I find some of these changes to be rather confounding. As in, increasingly confusing. A lot of these are one step forward two steps back nerfs. But I can understand most of the nerfs.
No changes to lightning strike is honestly criminal, but in fairness it's the only thing holding cowboy together atm. I supposed more needs to be changed before it can be thrown directly into the pits of hell. Lest we make cowboy cripplingly bad for an update or two. The buffs given were pretty neat. Except for vert slash buffs, wasn't that move nerfed for a reason lmao?
But I digress. It's violence time.
I agree, by and large, there's some really weird stuff in here
That said, what's so bad about lightning slice, in a game where mana strike exists?
It's faster, it reaches the same range but can also be used much closer, and it can be positioned to knock opponents towards yourself to continue the combo.
I honestly don't see wizzes use that move lol. I wouldn't know why, I don't play Wiz lol. But, my main problem with lightning strike is that it can chain into itself almost 10 times, and as cowboy, you can just teleport into position to continue with another chain. It's really, really, really unfun to deal with.
Oh woah, yeah, that sounds rough... I can't talk, I haven't personally seen it chained that often since 0.3.0 came out - with the improvements to DI and the additional knockback from repeating the same move multiple time, I was seeing/getting 2-3 consecutive hits of it at the absolute most, before people just slide out sideways at immense speed.
Before this update lightning strike would be reppable about 8-10~ times before needing to reposition. And it's incredibly resistant to DI for some reason.
This update made it so it'd be about 3-4~ before the cowboy needs to teleport or whatever which makes it much less painful. By all means the problem still remains. The move is functioning in a particularly goofy and antithetical manner. But I'll take the dub regardless.