You have a small window of time between seeing what the next release is going to be (reveal on the 25th) and the 17 & Golden Frieza banner leaving (it leaves the 26th).
I think it’s smart to wait and see what this will be before deciding what to do with your CC but you can’t go wrong with summoning for 17 & Golden Frieza right now if you want - they’re extremely dominant and should theoretically age well unless something drastic happens.
I’ve used SSBKK enough to have a pretty solidified opinion on him. I don’t think he’s as bad as I’ve seen people claim, but I do actually think he needs adjustments.
1. +30% damage inflicted to starter ability
Once he gets some 50% damage stacks in he can start to deal some pretty nice damage but the initial 2 cards don’t do enough. I think an extra 30% to his baseline is probably enough. Pretty much the opposite problem that Ultra VB has.
2. Inflicts enemies with +2 substitution counts upon receiving an arts card once per switch in
I don’t mind the guy having pretty subpar defensive abilities since he’s supposed to be more of an offensive character, but he should have better synergy defensively with Golden Frieza & 17’s ki reduction mechanic since they’re designed to be used together.
Unfortunately the devs haven’t really been executing well on the easiest aspect of balancing characters: numbers. This tells me they simply don’t spend the necessary time to apply the testing needed since it’s infinitely easier to test for straight numbers (IE damage, damage guard, etc.) as opposed to mechanics. I would argue that most recent characters have ran into this issue (whether numbers are too high or too low) which is a shame because it’s the bare minimum of what should be expected at this point.
We’ll see what else they might potentially drop this week but another 1% Zenkai confirms that my initial suspicion in the quoted tweet below was correct.
The current PvP season is scheduled to end on 8/25 at 15:00 JST, which is a day earlier than normal. I think this means they may be bringing PvP down for maintenance for a full day to prepare for the updates coming with next season.
I also think it's likely we'll see 10+ hour full game maintenance that same night to coincide with the major app update as well.
Definitely would not recommend summoning for this SSBKK Goku right away. I think there’s a high chance our first summer fest character on the 26th could be a YEL Ultra. Also would make sense to at least wait and see what the final week of this campaign looks like next week.
Character looks cool but...
Type neutral defense on entry
Endurance
Cost debuff stacking
Sub count reduction vs. big moves
Buff removal
You could throw half HP disrupt in there if you want
We are back to where we were 16 months ago with all units having the same mechanics.
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