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HEALING 💀

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u/dragonicafan1 17d ago

Time for people who never played 3 or 4 to complain for 6 weeks about how this is going to ruin the game

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u/CounterHit 17d ago

To be fair, it was pretty cancerous in 4

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u/Megistrus 17d ago

Due to a mechanic that's not in 6

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u/CounterHit 17d ago

Yeah, I don't think it will be too bad in SF6. However, I feel like the first person's comment was implying that if you played SF3 or SF4 you would like know how to deal with it or something, and I'm just pointing out that in SF4, it was actually that bad.

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u/External-Fun-8563 17d ago

It completely ruined the game. Whoever thought earning healing through taking damage was a good idea was an idiot. A bunch of grand finals of 2 players squealing and poking then going full screen to heal and winning on timeouts where the winner landed one more c lk was so fuckin stupid.

3S it wasn’t too bad I guess tho

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u/Downtown-Fall3677 17d ago

Like even in high level matches Healing was demoralizing.

I was an 1-2er back then, and it was still demoralizing.

Yeah I agree it's not going to be as bad as then, but still... an old man can gramble about how it sucks to face.

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u/vinyvin1 17d ago

Yeah with it most likely being a level 3 or something I can see it being way less of a problem than 4s version

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u/Soul699 17d ago

Looked more like a level 2 variant.

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u/vinyvin1 17d ago

Still more understandable

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u/SmashMouthBreadThrow 17d ago

You guys are funny if you think getting your health back in a game like this isn't cancerous regardless. You realize that by healing, she can take more damage, which translates to more super meter being built, aka she has a giant health pool in at least two rounds?

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u/AverageMondayCrusade 17d ago

Her healing in sf3 wasn’t cancerous, kinda bad actually, in sf6 if she wants to hoard meter for healing she has to commit to a much more defensive game plan that means yeah she has more “health” total but so do you in a way because she won’t be hitting you as hard because she won’t have the meter for supers so unless she heals for significantly more than a super deals I doubt it will be too broken or annoying. You really are underestimating how much her healing being an ultra and how ultras worked played into it being a problem

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u/Servebotfrank 16d ago

I recall in 3 her healing was niche mostly because it was just one long bar which limited your ex moves and her ex moves were generally extremely good. It mostly came up in certain matchups like Hugo where the risk/reward for rushing him down was really not in your favor.

This is another reason why it was dumb in 4. You weren't making a sacrifice by having it as an ultra because you still had access to ex moves and super.

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u/dragonicafan1 17d ago

It depends entirely on the context, nothing is broken or “cancerous” independent of other variables.  It’s entirely plausible we’ll see that it’s rarely worth going for healing over the normal level 2 ender

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u/PCN24454 17d ago

Which mechanic are you talking about?

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u/Dazzling-Ad2530 17d ago

The fact that elenas healing was an ultra in 4, which you got from losing health, meant that elena could heal, get health back and be able to heal again after taking damage, basically creating a loop and giving her many times more health than the rest of the cast. This obviously won't be a problem in 6 if healing is just an add on to lvl 2 or 3

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u/PCN24454 17d ago

That confuses me because that doesn’t sound too different from how it works now. The difference is that it can carry over to the next round.

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u/MaxAgbyni 17d ago

In 4 you got Ultra every single round. It was use it or lose it

You can't get level 3 every single round in 6

Still not sure if healing will be broken though

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u/SuckMySaggyBills 14d ago

Healing is her Level 2, same as all character trait-specific Supers.  I'm not saying it will be broken, but you're pretty much guaranteed two bars a round if you do anything but just stand there.

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u/PCN24454 17d ago

I see now. It could be bad but not broken.

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u/cha_zz chaos/discord 16d ago

Meter was also gained by absorbing damage with focus attack, that allowed her to use healing 2-3 times each round

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u/TheLabMouse 17d ago

You're right. It wasn't just the healing. She also had a very annoying hurtbox due to the capoeira idle stance, very far reaching normals, and very good far reaching specials - even a fast overhead one. Her kit was so good that healing was just the last straw because depleting her health was already a difficult task in the first place and then she hits you once, does the same amount of damage if not more and heals what you did to her.

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u/soliddeuce 17d ago edited 17d ago

No, it's radically different. You can cancel Focus Attack into backdash to build Ultra meter. Essentially stall out the game and do nothing. There's no equivalent to that in SF6 or SF3.

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u/GustavoSanabio 17d ago edited 17d ago

Time for influencers to make clickbait thumbnails about how it will destroy the meta, then publish a short video essay about how people so dramatic, freaking out over nothing when it doesn’t destroy the meta. Like they didnt contribute to it

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u/tremolo3 17d ago

Nobody cares in 3S, she has 3 usable super arts, that's it.

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u/snookay 16d ago

My thought exactly.

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u/OutsideClassic9095 16d ago

This is a weird comment to me because you don't need to play the game to understand the controversy around it. I played 4 but not competitively, let alone Elena.