so far i consider bruce to be very weak.
that korean guy did very well for 2 reasons:
1, no one is too good with T5 yet, it is still a young game, he focused on short range poking games so much, he was very good at that, but in long term, once people know how to effectively counter that, he will lose his edge.
2, any character has the potential to be played well, there were ttt jun, t4 marduk made into last few rounds in tournaments, so can t5 bruce.
however this does not change the fact that bruce is weak.
i had a look his game. the moves he uses are:
1,2,3 mixes with 1,2,d4
ws2>1, follow ff d3 for ducking high.
d/+2 for whiff.
random f+3, and d/f+3,1
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most characters have better or equal random mid low mix than bruce's f3_d/f+3,1
most character have better whiff punish juggles than bruce's d/f+2, t5 d/f+2 is just as punishable as u/f+4, it has no advanatage as far as i can tell.
most character hve more damaging ws moves than bruce's little ws2>1,d3, which only does 37 dmg, if opp doesnt move,
so the only thing he really got is 12d4_123, admittedly, it is a lot faster than ttt, it is now impossible to block by watching even on anticipation, however, one can simply guess and still be better off.
in the game of bruce vs raven (Finals: Freestyle vs TC-ADMIN), bruce was only ULP-ed by raven twice, result was100HP gone.
this is like when we first started playing TTT, people were winning games with kazuya's 112_124 mix, it dies fast.
