Favorite Used Dissidia Character

I hate you - you forgot to add Jecht.

I chose Jecht, if he was on the poll, because he had one of the most interesting storylines in the game as it is hinted that he was once on the side of good and now seeing that he is on the side of chaos makes you wonder what happened. Out of all the characters, Jecht's character development seems the least rushed.

He's also great at fighting.. He's the greatest!! XD

 

He didnt forget,there are just too many characters (22 if Im right) and only room for 20 on here.So 3 get the axe and get put in other.

Me?I choose Squall.I like his fighting style in the game,he does good damage,and I find it 3easier to fight with him then many other characters.

Zidane,Tidus,Jecht,and Cloud could all take 2nd for me,with Terra being somewhere close to them.

 

I think giving the axe to Onion Knight rather than Jecht would be a better choice.. >.>

 

For me, I tried using all the characters.

My absolute best is Squall. Got him to lvl. 100 in a week and was the first character to get his lvl. 100 exclusive weapon. He's simple to use, and when used properly (And have the proper accessories equipped) he will permanently be in EX Mode.

Perhaps the easiest character for me to use was Onion Knight. He was the first character where I could get a decent victory chain going on in the Lunar Whale and Blackjack modes.

After those two, I found Cloud and Terra the easiest to use and practiced with them.

For the villains, Sephiroth was the first one I used. Not because of the fanboy/fangirl opinion of him, but because of the way he fought. The second villain I used and liked more than Sephiroth was Gabranth. He may suck in normal mode, but once he hits EX Mode he takes a level in badass.

Since Raven talks about Jecht, I might as well put my two cents it. I hated fighting him. He always seemed to do too much damage. I found him alright, but it is difficult to utilize his combos to their fullest extent.

And if there was one character that shouldn't have been on the polls, Emperor. I absolutely hate using him. I hate using him more than Shantotto. Those two characters are my least favorite to use, and as a result the only characters of mine who aren't at lvl. 100.

 

Have you played with him online against actual competent opponents - tournament wining opponents. I have and so has many other people and it's pretty unanimously in thinking that outside the uses of Beat fang and Ex mode, winning with Squall is very difficult - especially with his HP attacks. They're obvious and almost impossible to actually land when you don't block before using.

Oh that settles it - now I have to present you with gameplay of me playing with Jecht. I know pretty much everything about how to use Jecht to the fullest extent. I'll have to get around this to change your opinion of Jecht.

 

I know his HP moves are simple and easy to dodge. It adds a bit of difficulty when playing him. But at the same time, if you know what to do it can be easier to hit with the HP attacks.

I'm not saying he's a bad character. I just can't do his combos properly. And when I fought against the computer and the computer used Jecht, he'd do so much more damage than I could.

 

Since you're aware of his fault, then I'd be glad to fight against you sometime in the future.

More reason for me to make that video and show much more damage Jecht can dish out when in the hands of a human player. And if you're interested you could search up on Youtube for how-to's to Jecht fighting style.

 

If I do that I might as well look up how to use Emperor and Shantotto as well. With Jecht, at least he could do damage. But Emperor is much more difficult, having only two or three good Brave attacks and only one useful HP attack. And Shantotto is so difficult to get a high brave count to get the stronger HP attacks.

 

I think the Emperor is a great character and I make frequent use of all his moves. They're designed to help each other out to ensnare and trap your opponents so that they lose massive amounts of BRV points at a single instant and then get blown away by an stationary flare or a homing flare. You can also really stick it to them by using Starfall, but it depends on who you're fighting.

And by the way, I posted the link to my Jecht gameplay video if you're interested. Go watch it... now..

 

Obviously I really suck at Emperor or don't have the proper moves equipped. I find his attacks hard to hit and also not do much damage. Starfall tends to suck unless your enemy is frozen from Chaos Judgement rules or you're at opposite ends of a really big stage. Personally, I think the homing Flare is the only good HP attack, and I hate that it only works if you're on the ground.

And where would I find this link?

I do not feel the same way at all. Her Knight's Axe attack sucks and her Knight's Sword and Knight's Arrow attacks are easy to dodge. Her HP attacks are only useful if you charge them, and even then I find Shockwave Pulsar to be useless. In fact, Great Attractor needs to be charged to actually be used. Apocalypse is useful in defending yourself if you don't charge it, and if you do you're standing still. Which makes it easier for a character like Squall to hurt her with a move like Rough Divide. Rough Divide will break through Apocalypse and hurt Ultimecia, and odds are she will hit a wall and have more damage done. When she charges her attacks, she slowly floats around. So somebody can rush up to her, dodge the attack she was charging, and then hit her with their attacks. Another, more personal complaint, is how slow she moves. She's slower than almost every character aside from Exdeath. That is bad because all the faster characters can hit her easier than she can hit them, and she doesn't have any kind of shield to balance her lack of speed like Exdeath does.

