5 NRS Characters That Received DEVASTATING Nerfs 

Well now you know what you’ve gotta do. Characters Who became way stronger AFTER a buff

I remember when Scorpion had 4/5 top 8 placements at CEO, but because he didn't land 1st place, it was seen as "See, he isn't that good, what is all the complaining about?"

Scorpion in the first Injustice has to be the most egregious nerf for sure. One month, broken beyond belief and then a month later, gutted like a fish.

I’ve never seen 1 patch completely slaughter a single character more than that Scorpion patch. That’s the fastest I’ve seen a character flip from top to bottom

Scorpion did his job in Injustice. Sold DLC like nuts and then nerfed after the quota was met.

Scorpion got the Blizzard treatment

I think MK 1 Sbuzero should've been included in the list 'cause after the release of the game, NRS butchered the character

The only other character I’m aware of that’s been gutted as badly as IJ Scorp is probably Sean from Street Fighter 2nd impact going into 3rd Strike

I remember what a sad day it was when Supergirl got nerfed. One of the rare instances where I dropped a character because of nerfs.

I actually remember giving Injustice 2 a chance because I thought Deadshot's trailer looked cool. Then I played the game at launch as him, and was hated by everyone until I stopped wanting to play, lol.

0:58 I'm gonna stop you right there, it's MK11 Geras. He got nerfed EVERY. SINGLE. PATCH. All of them. There is no way there's a character with more nerfs by pure numbers. It's Geras, hands down. And all they were able to do was drop him from +S to +A. He was THAT fundamentally solid and played MK1 that well. And of kourse, who kould forget the nerfs that accidentally buffed him, like the infamous change to sandtrap's KB requirement that allowed you to effectively get it on kommand whenever you wanted rather than it being in your opponent's kontrol? Very fitting for the reanimating strongman!

A little surprised MKX Alien wasn’t mentioned

I'm here to once again Request Competitive history of Liu Kang

You forgot to mention the Mk1 Subzero

VIDEO GAMES!!!!!!!

I love how, when they Specify NRS instead of MK, you know Injustice is coming up

Geras also was the only character who has his MOVEMENT nerfed. Ouch. 😂 Great video ggs

Love looking at these had no idea during mkx and games b4 and the changes

You guys are always posting interesting MK content

Geras is an interesting one though. Even after the nerfs he received, till this day he plays MK11 very well. Yes, he was used a lot less in tournament but he’s still solid. Btw, I really liked this video man👍🏻 I’d love to see a video about most significant buffs in Mortal kombat games. Doesn’t mean that characters shot up to top tier but they were helped drastically. Just some ideas top of my head: Injustice1 Bane venom buff reworked to add armor to specials, which would carry over to Inj2 Commando Kano’s new 22 string and b14 MB launcher in MKX . MKX Takeda gaps in his mid strings reworked MkX Jason dmg buff reworked to break armor. Mk11 Kollektor changes to 44 string Mk11 Kano changes to f12b2 string, changes to chemical burn Mk11 Noobs low slide buff

The idea that a game had a competitive scene but no one knew what frame data was, where as all the other popular fighting games have been talking about frames for god knows how long is kind of hilarious.

Meanwhile, Jason and Tremor just chilling seeing the nerf chaos

I think Kung Jin Bojutsu would’ve been worth mentioning. He went from literally number one in MKX (half the Fatal 8 tournament was bojutsu Kung Jin) to bottom 5 in the game.

Adjustments can be changed to appearing with Kano and characters to appearing at the tournament appearance

This one must have required some serious research to get specifics on patches and community reactions going back over ten years. Great video!

I almost forgot how beast-like Geras was in MK11..

i mained deadshot in injustice 2 and picked up supergirl because that matchup was so bad and figured i'd fare better in a mirror, then deadshot got nerfed about 80 times and i was like "i guess i'll just play supergirl now" but i always missed deadshot and was sad that he got decimated

Great vid

Love seeing Injustice getting some attention! Keep up the great videos!

8:53 The Nerf-ening!

MK9 Kano brings back memories. I was a Kano main and he was an absolute beast online. MK9 was something special. My online Ranked record was like 700/150

Nice vid Ketchup

I hope to see competitive history of Shang Tsung some day.

Let's not forget deadshot also had really stupid mix ups that could lead to combos. A common complaint was he had too good of a close range game for how good his zoning was.

Flame Fist Liu Kang with armored EX FBF4 and shaolin flame cancel without meter 🤤 good old times

I’ve never zoned with deadshot I’m a rush down type of player and that hasn’t failed with him

You forgot about Sonya in MK11

Can’t believe they nerfed IJ Scorpion and Deadahot but left Martian Manhunter and Starfire the same

whats the music playing during the kano segment?

Crazy Kano ball

Somewhere, Tom Brady is seething over the overlooked day 1 patch that killed sub zero's B2 reset in Mk9

As soon as you mentioned deadshot i nearly choked on my soup!!!😨

Good old Somberness. The legend. I miss MK9.

15:18 MK1 Sub Zero's felt that

I remember when the Geras nerfs happened and a lot of people regarded them as buffs since they gave him a lot of Krushing Blows at the end of combos. I didn't realize that the competitive community actually regarded them as the nerfs they really were

Can you do Amazing Buffs next?

