🔥 Welcome to the ultimate guide on mastering low-tier mains and navigating buffs & nerfs! 🔥 Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction to Patch Culture 2:15 - The Life of Low-Tier Mains 5:30 - Buff Character Crisis Explained 8:45 - Navigating Nerfed Character Syndrome 12:00 - Conclusion 💬 Share Your Experience: Have you faced a significant character nerf or buff? Tell us how you adapted! 🔔 Subscribe for More: Stay updated with the latest strategies. 📺 Next Video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7NN85JvShhI.html Join Us: Twitch: www.twitch.tv/tricky_vfdc Twitter: twitter.com/Tricky_Eileen RU-vid: www.youtube.com/@TrickyEileen Learn More: www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/randi-elfrida-scott-mclaughlin-new-york-ny/1280970 Disclaimer: The information provided in this video is for educational and informational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
Hey Tricky! I really was curious about patch culture as a new FGC member and what you were saying at 6:33 resonated. Through playing my first ever fighting game, street fighter 6, I encountered patch culture for the first time ever. It was a struggle to watch community and pros have to beg capcom to drop the notes leading up to it. Then season 2 rolled around and the changes that dropped which affected the character I play, JP - a character most considered top tier in season 1. Because I was so inexperienced in most aspects of the character at the time I let myself be influenced by opinion of others saying, "JP is dead, the nerfs killed him" when in reality after a bit of digging around in research and restructuring your approach you can still play him very much like S1 just more balanced overall with few new routes to keep it interesting. Pros would say that these changes only are to shake things up in the meta and take away unintended strategies that proved to be very good at the highest level for example JP had too many ways to checkmate people (even though he still does but it lessened the amount of scenarios where its possible). I learned that these nerfs to characters affect those who can't iterate and evaluate their choices with character tools properly. For another example, a tool of JP is his primary anti-air 2HP which got nerfed, it trades and no longer has upper body invuln. Before I complained about this change as it meant I was going to die more to trades and have - but that is a bad mindset to cultivate, instead I looked at other tools in his kit to address this change and would you believe it, he has so many other ways to anti-air. They don't nerf characters since pros will cook with them anyway, they nerf people who rely on one or two tools and don't iterate. The people who complain about nerfs instead of keeping it pushing and find new ways to iterate upon their character knowledge don't advance, they are forever behind because innovators like pros will be ahead and find new ways to advance the meta of the character they play.
I mostly play characters for fun, but what really really bugs me is when games ONLY nerfs the top tiers and never give out buffs. I honestly think this mind set kills games BIG time, when you nerf a character you take away from it and that makes that character less fun to play. which as a whole makes the game less fun for that person. On the other hand if you buff low tier's you giving them new tools and more fun ways to play that character, I honestly think this is the way to go so games don't die in the future. An example of over nerfing: Multiversus, 95% of there updates are nerfs to the game or characters. If you check steamDB the game is struggling to keep it's numbers up.
