Not Sure Why They Nerfed Anakin... - Starwars Battlefront II

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[@apexdushindo1968]

Ya, Anakin used to be the character where you just went, “Ooh, what does this button do,” and you get like 30 kills

[@j.m.3928]

lol so true

[@raddawggames9477]

Ikr

[@tog9341]

That’s the only reason I got Bf2

[@cornbreadloverrr]

Lmfao that was basically Anakin in Ep.1

[@Hazrat2913]

When I first played him I did not know what it did was about to die, just pressed it, everyone died I got like 12 kills and was happy

[@Awesome999Dude]

Still have PTSD of my whole team shooting Anakin in heroic might, not having any cover and thinking 'Fuck.'

[@bolmobelo]

" *welp,we're dead* "

[@autumn2ashes211]

Good ending: Then you mash roll and I-frame through his heroic might. Phew.

[@vullord666]

He was the *C H O S E N O N E*

[@Sniper_4_Life]

@@vullord666 he was the *BROKEN ONE* No, for real, he used to be OP as f-ck. I once(, or twice, or ...) won a 1v4 fight as Anakin by just button mashing

[@Dino-god69]

I'd always start running as soon as I saw him 😂💯

[@cyanlegacy8291]

*Did you ever hear the tragedy of anakin skywalker the op? he was so powerful dice took him apart and put him back together and afterwards he was never the same.*

[@michaelgriffin9682]

Why does this work soo well

[@thecrownprince888]

A+

[@CongoChongoVIII]

bronies are a curse from hell

[@bbgamegodpnw]

Fr he's actually trash asf now, you have to be decent at the game to use him, tbh obi Wan and Rey are op asf and can singlehandedly 1v1 a top lvl vader. Now ofc Rey has her nerfs and buffs but tbh besides jumping away, there is 0 counter to her abilities, the dash strike is op, mind trick is op asf and the 3 dodges mixed with less stamina detracting is absolutely over powered, shit obi has that reduced cars for defense and can basicily be 4v1 and still come out with massive dps, and then anakin is basic8ly reliant on pull, without pull and skill anakin is definite C tier

[@lxeedye7one662]

@@bbgamegodpnw nah I'm level 55 or something with anakin, trust me if you know his abilities well enough you can easily be the best player in the lobby... I have countless times 2v1 Darth Vader's or 3v1, his abilities are for crowd control like kylo ren that's why obi wan and rey are still better because they are not crowd control but 1v1... But that still doesn't put him at C tier definitely higher!!!

[@japtakito8551]

Yep, still remember when he was released, he was a god... any player could be good with Anakin and win everytime. good times.

[@mando074]

Yep any 4 year old could use him and beat everyone.

[@japtakito8551]

@@mando074 Pretty much LOL

[@JonathanSavko]

Good times? You mean dark ages lol

[@japtakito8551]

@@JonathanSavko Yes... before the dark ages, before the nerfings

[@alyax-]

What can i say, The Chosen One 🔥

[@LiamP_07]

I would love to see OP Anakin vs current Vader

[@darthmarty8185]

OP Anakin Smokes any character at any point in the game with the same level skill of player

[@darthmarty8185]

OP Anakin Smokes any character at any point in the game with the same level skill of player

[@grandstasis1878]

Vader would get destroyed by post-release Anakin, Anakin does way more damage than he does. Even back then Anakin could easily inflict heavy damage against Vader

[@majorastorm]

Wished they kept the knockdown for his big boi strike.

[@grandstasis1878]

@@majorastorm don’t think that’s a good idea because people are gonna abuse it like when he first came out, that would make all of his abilities knock downs which is pretty cheap especially towards blaster heroes

[@TheOneWhoReportsForDuty]

Fans: Anakin should be the best character in the game on release! Dice: *Makes Anakin the best character on release* Fans: ANAKIN IS OVERPOWERED! You need to nerf him! How did this get past play testing?! Dice: Hold on, this whole operation was your idea.

[@mantamancadet2790]

Dice: nerfs Anakin Fans: This is outrageous and unfair!

