'kay I tried this out of curiosity with my friend today and I fail to see how anyone can get a 50% or higher with this combo aside from luck o.o
Are you guys doing alternating shooting? I didn't do an official test aside from two things:
10 round match w/ MF
Leone WD145RF vs MF Libra C145WB
and
10 round match w/ MF
Leone 100RF vs MF Libra C145WB
One thing, I love the way
Leone covers the track making it shorter for all intents and purposes. I hope some HWS follow suit in this aspect, but I won't hold my breath.
MF Leone WD145RF vs MF Libra C145WB
Wins: 4, Losses: 5, Draws: 3
As we did this in a competitive styled match up, we had a tie breaker round (two actually) bringing it up to 12 rounds.
Firstly, If your opponent knows how to use a MF Libra C145WB like my buddy has recently gotten very good at using, MF
Leone WD145RF suddenly becomes a lot less effective. All it takes is MF Libra C145WB being a little more aggressively shot towards this combo and it starts KOing itself through it's own recoil. Add a tilt in there and MF Libra C145WB starts using it's Metal Wheel to screw with MF
Leone WD145RF. I worry about this combination in a competitive environment honestly. Once I got wise to my buddies shots I managed to double KO more often than not, hence the 12 rounds instead of 10. In the end he won out through being heavier >>
MF Leone 100RF vs MF Libra C145WB
Wins: 4, Losses: 5, Draws: 1
So, I think the outcome makes more sense with this combination, the height isn't an issue, but it's the weight that is detrimental to this combo. 3 out of 5 losses it was due to recoil. 2 simply because it couldn't knock Libra out. The draw is pretty obvious now, we've seen the recoil and smash attack. Similar outcome except my buddy didn't angle as much this time around, instead he just fired straighter to the center with probably 70% shooting power, the more "proper" way to use MF Libra C145WB.
Final Observations:
I think the
Leone wheel is decent but IMO unreliable, I would sooner use Storm or Quetz, and for my own personal preference Sagg, but I can say
Leone is a fun little wheel to play around with. It's probably one of the most compact MFB's currently making it that much more appealing. It's just very unfortunate that it has such a high recoil. I think this wheel would perform amazingly with a heavier lower track, but I doubt anything like that will exist in the near future LoL.
After the tournament on the 22nd I'll do some actual thorough testing for
Leone and get back to you guys, I'd rather not use up all my RF's testing stuff especially with Libra CH120RF eating them up >>
RF is a really popular bottom these days