(Sep. 15, 2021 8:28 PM)BuilderROB Wrote: (Sep. 15, 2021 8:20 PM)MagikHorse Wrote: This is the exact reason why it only matters in those older formats. If Bearing is already not bursting in Standard than Bearing' only makes it possible to use two Bearings in a deck, and that's all the impact it could have. With so many high-LAD options in Standard already... that's sort of meaningless now, isn't it?
Tapered and Over brought Bearing back from the dead and allows Bearing to OS drift, so Bearing’ being more versatile on other combos actually makes me think it’s gonna be very useful now compared to before. For example, I used a dynamite combo on Over bearing and it ended up bursting against a rage combo. With Valkyrie I didn’t think it would burst but it ended up happening anyways. I think that combos like that would greatly benefit from Bearing’ and would not burst hardly at all anymore.
Competitively I've seen Bearing burst
once, and that was on a Vanish Bahamut combo that faced Rage. Once, and never again. Of course I only saw matches I was in or judged, but still notable given that I won my first tournament mostly on the back of Vanish Bahamut Tapered Bearing -6.
No, I don't think that the (presumably slight) change in Burst resistance is a significant factor. If I add up every Bearing match together from my first two Standard tournaments I can say it already bursts less than 5% of the time as it is. Does it really matter if it goes from 5% to 2%, especially now that Guilty has been released and is good at smacking Bearing around?
You talk about versatility, but we don't even know how strong it's spring really is. You're hitting the panic button prematurely, and missing a lot of other factors like using Guilty as a counter to it. It's possible that Belial's Evo will be able to smack it around a lot too, or the more niche right spin Astral or Savior attack combo.
Older formats are a lot touchier, since bursting is far more commonplace. The stronger spring will matter a lot more for them than it will for Standard, and the same thing is true of Metal Drift. This is exactly why I say it matters for them, while for Standard it is almost meaningless.
People, stop jumping on the gosh darned banhammer so quickly. Banning is the last resort. Stop treating it as the initial gut reaction for something that's not even out yet.
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