What do you think about Astral Heats.

[KayEff]

I would say "I don't know who anyone looks like in Dustloop except for a few people," but I think saying that will derail the topic, so I'm not going to.

Instead I'll just say that Astral Heats are silly.

[Mizzet]

Noel has hands down the most number of astral setups for a character in the game (grab, j.d, 6d, d.5c, d.6c, 6c, I could go on), and also not a lot she can do with heat. You can say if you had 100% heat and the opponent was below 20%, anything would have killed them, not always true. You will occasionally run into situations where the tail end of your combo brings the opponent below 20% and nothing else other than an astral will kill them because of proration. If I wanted to play 'nice' and not do it, I might not even get to land another combo and it will cost me the match, in this case using that astral is literally the only correct action. So yeah, I will astral you if I have the opportunity to.

That's Noel of course, she has so many ways to combo into hers. If it's, for example, a Jin sandbagging the entire match and trying to go for a throw just to combo into his astral, yeah that's really weak.

TL;DR

Comboing into astral -- fine

Purposely going for a throw into astral -- douchey, but fine

random astral hoping it will hit -- hey man, it's your funeral

[Fireryda]

that is to say if you have a bad starter combo since your combos have to start at 35% hp or lower ;p

[furix]

iirc you can't kill someone with an astral if they go under 35% during that combo. Meaning you can't combo into an astral in the same combo that brought them down below 35%. The combo would have to end before your character icon begins flashing.

[Mizzet]

Hm that's interesting. Might explain why sometimes I'm expecting that portrait to start flashing white and it doesn't. I believe my point still stands though, it's terribly easy for Noel to combo into hers.