Catching up with DOA5

[vgmkyle]

Hello, my name is Kyle, I am a content creator for Dead or Alive World, and I'm also on the news team of FreeStepDodge. I know a lot about DOA5, and was hoping to catch some of you up to date on current game meta. Welcome to the DOA community PC players. It has been a long wait, but it's finally here!

First off, since there is no idea of what the balance adjustments could be for Last Round, it would be ignorant for me to say who will be the best in the game, although I would argue that the tier list did not change much from Vanilla to current DOA5 Ultimate meta. Here is a basic rundown that includes the current tier list from FSD.

Basic Gameplay Breakdown

Dead or Alive 5 advances on past Dead or Alive games in almost every way possible. Running on a triangle system of gameplay. Strikes beat throws, throws beat holds (reversals), and holds beat strikes.

One of the most important mechanics of DOA5 is the critical burst. When hit by a character's critical burst move after hitting a threshold the attacking character gets a guaranteed launch to extend their current combo.

A more typical mechanic is the Power Blow. Use a Power Blow at half life to send your opponent flying into an object that will continue your combo/damage guaranteed. The Power Launcher can be used as an alternative. As you may assume this moves launches your opponent WAY into the air for added damage.

Another important mechanic is the environment iteself. The levels of DOA are not only vast and explorable, but can also feature breakable objects (which guarantee damage to the attacking player), cliffs, tigers that launch you in the air, RPG Zones, Generators, Oil Rigs and more. The environments in DOA5 make the game a lot more punishing.

Tiers

S - Christie (+31)
A - Gen Fu (+21), Ayane (+16), Kasumi (+13)
B - Helena (+11), Leifang (+10), Hayate (+9), Pai (+9), Momiji (+6), Lisa (+5), Leon, (+3), Hayabusa (+2), Sarah (+2), Rig (+1), Akira (±0) Jacky (±0)
C - Alpha 152 (-1), Mila (-1), Zack (-2), Marie Rose (-3), Bayman (-4), Hitomi (-5), Jann Lee (-5), Rachel (-5), Tina (-5), Phase 4 (-8), Bass (-11), Ein (-11)
D - Kokoro (-15), Nyotengu (-15), Brad (-17)
E - Eliot (-28)

Last Round Additions

• Five Additional Characters... Marie Rose (systema), Nyo-Tengu (tengu-do), Phase 4 (mugen-tenshin), Raidou (copy-cat), and the last character will be shown 1.15.2015. Marie, Tengu and Phase 4 were paid DLC in the console versions of Ultimate, but will be built into Last Round.
  
• Two New Stages... Crimson and Danger Zone, both stages from past Dead or Alive games. These levels are highly destructable, and kind of define what Dead or Alive is about.
  
• New Outfits... most of these outfits are actually winners from a community costume contest that took place earlier this year.
  
• Balance Adjustments... with Ultimate we had major gameplay changes adding the Power Launcher... this time I'm not sure mechanics will be added, but there will certainly be a plethora of tweaks and adjustments. The newer characters (Nyo and Phase 4) already have some buffs.

Tournament Scene

The Dead or Alive 5 scene has grown far more than anyone could have ever expected. We capped out at Summer Jam 8 this year, blew the roof off at NC during The Fall Classic, and just closed our last major of the year at NEC 15. We have lots of talented and helpful players that you can find at:

www.freestepdodge.com and www.doaworld.com

These sites are pivitol for finding frame data, max damage on combos and video tutorials that will help you with advanced strategy.

Do not sleep on the Dead or Alive community. Welcome to DOA, and if there are any questions or concerns about the game I can gladly help, and will keep this discussion updated if possible.

[Xodan Rot]

What do those tiers mean? Highest tier (S) is the best character? Or the hardest?

[n00b3rt]

引用自 Xodan Rot：

What do those tiers mean? Highest tier (S) is the best character? Or the hardest?

The higher tiers are characters with moves/statistics that are advantageous. They either have more options or superior ones compared to other characters. Christie has some moves that are troubling to try and deal with as a lower tier fighter. Whether or not she or other high tier characters are difficult to play is irrelevant to their tier status. It's what they're capable of that sets them at their ranks.

[Jeffasaurus]

Please don't be a Chris G. and pick Christie simply because she's top tier... and cheap for that matter.

[Tapioca Jones]

引用自 C.C.'s Pizza (totes bae)：

Please don't be a Chris G. and pick Christie simply because she's top tier... and cheap for that matter.

Christie might lose her top tier status in Last Round. Even then, I never had a problem with Christie players since she is easily one of the hardest characters to learn and master in the DOA5 games.

[vgmkyle]

She's not harder than Akira, Phase 4 or Hayabusa. She has a 9 frame jab, intense mix up and stuns and an incredible side-step. One of our community best just recently lost his tournament streak. Likely for not picking Christie, who had won him 5-6 other tournaments.

I will not argue that she is hard to master though.

[Harrison11106]

引用自 C.C.'s Pizza (totes bae)：

Please don't be a Chris G. and pick Christie simply because she's top tier... and cheap for that matter.

As opposed to the Ninja characters who are oh so balanced right? Where should I start with them? 'Busa with the teleports & being one of 2 ninja characters with an unbreakable 3 part hold (there are 4 charcters with 3 part unbreakable holds, none of which is a grappler & 2 of those 4 being ninja characters). Kasumi with the fastest hits in the game, only surpassed by Alpha 152 (Christie is admittedly Kasumis equal here, but only with jabs, unless they change her for LR). Hell, Gen Fu is argueably higher tier then Christie is in DoA5U.

[Tapioca Jones]

引用自 deathofaninja：

She's not harder than Akira, Phase 4 or Hayabusa. She has a 9 frame jab, intense mix up and stuns and an incredible side-step. One of our community best just recently lost his tournament streak. Likely for not picking Christie, who had won him 5-6 other tournaments.

I will not argue that she is hard to master though.

I don't know about Phase 4 since I didn't buy her, but I merely stated that Christie was one of the hardest characters to master, not the hardest. I pointed that out because the person I quoted earlier intimated that people could get easy wins just by picking Christie due to her top tier status.

Christie isn't top tier AND braindead like Kokonoe was upon being released in Chrono Phantasma. Using Christie without knowing what one is doing can get her punished like a dog that crapped in the house because she can be unsafe, easy to predict and hold, and she lacks good holds and throws.

[HunterSeeker]

>.> oookay