NRS has created a dreadful environment.
Preeeetty much. I won't even try to play Deadshot online because I know 90% of people won't put up with it.
Although (RANT AHEAD), this might be the most interested I've ever been in the "first big patch after EVO" scenario, because if it's this much of a hostile jungle now, I can only imagine what waits on the other side. In NRS's defense, the last patch they gave MKX made it arguably the best it had ever been (unless you mained Lackey Torr), so it isn't unreasonable to hold out hope that things will pan out as time goes on. But with that being said, I am still and will continue to be dumbfounded as to how Brainiac and Swamp Thing were allowed into this game in their current states.
In both cases, even if they were going to end up low tier regardless, the things that make them both appealing enough to put up with the struggle are barely functional. Brainiac's Trait is almost useless, which makes his keepaway/you-have-to-knock-down-the-fortress style design completely self defeating. Why have all these get off me options if either A, you have no way to drum up a life lead to force them in, or B, you're going to get outzoned like no one's business?
And as far as Swamp Thing, whoever designed his Whip attacks needs to find a new line of work. I don't get how you go from Lasher/Shirai Ryu Takeda, where anything that was whip-related was consistent and effective, to ST who has garbage for buttons to begin witb AND has to redirect the whips according to distance AND it doesn't matter because the damn things STILL whiff/don't combo in most cases. Abigail's Garden is literally the Bitch Stewie version of Erron Black's Caltrops; a completely disfigured, cutely colored shell of what the move is supposed to acomplish. Like, it really pisses me off. I WANTED to main Swamp Thing. I was all friggin' set. And then this is what we ended up with.
