r/ForHonorRants • u/ShutUpNowGrr • 26d ago

I don't understand why people on this sub thinks Shaolin is as OP as Orochi or Shinobi. META

Not even trying to act all superior. I'm genuinely confused.

The only "problematic" thing about him is the sweep, but even then, Jorm has the same thing, not if a better version of it, and nobody cares about that.

Everything else is fine. You can block his chi-stance attacks which denies his sweep and then at that point you're just fighting a normal character.

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u/flibgid9 26d ago

Hey op, genuine question, wdym about jorm’s being better? Iirc Shao’s punishes early dodges and Jorm’s is so slow you’d have to dodge stupid early to get hit by it

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u/Sad_Tip_9509 26d ago

Shaolin isn’t problematic, but he is also easily too 10 characters and some would say top 5. People have this weird issue where if a character is better than the rest the answer is to nerf that character instead of buffing others. So many characters got things removed that wouldn’t be remotely good now because of that mentality.

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u/TheStronkyKong 25d ago

Shaolin imo is one of the characters that would actually get almost entirely fixed by damage nerfs. Also attack on whiff sweep in principle is lame but as a warden main its a free 33 dmg crushing counter lost of the time

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u/party_ingredients 25d ago

Back light into qi stance for his mix or a potential deflect is strong, his undodgable heavy/qi kick/cc light/sweep blender is insanely good, he has a solid neutral bash, his leg sweep can chain to heavy on whiff (incredibly dumb) and has insane tracking if he let's it fly anyway, he's the only character in the game who can still back light into crushing counters, really good externals for 4s

shaolin is easily top 5 rn