Wasn't there an MKX major where something like 6 players out of the top 8 were using Kobu-jutsu Tanya? Then one patch later we almost never saw Tanya again.

As a casual Deadshot player, i just think he has some cool looking combos and like his character here. And not just zoning i mean like actual combos he and Dr Fate are just stylish for no reason

Mk11 sonya also was sad. She was so cool in the early days then died after early nerfs, even took life away from her and never gave it back. And yeah they hit supergirl pretty hard.

To be honest 1:13 is the reason why the tourney scene can be kind of repetitive since you usually see the same characters over and over again. Its rare if anyone picks a character they actually like.

I don’t think I ever saw such a brutal fall from grace quite like what happened to Injustice Scorpion. I get he was strong early on, but I feel they went a bit far.

I would say mkx tanya and Quan chi also had many many nerfs that were huge

Great NRS signatures 👌 👏 this title tells me all the fun characters NRS has killed

TO THIS DAY!!!!

Injustice Scorpion was basically erased out of existence lol

If different versions of the same game count, I would argue the nerfs to Sean Matsuda from SF3 Second Impact to Third Strike give Injustice Scorpion's title of most nerfed character in fighting game history a run for its money. Grabted, he didn't receive as many nerfs as Scorpion did, but the ones he got were way worse than anything NRS did to Hanzo. I'm talking bs on the level of removing the ability to combo from one of his specials, making a projectile super's start up so slow that opponents could react to the screen freeze and flash effect with a jump in and punish it, and, I'm not making this up, having one of his specials be unsafe *on hit.* Some people who only played Third Strike used to think he was designed as a joke or meme character, when it fact he had been the undisputed best character in the game a version prior.

Nerfs create nostalgia.

Are there dramatic buffs?

Cryomancer sub in mkx?

Geras remained broken despite all the ‘nerfes’. His broken d1 was free to mash against almost all the characters, its 6 frames startup was the issue, not the recovery frames in any way

i know a character who was horribly nerfed, not gameplay/damage output-wise, but more so designwise

I understand that money is on the line and to NOT pick these characters when your opponents will be is putting yourself at a disadvantage... But it just goes to show that people will always flock to the most braindead, overpowered character. The ONLY time I accept the strength of a character is when they are difficult to use. I remember being so pissed off at all the Kabals in MK9 that I decided to try him out. He was HARD to use. I kinda shut my mouth after that.

Damn,still remember how they cut my Scorpion...poor Hanzo

Damn feels good to be early

what song is this at 0:13

Erron black in both games he has been is has been abused by nerfs compared to his day 1 releases.

hmm I feel like Johnny or Jacqui is gonna be mentioned

I thought Mk11 Sheeva would be here. They murdered that character

Peacemaker can join this list now

I'm comment number 11 and like number 101 so please answer this question for me. What the background music track in this video? It's hitting me hard in the nostalgic part of my brain but I can't place it beyond a ps1 ps2 era game, maybe Marvel vs Capcom or something. Anyways, Please tell me. Huge fan of your channel and FGC tournament commentry .

Competitive history of Scorpion!

Deadshot and Superman in injustice 2 genuinely made me question nrs’ ability to make a game. I genuinely adore injustice 2 but I can’t understand how they thought the zoning in the game was acceptable. Injustice 2 was the first fighting game I ever went “pro” with. I won an injustice gods among us tournament, I have a lot of love for the franchise but the zoning is unforgivable bruh.

The biggest nerf though bar none is Shinnok. Going from literally untouchable to…..yeah…

At least some of them are still fun to use in single player.

Hii big fan❤

Mk11 Sheeva comes to mind

Mk11 Geras was so badass

Would of loved to see Freddy Kruger

I imagined mk11 Sonya would've been in the video

I think characters get heavily nerfed when their strengths are showcased in either tournaments or online matches

HM : Inj2 Aquaman

I thought I would see MKX Tanya ... Oh, well ..

Before watching I’m gonna guess Acidic alien Inj 2 deadshot

Sonya mk11 killed me bruh

Shao Kahn has FIVE L’s throughout just MK1 alone absolutely ridiculous

what about sheeva’s stomp nerf in mk11? 😭😭 no one has ever used her again after that

Dealing with Inj2 the 1st couole months was stressful 😅

Well, Geras did fell from grace, but like from Top 3 to Top 5?

So, I'm ignorant here, but when he says Scorpion was hard to block, did Injustice not function on block button? Couldn't you just hold high block and auto turn around?

Was honestly expecting Acidic Alien for MKX, best character in the game became instantly irrelevant after 1 patch

Sad Injustice Scorpion was nerfed

Sub-Zero UMK3, Sub-Zero MK9, Sub-Zero MKX, Sub-Zero MK1.

Kan y'all please make a Kompetitive History of Scorpion 🦂? 👊🏻🎮🐉🦂🦂🦂✌🏻

Didn’t people boo a tournament player because they chose Deadshot? Or am I mistaking Deadshot for a different character

They hit the Quan :(

Mk9 kano ABSOLUTELY deserved to be nerfed even harder than that

No MK1 gameplay??????? Shocking honestly

Before I see the video. Injustice 2 Aquaman.

Mk11 sonya

I play new and old fighting games on my channel. I really have enjoyed playing mk9 recently it's more fun than mk1 in my opinion :)