[@urbainleverrier1]

let me say something ummm hold on, this whole operation was your idea

[@GachaDolos]

@@urbainleverrier1 dice: fine have it your way. Also dice: *Deletes Anakin and Buffs Darth Vader*

[@OriginalSuper]

*There can be only one*

[@elikyiael8740]

i never understood why in texts like this a group is always described as one sentient being instead of multiple people

[@Duatt639]

now retribution tickles enemies Lmao

[@xx_wasabi-_-xxgg]

225 damage sucks

[@felings4u544]

Hit em up with all of them, raw strength and retribution and you will basically instakill everything. Retribution is still good though if you've got teammates that know to shoot and swing at the hero getting choked. From the numbers I checked hitting up people with all of them and raw strength + retribution deals like 670 damage to troops without doing a single swing (at least 442 if you do that entire combo on a hero with only rawstregnth). Anakin's playstyle is unfortunately more leaning towards his abilities rather than his saber, unless you of course use steamroll then he just becomes a mini vader with abilities that regen really quick

[@certifiedsmuggla2179]

Except it doesn't when someone with a blaster is near. Any move that holds you in place and leaves you vulnerable is fatal when you have a blaster user near you. A simple trooper can take just about all of your health if you're caught in retribution, kylos freeze or vaders choke in GA/CS now imagine another blaster hero... crazy how the community still think it's "weak" just cause it's not a win button anymore lmfao

[@preston4871]

Most of the time they can block it or you get a glitch from it 😭😭😭

[@zzodysseuszz]

@@certifiedsmuggla2179 it’s weak bc it rarely ever kills anyone. I’ve survived it as a trooper ffs

[@CLSGL]

The downside of nerfing a strong character is that the entire team still attacks them, but they just can’t defend themselves anymore

[@Novahlus_69]

Honestly his push should've stayed the same, literally punished people dumb enough to keep hitting anakin

[@likeabantha457]

True. It made him an op character yes but he was literally the balance between light and dark because the dark side was so broken back then with palpatine being able to attack through walls

[@stiven355]

Yea atleast make it go up to 400 dmg when hitting him that's not as op as over 1k dmg

[@Hoodini2253]

@@stiven355yeah, also his retribution is literally a worse Vader choke now… way too little reward, way too hard to make work, way too hard to use without dying and losing it.

[@Hoodini2253]

Yeah it may be strong as hell but it punishes ppl who don’t learn their lesson 🤷‍♂️ that happens currently too in every game so it should’ve stayed

[@christians8885]

Anakin beats Vader Anakin-pathetic, you’re weak. Vader-I am you.

[@don8659]

Is he though? More machine than man lol

[@Jdog_6704]

Honestly Anakin definitely needed a nerf but I feel some of his abilities should have stayed the same. Looking back at this honestly makes me sad that we never got Ahsoka and other heroes. Honestly wish EA would go back to Battlefront 2 but knowing EA, they don't care about Battlefront 2 and the fans, only what gives them serious dough.

[@void335]

Ya i wish we got ashoka and rex they are the dynamic duo

[@HeSnappedTho]

@@void335 if ahsoka comes it needs to be with ventress not Rex

[@banditcat9957]

FIFA BABEE!!!!!!!!!!

[@user-qd3lc7zb6n]

@@banditcat9957 Star Wars FIFA

[@Arthurmadhal]

ashoka is a kids show character no need to bring her to bf2 mace windu deserves it more

[@mando074]

Don't forget the obligatory after-kill emote. I guess it's where the fun began...

[@DocRiprock]

Anakin casually runs passed his daughter then fights his grandson.

[@mr.nobody2858]

Anakin at launch: A op god. Dice: Yeah, that's balanced.

[@porkypine4529]

anakin now: shit DICE: *stops updates* seriously, dice are kinda dumb

[@mathisntmybestsubject8440]

Perfectly balanced... as all things should be.

[@mr.nobody2858]

@@porkypine4529 a lot is still not balanced despite the game being good. Anakin's swings should have less stamina drained but less base damage. Similar to Count Dooku's stamina.

[@thelookingcat]

@@mr.nobody2858 so just without the massive strikes card?

