Why is everyone playing Centurion?

[The Black Rose]

since last week every most of my duels have been against a Centurion, today was the worst 12 duels 12 Centurions and all of them were spamming the same tired and boring combo
Is Centurion now broken? if so why does he feel so weak? or does matchmaking simply hate me?

[coyotmeister]

Centurion is weak if you can do backdodge + countergb and if you can parry their ♥♥♥♥, there is nothing you can except more than that, its not like you need timing like in others matchups aka warden conqueror

[The Black Rose]

Originally posted by Misanthrope:

The issue with Cent is that they are all heavily predicatble and don't have a lot of combos compared to everyone else. Especially Wu Lin. I feel like Wu Lin is a hard counter for Cent cause their Stamina and stam regen is WILD

Yea after a while i just switched to shaolin and won my matches but it is still annoyed to fight the same character for so long

[★Jaw★]

I guess it can get boring fighting the SAME character.

But I'm a Cent main, until the new characters come out, myself.

[Masuo15]

I guess is because, no other hero in this game has a bigger ego than Centurion. He is my second main character (kensei main here), I suck at him, everyone can easily counter me..but DAAAM it feels amaizing to get a kill with him or those executions. I spend a TON of steel on him, but you gotta love the character.

[There'sNoStringOnMe]

Centurion (the game character) has an ego as big as the whole game folder, I just bash them in any time of day.
I hold no ill opinion towards the people playing him tho.

[2PLY]

Why is everyone cent? cuz they can very cheaply spam u if caught off guard/outnumbered. 1on1 they aren't so bad to deal with but in any 1vX(dom+) situation they are still my absolute and most commonly despised :0

[kudo]

as someone who mains centurion, here's the deal: it is very easy to play centurion-- that is why so many people play him-- but it is also easy to fight him, and so there is an inherent gameplay flaw there.

if you can see his oranges coming and react to them consistently, centurion sucks. he has no way of opening his opponent. in this respect he's almost as bad as aramusha. not THAT bad, but almost.

the thing about fighting centurion is that it is easy to protect yourself from him. however, you can and WILL make a mistake or two when trying to initiate attacks. if he gets a parry and gets what he needs to initiate his WOMBO COMBO even once, half of your health is gone.

in short, centurion is easy to fight but deals extremely heavy damage if he ACTUALLY LANDS a hit confirm. so even if he's easy to fight, he's also very punishing if you make a mistake. it is because of these sweet moments of heavy damage that so many people love to play him.

centurion is broken. not in the way that he is extremely unbalanced or overpowered. simply that he is so inconsistent and his entire playstyle revolves around that one sweet, sweet hit confirm. it shouldn't be that way, but it is, and it can be frustrating for most match ups (of course, unless you play a character just like centurion in this respect, like shugoki)

[Kharn the Betrayer]

Cause i'm awesome.

[Axel]

Because he has the most OP executions and emotes in the game.