I can't list every character as I don't play most of the cast enough to really say what they need on the next patch, but from the ones I've mastered, this are the ones that need changes:
Sub-Zero (General):
- Either B33-Iceball connects on the whole cast midscreen, or it doesn't, I don't care which option they pick, but a decission has to be made. You can't properly balance a character if you don't know if he's supposed to have a midscreen meterless 50/50 game or not. Take the decission, then see what he would need after it.
Sub-Zero (Cryomancer):
- Remove the second hit of Air Hammer and increase the damage of the first one and also the frame advantage.
The first hit is currently a restand (tested in the corner or against Sorcerer Quan Chi armoring in the air during the second hit) and I think this is what the moves needs to be useful, to stagger the opponent for a 50/50. Cryomancer has good combos but a very hard time trying to use them, the air hammer even if it was made safe is still one of his worse aerial options (it jumped from not useful and suicidal to just not useful when it was made safe) so its like it wasn't there.
- Make an EX version of Air Hammer, with armor and a bit faster that works like the current one (the restand hit and the splash mid hit) but the second hit launches for a combo.
This way at least the variation gets some aerial mojo and slightly more options to start a proper assault as he currently has very few ways and relies too much un punishing after good reads.
- Make F122 place the opponent a bit further, or either make B2 always launch forward. Currently the way F122 places the opponent, B2 will randonly launch the opponent the opposite way.
Sub-Zero (Unbreakable):
- The parry should have less recovery by default, still unsafe on miss, but not a suicide letter.
- While the aura is up, the parry should destroy the aura in exchange of being safe or absorbing 1 hit during the recovery frames (like crystaline tremor but only while using the parry).
Unbreakable needs a way to remove the aura before combos (the recent patch introduced a personality crisis where you can't use the aura defensively if you want good combos, but you're supposed to pick the variation to keep the aura on) and parry needs something to make it reliable (all other variations with parries add a huge lot more than unbreakable), this solves both.
Kenshi (General):
- Most of his strings need a revision as they're in a deplorable state right now.
- EX push should be safe across all variations.
Kenshi (Kenjutsu):
- Change the damage scaling of DB1 back to 0.8 (since the latest patch it has 2 damage scaling applications on a single hit and the damage is laughable, specially considering it's ultra hard to connect anything after it) and make it waaaaaay easier to combo after (enough frames to connect a 43, right now you can barely connect a D1 without risking a drop).
- Make B2 plus on block instead of suicidal. The move is uuuultra slow, not cancelable and not even the longest reach (F2 is OH, cancelable, faster and has better reach). If at least it were plus on block (which makes sense with how hard the animation hits) it wouldn't be 100% garbage designed to declare you're intentionally losing the game.
- The first hits of EX DF1 should restand the opponent or not count for gravity penalty so B32 and F32 can combo with it.
, or decrease the amount of it.