[@mr.nobody2858]

@@thelookingcat yeah, just take that card out since it uses more stamina with attacks. His stamina is already shit so I don't see the point of that card.

[@balrogsareop4773]

The guy single-handedly forced DICE to give Maul the ability to block

[@jackdamascus4506]

Bruh I heard so much about Anikin being a god-killer and when I finally played him I didn’t know about the nerf so I thought I was going crazy

[@julioxstaticv3782]

You just sucked bro jkjkjk

[@bingusmingus9058]

People didn’t wanna learn that you don’t attack Anakin with that move. That’s the whole point of that move. Yet they went on their forums to complain about it.

[@deaconpoole7577]

Good lord, that takes me back. Back to when Anakin used to be able to deal over 1000 points in damage with his Heroic Might, and would one-shot literally every blaster villain within a 20 meter radius

[@drew_edts]

I wish I was around to see him in his prime 😞

[@roger632]

Grievous looked like he froze when Anakin picked him up with the Retribution ability. 😄

[@eatmybullets5489]

The people at the end killed themselves. You dont hit anakin while hes in his heroic might animation because his damage will build up. Anakin was perfect after his second nerf back in May 2019

[@emperorpalpatine4995]

That makes sense in HVV but you can’t expect 20 people in GA to be that smart

[@eatmybullets5489]

@@emperorpalpatine4995 buff Anakin nerf Leia

[@georgedad041]

Nop in the nerf in June 2019 was perfect

[@eatmybullets5489]

@@georgedad041 May 2019

[@majorastorm]

Anakin to this day is a king against infantry. All you need is the raw strength, all of them, and massive strikes card, and you're good. I agree his stamina needs a buff, because he's weaker against a Vader main, but other than that

[@merbuhk]

"Aight, y'all good, but let me press the win button real' quick"

[@gundam4602]

Jedi followed a code. Qui-Gon followed the Force.

[@emperorgizmo3014]

The Devs nerf Anakin. They fear his power would be too great to control.

[@Edit.Eclipses]

Lore accurate full potential dark side anakin:

[@SkyCha0s]

I have said this before and im gonna said it again,*retribution* should stay the same.

[@squigwart]

yeah retribution kind of sucks now. If EA hadn't of cut Battlefront II support im sure Anakin would have been buffed again :(

[@squigwart]

also i wish the passionate strike damage card added 40 damage like it use to instead of the wimpy 25, but its still good

[@yingkongshi]

@@squigwart I wish there was still knock down from passionate strike

[@thomasthedankengine7709]

@@yingkongshi EXACTLY

[@carson3140]

@@yingkongshi nah bro 3 knockdowns + retribution was just too much. If Anakin caught you with 1 ability he could saw off half your hp before you stand back up.

[@NamelessKvng]

Anakin did say "You don't want to make me angry"

[@honoree715]

For a moment there I thought he was picking up kylo as his own fellow teammate😂💀

[@alduin7546]

I think that at least one aspect of him being OP should remain or come back, either his passionate strike knocking them down, or the heroic might actually working and doing a lot of damage, or retribution, just give us back 1 I’d be very grateful lol

[@ShinkTD]

"You underestimate my power"

[@marcosgonzalez4207]

Yep, this is a perfect representation of the launch of every single brawler of Brawl Stars

[@Imbroke-b6k]

Don’t know why Battlefront 2 players immediately want Anakin nerfed when they asked for the most OP character in Star Wars.

[@JackR1515]

Passionate strike knocking them down was crazy

[@strikerfrost7222]

Now his ret doesn't even take out Vaders bonus health and his stamina is like the irl fatties who gank then emote you xD

[@DaffierPig6843]

They’re actually crazy for making passionate strike a stun

[@mateigabrielzaharia4842]

Anakin Skywalker, you're younger than i expected!

