iron giant ?

[Toonett]

i don't get it :(
apparently he's supposed to be the weakest character, but i just fought one and i couldn't dodge his attacks ? I mean, i dodged, i'd get the "dodged!" pop-up on screen but still get hit by lingering frames covering half the screen.
how do you fight this (talking 1V1 here, not 2V2) ? honestly looking for tips since there must be tricks because he's apparently considered the worst char

tyvm if you decide to help :)

[Mixedbeats18]

I am with sporskeeda tier list in mind but he is S rank in there, you could try Harley vs him, spike the field and attack far away

[Dr. Cool]

Just dodge away from the attacks instead of into them.

[arc361]

Iron giant pretty dam good if you know how to play him.

[George Droid]

There is a really crazy combo with iron giant maybe he did that.

[Toonett]

Originally posted by Mixedbeats18:

I am with sporskeeda tier list in mind but he is S rank in there, you could try Harley vs him, spike the field and attack far away

mhm.. sadly can't change char anymore. i do'nt wanna be forced to play one specific char anyways..

Originally posted by Dr. Cool:

Just dodge away from the attacks instead of into them.

i'm doing that, i'm DIing out when hit too, it just doesn't work.

Originally posted by arc361:

Iron giant pretty dam good if you know how to play him.

Originally posted by Jonesy Fortnite:

There is a really crazy combo with iron giant maybe he did that.

yeah well what i'm getting from this is that he might actually be broken.
we'll see with later tier lists, i guess until then i'm just gonna alt F4 whenever i see him, i just can't figure it out and it's very frustrating getting hit by attacks you've dodged.

[NumeroDΣz]

as long as you keep your distance you can never miss any move on him so yeah he's not weak if you fight him close range but you're not supposed to do that.

[Toonett]

Originally posted by Bruno:

as long as you keep your distance you can never miss any move on him so yeah he's not weak if you fight him close range but you're not supposed to do that.

wait what ? we must not be playing the same game, his moves have the most range out of all characters. maybe banana guard ? are you a banana guard player ? otherwise i don't see how you could come to that conclusion U_u
now yeah trying bait out his moves from afar to then punish can be decent, but i think i'm at a decently high elo and the ones i've seen play HYPER defensive. and i don't have moves that can hit even if dodged like he does.
fun fact is i usually win neutral against them by mixing up my approaches, pretty sure in all of those matches i've done way more damage than they did *while on the stage*.
the thing is it takes one hit to get stuck in lenghty combos out of which i was unable to escape even though i was DI-ing out and dodging out when given the chance but i'd still get hit by lingering attacks (like the spinny thing where he advances at the same time and has a hitbox the size of a building).
the other thing which is caused by the same issues, is that whenever i was offstage out of a combo, i had huge trouble getting back on stage, for the same reasons. most of the time i just wouldn't make it back, the times i'd get back on stage wasn't without taking an easy 60 or 80 damage in the process. (just in case, i don't have consistent issues getting back on stage against other chars, not like against IG, cause again i get hit even though i dodged the attacks.)

i'm thinking the spinny move you might have to dodge inwards actually, since he advances at the same time. idk. even if true that's a lot of knowledge required to fight ONE character (cause yeah, that's only one of the problematic moves)

and, i appreciate you guys tryna help, i really do, but i'd appreciate if we could restrain from giving advice if we don't have experience in the matchup ^^'

[treelaunka]

Originally posted by Mixedbeats18:

I am with sporskeeda tier list in mind but he is S rank in there, you could try Harley vs him, spike the field and attack far away

In beta he was S tier. He's been heavily nerfed to where he has no answer to any fast attacker, 1v1 and 2v2. 2v2s, he's just there to soak damage, because 2people will swarm him and spam spikes until they drag him to the edge.

He has no defense options anymore to counter attack most situations. So, he's really just S-tier if you do not know the match-up. I have zero issue killing him, and he's really only strong when people ignore him...which means they do not know the match up.

[✦𝒱𝒶𝓅𝑜𝓇]

pretty sure iron giant currently has the highest winrate in the game in 1v1 and 2v2 according to data aggregators like tracker gg

just a shot in the dark, my guess is since they slowed down the game, it was an inadvertant buff to the slowest character in the game.

[Baylife]

he has an infinite that needs to be patched out

[=3]

Originally posted by Toonett:

i guess until then i'm just gonna alt F4 whenever i see him, i just can't figure it out

insane

[Toonett]

Originally posted by treelaunka:

In beta he was S tier. He's been heavily nerfed to where he has no answer to any fast attacker, 1v1 and 2v2. 2v2s, he's just there to soak damage, because 2people will swarm him and spam spikes until they drag him to the edge.

He has no defense options anymore to counter attack most situations. So, he's really just S-tier if you do not know the match-up. I have zero issue killing him, and he's really only strong when people ignore him...which means they do not know the match up.

okay I hear you, although i'm not talking about 2s, should have mentionned that i play only 1s. but since you seem to know the match-up can you please share on it ?
i'm guessing you have to dodge in a different direction depending on the specific attacks ? some you have to dodge inwards and some outwards ? maybe even up/down for some others ?
I still feel like that's a lot of character specific knowledge required here.. but if that's how it is then i guess i'm gonna have to roll with it.
please teach us the match up :) def not gonna learn that against bots.

[¨°º✪GødzBlazƸ✪º°¨]

weak? he has an infinite right now... go check on reddit