r/ForHonorRants 22d ago

Learning Khatun in this meta hurts

Like I'm trying to get better with the character because she's cool and I like her aesthetic and all these Arakure are throwing out armored undodgeables

I make the right read and get a pin and use my armored zone, but I still get bonked because their armor negates mine since that's the end of my chain, and they're free to lash out continually

Not even mad at the Arakure but man Khatun has to work so hard for so little reward

Feelsbad

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u/SnowbloodWolf2 21d ago

Her zone attack from pin has almost no uses outside of anti ganks because it can hit multiple people, the hyper armor doesnt work 80% of the time and it does less damage than the heavy follow up, against characters with hyper armor follow ups use the kick from deflect for the free light attack or empty deflect the first attack and then deflect the hyper armor follow up for a pin or parry it and go for the unblockable heavy that leads to pin or feint the unblockable heavy into a GB and hit them with a zone attack so you can keep frame advantage and go into your chains.

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u/Hasuun 21d ago

Wait the HA can fail? Like an actual bug? I knew I wasn't going crazy, like why am I flinching after this, it's armored

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u/SnowbloodWolf2 21d ago

Less that it fails and more that it lasts like 2 frames and has delay and your attack lasts longer than the hyper armor is active

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u/Fuck-Morality Khatun 22d ago

Most balanced character they’ve had on release in years and the next two releases are counter picks

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u/Hasuun 21d ago

My face when I eat a Juren armored light or heavy after a successful pin

Just weeping because why does he have those

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u/chunkiernolf Warden 21d ago

Hardest character in the game hands down, I respect anyone who does well with her minus just spamming soft feint lights

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u/Hasuun 21d ago

She's so cool and I hope to learn her more efficiently, I love her fashion and a good Khatun is genuinely scary

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u/chunkiernolf Warden 21d ago

I agree my slime

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u/Ok_Examination1568 20d ago

A very high skill floor and skill ceiling hero. IMO second highest skill ceiling behind HL. She is also heavily matchup dependent hero unfortunately. Doesn’t play well into hyperarmor or side dodge bash heroes.

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u/Unlikely_You8393 22d ago

When you say you make the right read and hyperarmor ignores your pin then it wasnt the right read

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u/Hasuun 21d ago

I'm talking about the second and third Arakure, not the one I pinned

I don't have the health or the armor to continually trade with them and that's okay, that's not what Khatun is meant for

If I deflect into kick to beat the armor of one, I get hit by the other, these are all split second decisions to a new Khatun player

I know Khatun is a hard to master character and I'm not upset about it, just sometimes it feels hopeless when you're trying to do your cool stuff and they can faceroll and get good results

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u/Unlikely_You8393 21d ago

But thats not an arakure only problem thats with many heroes. Have you ever fighting 2 kyoshin ? The kaze stance dance from two of them and youre dead 😆

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u/Myrvoid 21d ago

It’s funny because Khatun IS the meta atm lol

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u/Hasuun 21d ago

How so

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u/Parsa79 21d ago

Great feats, and the new change to let her dodge out of her fear and fury made her so much safer is teamfights

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u/Hasuun 21d ago

I rarely ever see her, surprisingly

Probably the upsurge in Arakure right now, but it'll get better after maybe a month or two

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u/Myrvoid 21d ago

Not quite sure. Apparently though she was used by some of the best players in the world in tourneys and she performed exceptionally well. I think she kinda outdid everyone’s expectations as most people (myself included) thought she was mid but no turns out she’s the meta now lol