MultiVersus Season One patch brings down the nerf hammer on Bugs, Iron Giant, and Finn
The first patch for MultiVersus Season One is out today, and it pretty much affects every character in the game. Perhaps after today no one will complain about the dominance of Bugs Bunny or The Iron Giant. But game balance is a tricky thing, so we’ll have to wait and see how the alterations pan out. For fans of Bugs, The Iron Giant, or Finn, sorry, today’s MultiVersus Season One patch nerfs your favorite fighters back down the the earth. In some good news, however, the patch confirms the release date for Morty Smith.
MultiVersus players online were likely looking forward to today’s patch. All modern fighting games tend to have one overpowered character or another. In the terms of MultiVersus, there have been a few. Bugs was already in developer Player First Games’ crosshairs. He’s getting a whopping eight abilities nerfed. His Air Up Special has been tweaked to remove an exploit, the Air Side Attack gets its whiff recovery increased by five frames. The pie he throws no longer slows opponents, and its lifetime was changed from “infinite” to a mere eight seconds.
His fellows, Finn and The Iron Giant, also got it rough. For the big, metal boy, the MultiVersus patch nerfs just about every move in Season One. His Air Up Attack now can no longer hit the same opponent multiple times, for example. He got a couple of changes, too, such as tweaks for the special effects tied to his moves. Finn manage to get two buffs, one for his Air Down Special and another for the On The House perk, but his other abilities ranging from his passive to his Ground Down Attack have been nerfed.
No longer super, man?
The MultiVersus patch is certainly tough, but not without mercy. Arya was given a load of buffs today, and her Air/Ground Neutral
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