Shaolin IMO is the worst character they have ever added.

[Schizm]

Its not even his damage, or how fast he is, or his mix ups, its not that I think hes particularly good either.

Its his animations, they do not have good silhouettes or readability. A vast majority of his moves are pokes and unlike Valk or Nobushi whos pokes are easily visible and have enough start up so you can see them. Shaolin's poke are extremely close to his body and it breaks his silhouette and they are also rather quick which only compounds the problem.

For honor has always had good animation from a design perspective, even fast moves far faster then what Shaolin has are easily readable at a glance with strong key frames. But Shaolins? I can't tell what hes doing 90% of the time as everything looks the same. I'm really disappointed with this character..

[iNFiNiTE]

follow his hand u well notice

[Zero]

his fastest pokes are 400-500ms, which is pretty normal, the slow swings are like 600-900ms tho.

[Schizm]

Originally posted by Zero:

his fastest pokes are 400-500ms, which is pretty normal, the slow swings are like 600-900ms tho.

Thats not what i'm saying.... His animations are poorly designed and are not easily readable. Most animations have start up then fallow through with very clear silhouettes. Shaolins Start up and fallow through is extremely poor from an animation perspective. Its not his speed that I hate, its the fact I can't tell his moves apart do to poor visual design.

Originally posted by iNFiNiTE.:

follow his hand u well notice

No.... Sorry fallowing a very small part of his body that aren't easily seen is not the solution. His animations are just piss poor. Everything he does is to subtle.

[DwarvenFury]

Not going to lie, even as someone who really enjoyed playing shaolin himself, there's this one particular animation that always threw me off when going against it. I think it's when he turns his back towards you and light hit you in the right side from the left side after a light hit.

Though I'm pretty sure it's because we're not use to the new heroes yet. Give it a couple of weeks and I'm sure the community will find their weaknesses and get use to their movesets.

[Da]

can agree with that, his pokes are kinda hard ro read.

but daaaaaaamn his taints are funny. can't wait to grab him on Oct 30