Just watched the vid with tom talking about cyrax. Im not sure i like his idea on how to fix the reset. From my experience, the reason the reset happens is because the opponent hits the ground whilst being juggled for a certain amount of time, this is what creates the reset, because the game thinks the combo is over and starts again.
In my opinion, the best way to fix the reset without nerfing any of his moves is to extend the amount of time that the opponent can stay on the ground whilst being juggled before a reset can occur. its very simple to fix actually.
This is exactly what I suggested before. The duration before the reset happens after being chest sawed or netted (basically, when the person hits the ground) just needs to be slightly longer than it takes for the bomb to explode. That way NJP into the 2nd half of the combo is cut off, and can't happen because the reset would never come. Still there would be the 59% BnB 1 meter that people were doing before, but there wouldn't be the ability to punish someone with two combos just bcause you netted them.
I totally agree that it sucks to have to re-learn a character when changes happen, but this type of fix would mean you wouldn't have to do that.
Guys... the only thing more ridiculous than these gigantic resets is expecting them to stay in the game. I was playing this guy last night.. in the third round I got him netter with no meter at around 65% health... I was like, "damn, no meter, that sucks.. good game." He's like, "what?"
Yea.... that's just plain retarded.
Also, I don't think anyone suggested anywhere that Cyrax needed buffs. What was that about?
If you want to rely on ridiculous tactics that will almost certainly be fixed in one way or another, you should learn other characters as a bac up, or your only means of competing will be gone and you'll get frustrated. I don't agree with Tom's solution, but it also doesn't make sense to bash him for playing a different character at Evo instead of continuing to use something that's so ridiculous that it's probably the one thing that's guaranteed to be removed.