 

Her fastest brave attack is her Knight's Axe (Not charged), and the accuracy for that move sucks. Her fastest HP attack is Great Attractor, but the attack's full speed only happens when fully charged. And a smart player will either get a far enough distance to dodge the attack or hit her before she gets the chance to fully charge it.

She doesn't move with grace. She moves too damn slow. In a fighting game such as Dissidia, slow movement is a bad thing unless you have something to support yourself, such as Exdeath's ultimate defense. The times when she moves fast is when you're dashing towards or away from an opponent, which nobody can do an attack while they are dashing, and when she is dodging. But everybody moves fast when dodging.

Ultimecia isn't made for tricking opponents. Emperor is. The strategy with Ultimecia is to keep your distance and hit with her attacks. The problem with her attacks is that they are easy to dodge and then counterattack. Take Knight's Sword as an example. Charging it or mashing the circle button, she shoots out magic swords in a straight line. But if her target dodges the initial sword, she has to slowly turn to try to hit them again. And by the time that happens her attack is either done or she is hit by the opponent's counterattack. Another problem with her brave attacks is that once they end, she stays still for a moment before you can move her again. And that moment is all somebody needs to punish her for attacking.

You, in my oppinion, are wrong. Considering that Ultimecia's main strategy is keeping her distance, it is very easy to buy yourself some time. And even then, certain characters can still get her from a distance with the proper HP attack. Firion's Shield Bash HP attack will block any brave attack Ultimecia does, and then counter with his own attack. She has to be really far away to not be hit by Shield Bash's counterattack. Sephiroth's Scintilla is similar to Shield Bash, but I think he needs to be much closer to hit.

When did I say her attacks were easily deflected? I said they are easy to dodge. The easiest way for her to hit somebody is to attack them while they are dashing at her. But even then I think that Knight's Sword is the only brave attack not deflected. Knight's Axe fully charged shouldn't be deflected either, but I'm not sure. And, thinking about it, I think Knight's Sword can be blocked with a regular character's block. I know Exdeath can block it with one of his shield attacks, but then again Exdeath blocks everything.

Also, I bolded your last statement to point out something I find to be rather obvious. With a fighting game such as this, anybody can easily defeat anybody as long as the player knows how to work the characters properly. Hell, even Emperor (Who, in case you haven't noticed, I find to be the worst character) can defeat anybody when used properly.

 

Oh man! You're so relentless today, DW! It's nonstop with you verbally attacking my best characters - first Jecht, then Emperor, and now Ultimecia. Now i have to have a video with my best Ultimecia gameplay ready to show you how much she rocks. Almost everything you suggested about Ultimecia is incorrect, the only thing I can give you credit for is how slow she can be, and how some of her moves leave her vulnerable.

The thing is with Ultimecia you fight to overwhelm your opponents by attacking at all sides so that they barely have any time to recover and retaliate. That's sorta how Ultimecia acts in her game - multitudes of steps ahead of her opponent so they can't fight back.

Only characters that can really get in her face are the ones that have a chance of beating her, she has the advantage over most characters. Characters such as Zidane, Kuja, and Terra are pretty much the only ones that have an advantage over her - and it's not by much.

In short, Ultimecia rocks. Oh yeah and the link to my Jecht video is posted in my last post in my 'Brushing up on Dissidia' thread.

 

Will you please explain how I ever verbally attacked Jecht? I just said that I can't do his combos properly and that for some reason the computer does too much damage when using him. I have never once said that Jecht was a bad character. I prefer using him over Emperor, (mabye) Garland, Kuja, Ultimecia, and Shantotto.

As for what I have said about Emperor and Ultimecia, I have only said what I have observed from playing the game. From what I've observed, I consider them to be some of the lower tier characters.

 

Cecil all the way baby! note: I can hold my own playing as ANY of the characters, but there are some I prefer more than others (i.e. Cecil ) He's got a balanced style and (like ALL characters) if u know how 2 use him, he's a force 2 b reckoned with. It also helps that he can use Light AND Darkness

As for this little argument, here's my 2 cents: EVERY CHARACTER IS GOOD IN THEIR OWN RIGHT. THERE IS NO 'BEST' CHARACTER. IF SOMEONE REALLY KNOWS HOW TO USE SOMEONE, THEN IT PROVES THIS POINT. I really like playing as Cecil not only because character-wise he's my favorite (yes, I've played ff4), but also because I know how to use him

 

No, Exdeath can fight with the sword. Though as an attack on it's own it's pretty bad; it's better used as a counterstrike. That being said Exdeath is a defensive character - no he really is and he's really good at it, to the point where it can be nerve-wrecking playing against a good Exdeath. The CPU's don't do him justice at all.