[@plasticchairguy6471]

I still remember and i will remember it forever the time i got in on the last point on naboo the entire enemy team was there a few more seconds more and we lost but i pick anakin and i swear i killed the entire enemy team in less of 10 seconds and giving my team enough time to respawn and we defended the point until they run out of units..... That will be a moment i will always remember

[@terellchapman8737]

Anakin didn’t need a nerd our play styles needed to change

[@josew.6423]

Ahh the Chosen One, toying with Boba Fetts like rag dolls, miss those days :D

[@Mr_Rat_Man_725]

I remember having to speed run loading into a match and scrolling to the right side of the hero selection menus to have a slight chance of getting him and if I did getting 15+ kill games

[@kalenwilliams5210]

Now it’s Vader who’s the OP one , bro just ignores most damage 😂

[@T3noir]

Never got to play as him when he was op 😢 at least I got to dominate as op grevious for a time tho

[@dumb_lifeexe2264]

I understand nerfing this anakin but really after the 3rd nerd they should've probably stopped the 4th, 5th, and 6th nerfs were just way to much now hes a fun hero when he works but has crap stamina and his abilities are fun but not that good at actually doing something the only reasonable ability that is good for him rn is his pull

[@saihiko9967]

And that heroic might doesn't even get damage boost any more sucks ass, like I understand to nerf it's high damage output when charged, but they could've made it so he gains only an extra 100 damage to heroic might because 100 damage as his base without star cards is absolutely useless

[@dumb_lifeexe2264]

@@saihiko9967 yep

[@majorastorm]

After his proper nerfs, they should of restored his stamina, and health. It's so damn hard to counter a sweaty Vader main

[@dumb_lifeexe2264]

@@majorastorm yeah theres literally no counter to a vader in general it sucks when the vader has the card that gives focused rage 40% damage reduction and give it more time

[@generalgrievous714]

Anakin mains when they hear the ding: *oh hey its time to win*

[@rileymiller3154]

Anakin at 25% health "okay that's it I'm done playing around"

[@TheLuconic]

I wished they fixed the glitches before they abandoned the game….

[@Minecraftyoutuber27]

When he hit passionate strike and it knocked him down too my face dropped

[@alexwashere8318]

"Not sure wh- oh, yeah that's why"

[@montbradley1082]

Yup at Launch he was FULL POTENTIAL ANAKIN🤷🏿‍♂

[@FictionalFranchiseAcc]

I love how u can use the right ability and they will just get knock down.

[@Alirezarz62]

I joined the game when anaking was introduced in the game he was so powerful and I had a blast with him ngl

[@Trickle99]

Me when I click to play as Anikan: This is where the fun begins !

[@betzygarcia9034]

Retribución was si strong that Even Grievous stayed static. Lol

[@distiller7004]

Ma man listen closely. Anakin was so op that when u saw him you would go something like "oh hi death" and even your teammates would leave the match

[@ekindogan9862]

"This is where the fun begins." No Anakin this is where the fun ends...

[@rdraken]

I remember my friend who still stands by "he has been overnerfed and should still be op" and when I say "retribution at launch" he says "Just block it"... Followed with me killing him 4 times in a match while I was using Anakin just saying "Just block it" to him using Lando.

[@TradRaider]

*Constantly turns lightsaber on and off* “Huzzah, a man of quality”

[@studclone]

At the end when he killed everyone this is where the fun begins -Anakin ROTS an real Sith

[@OmegaRaptorboy]

:POV Lore Accurate Anakin

[@byallon3639]

The nerf it had to be only for the abilities, not the whole character, because now is not usable, it has a lot of bugs and the stamina make him a shitty character. DICE like as always doesn't how to balance anything

[@supremearcher9398]

That looks fun for everyone involved

[@CalIunn]

Anakin never should have been nerfed

[@HighRatKingBenis]

I remember when anakins would control the Naboo courtroom

[@castielffboi]

The scoreboard at the end tho…too real

[@Makenziethedog]

He said it himself “you don’t wanna make me angry”

[@tikkaslade1139]

It’s such danger but for the sith’s ‘death’ to be them just finally feeling the pain and needing to sit out catches my interest more

[@zacqueeentertainment7336]

The patch right before the last nerf made him completely balanced. He was powerful but not too strong. His stamina wasn't atrocious like it is now.

