IMO
throws got nerfed too in that many of them leave you very far away from the opponent so a successful wakeup throw is not very rewarding
if you try to back throw someone into the corner you get pushed 3/4th screen away
throws got nerfed too in that many of them leave you very far away from the opponent so a successful wakeup throw is not very rewarding
if you try to back throw someone into the corner you get pushed 3/4th screen away
https://twitter.com/frionel26/status/1462714865655717889
I'm not inherently against the idea that you have to either switch to jump pressure to challenge (riskier/more rewarding) or back up out of throw range to meaty (safer/less rewarding) to play the knockdown game.
In a game like 98 this would be really bad, but XV is a combo game like XIV and XIII were and they've even made more far normals special cancel, so being outside of close range is much stronger and IMO in the previous two games momentum was heavily skewed in favor of offense.
The more combo oriented games have had a big problem where defensive options were not good enough explicitly or were too expensive compared to the reward for offensive options, so I am in favor of trying to wrangle the balance back so that defense is good again.
It's very different from previous KoF games, but IMO KOFXV is an actually new style of KoF, which we haven't gotten in a long time. There was the 98 poke high damage style, then strikers, then tagging, and then the MAX mode games, and XV is none of those.
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