people who don't play the character but you need to understand that rainwaters vacuum is *critical* to basically 3/4ths of Axl's gameplan. It's in most of his optimal combos in the corner, it's what lets him do his sideswitch off of CH c.s. in the corner, it's a shitty BMF to occasionally smack someone doing something stupid, it was incredibly important for him
AND IMPORTANTLY WAS REALLY NOT HARD TO PLAY AROUND. It has a frustratingly small hitbox, 24f startup, and on block is a whopping +3! Like, okay, if they had removed the vacuum on block and made it a little more plus so you could use it to push people away from you but KEPT THE VACUUM ON HIT, that would be fine, that could be interesting, whatever, still undeserved, if you're locked in a rainwater blockstring while Axl is cornered I'm gonna be honest that is your fucking fault and you need to hold that shit
But no. It's unfathomable how angry it makes me. It's ludicrous, seriously. Take all his vacuum and give it away to someone else (due to BT cancels you can get pickups like c.s. > 248H > 624H, c.s.. genuinely they gave Goldlewis a rainwater vacuum style move it's unreal)
Fucking
Christ
Alive.