[@austinbyrd4164]

They should bring this game to the days before bb8 & vaders op choke. It was way less buggy & more balanced then. They stopped support when the game was in a very bad state.

[@murdererofthebrainless1872]

This is real chosen one

[@darrinidontcare9526]

This highkey the best version/game mode of Hero’s vs villains

[@calebtheholyman545]

Cant believe his r1 was a knockback, I actually think trauma wiped that from my mind

[@vicool217]

I mean, anakin being this powerful is canonical.

[@grandstasis1878]

Anakin was very powerful that’s true, but that doesn’t mean he knows how to use all that power at will because he definitely couldn’t beat all these villains at once by himself

[@davidwires1849]

He was powerful but got his ass handed to him by Obi Wan. So shouldn't Obi Wan be the chosen one?

[@vicool217]

@@grandstasis1878 he could best i think they were called the Celestiales . They are stronger than those villain by a huge margin

[@vicool217]

@@davidwires1849 obi-wans defense was amazing. Even in canon grevious was strong and was using his 4 arms and yet obi-wan blocked him. And obi-wan isn’t stronger than anakin, he was just able to keep up with him.

[@davidwires1849]

@@vicool217 whatever the reason he still lost bad.

[@carljohnson_gsf]

Anakin Skywalker the broken one.

[@dez1446]

Man for the longest time I could never find footage of passionate strike making the opponent fall and my friends never believed me that u could just spam the 3 moves and pretty much insta kill a hero/villian if you caught him with the pull

[@meikelinde1623]

Nerving things after release always sucks. I still remember model 1887 akimbo.

[@christiandiordior5614]

Grievous froze from Anakin's retribution lmao

[@skyrim_crossing2839]

The really quiet hello there at the start 😂

[@darthwider7700]

Lore accurate Anakin

[@abstraktfilms]

They underestimate his power

[@fatedcrow3808]

yeah, since his whole nerf i’ve been playing as obi-wan

[@LadyFireShelf]

With all do respect master, is he not the chosen one?

[@coltonwhite2518]

Being the chosen one he kinda deserves to be op from a lore perspective. Atleast top 5 for most players but I can understand why people were frustrated. I stopped playing bf2 before the nerf so I'm glad I got to smoke ass with lore accurate Anakin in all his glory for as long as I did.

[@RainIncorporated]

And this with one button anakin brought down the whole fucking Milky Way galaxy.

[@sunzoo2337]

He is Pressing the win Button

[@naoeoryan6070]

Well that's the chosen one! And the future Darth Vader

[@dawsynlarson696]

Bro pre patch anakin could pull god damn planet outta orbit

[@Han_Solo_Captain]

Thank God they nerfed the heroic might ability. They could have left the retribution as it was though...

[@ghidogoji1991]

He used to be op a while back I think it was his middle ability that made him OP and it basically was a one shot

[@PsychedelicRug]

He is the chosen one after all

[@redemption2901]

Bro got jumped....nah they didn't even give him a faithful 1v1 and still got faded up

[@Midnight_4230]

“Always be on the move people. *stops*” -anakin

[@-Grizzly_]

He was lore accurate tho, could’ve made Vader just as OP to balance things out instead of just being boring and nerfing him

[@TWO_THOUSAND_SEAVY_HEAVY]

Remember when half the team would back out when they saw Anakin

[@ThisHandleIsInteresting]

Rumor has it, they’ve re-BUFFED him. 😨

[@lxrdxrist]

They secretly made retribution recharge faster in the final update without putting it in the patch notes

[@ethanbaer65]

When they designed the heroes they decided to go for realism instead of balance. 😂

[@nightfallshort9232]

They should've kept Anakin the way he was, but just make it to where you needed more points to get him

[@finnmyers7137]

no

[@nightfallshort9232]

@@finnmyers7137 yes

[@rockthefrogs6385]

I remember Using Retribution for the first Time and Just Tossing Everyone off Of the map

[@sowdk100.]

bro had 13 choke damge 💀

[@Heat362]

You aderestimate my power

[@Gamer1Tom]

The good old days 😂