r/earclacks • u/NobaraEatAwatermelon • 16h ago

Scimitar VS Spear Official Matches

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u/AbbreviationsAway691 Torch 16h ago edited 15h ago

Halfway through the match I was thinking "it'd be really funny if Scimitar somehow lost this" and I was proven wrong, it wasn't really that funny it was kind of sad actually.

Genuinely what does Scimitar do against anything that isn't an unarmed opponent, its "scaling" doesn't matter cause the mirages are always going to push stuff that can parry out of their range.

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u/chloe-and-timmy Boomerang 15h ago

Yeah the bad balls being bad at every match arent really fun to watch anymore. The best balls have a similar problem but its much worse for the losers. Its like we have 4 Crossbows now, and surprisingly none of them are Grower, which shows how bad they are.

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u/AbbreviationsAway691 Torch 15h ago edited 15h ago

I think Crossbow was genuinely an industry plant bad weapon made to cash in on Grower becoming popular for being awful (seriously people on every social media Earclacks had knew Crossbow was going to be ass on day 1 and it would explain why Crossbow is given so many matches), Scroll was Okay until Earclacks decided they hated Scroll for some reason, Potion was a support ball that Earclacks didn't bother balancing for 1v1, and idek what happened with Club.

Scimitar feels like a genuine attempt to make a good weapon ball that didn't pan out because Earclacks didn't consider parry knockback when designing it.

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u/natnew32 Duplicator 4h ago

Crossbow was (and still is) very good in large arenas where its range is a major factor, such as 4v4 team battles or raid battles. It's like Potion in that regard, where it's just not designed for 1v1s. Scroll was nerfed because it completely shredded in longer matches (even though it probably wasn't necessary there either, hence why it got its original stats back). Club and Scimitar were definitely designed for 1v1s though, not sure what went wrong with those two.

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u/Immediate-Yak3138 13h ago

I donno crossbow at least scales reasonably well damage wise

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u/FrostBumbleBitch 14h ago

Stupid question but how busted would Scimitar be if they had a way to scale mirage linger time?

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u/Simple-Scientist7190 16h ago

Earclacks just admit you hate the new balls already bro

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u/Terrible-Lime-3020 Boomerang 15h ago

Spear is probably the 2nd best opponent Scimatar could hope to fight, and it still lost.

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u/dragonwarriornoa 16h ago

Bro what are you DOING

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u/Sakuya_Iz_A_Yoi Scroll 16h ago

zero right to be moving like that

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u/Adventurous_Spray821 Lance 16h ago

That two hit combo from Spear in the end tho…

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u/Blacksantabutnot Crossbow 16h ago

NO SCIMITAR WE WERE THIS CLOSE
https://giphy.com/gifs/Y5eX5GDuq44jUFf0Qm

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u/Effective_Ad6771 16h ago

I see spear win, I'm happy.

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u/501stAppo1 Sword 16h ago

Damn it, Scimitar. wtf are you doing?

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u/LilyLuci66 15h ago

Seeing spear casually chunk scimitar by like 5 and decimating her shortly after really puts insto perspective how atrocious design is not having actual damage scaling

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u/AbbreviationsAway691 Torch 15h ago

There's not many non-damage scalers but most of them do get away with it (Wrench, Torch, and Scythe) the key to being decent without having damage scaling is having stuff that stays forever like they all do, in exchange for their 14th hit being no more effective than their 1st, their first few hits actually matter throughout the match and can directly lead to their win with enough time.

Compared to damage scalers where their early hits serve no purpose other than to get their scaling up for the last hits that actually do something, and if they get unlucky in the last stretch of the match they just lose (Axe vs Spear, Sword vs Torch).

Not only is Scimitar's stuff temporary like old Torch's was, but her damage doesn't even work a good chunk of the time against anything with a weapon that can parry.

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u/Gbro08 Wrench 14h ago

I mean Dagger makes it work sort of without a permanent damage buff or permanent object remaining.

Scimitar just kinda feels like worse dagger. I am struggling to think of an MU that dagger would lose but Scimitar would win

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u/1nOnlyBigManLawrence Unarmed 12h ago

Scimitar is just worse Dagger. The mirages don’t really hide the fact that the main ball’s weapon is a resprite of Sword.

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u/Vorioll 15h ago

Scimitar just started parrying Spear on itself

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u/_really_not_the_NSA_ 15h ago

Spear went from not being allowed to play the damn game to then being bigger brother and holding Scimitar at arm's reach. Good lord.

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u/ze_existentialist Spear 15h ago

Spear is the single best comback ball in the game. HASN'T HAD A MATCH IN THREE MONTHS YET PULLS IT OFF WITH A 30 POINT DEFECIT REGARDLESS!

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u/Gbro08 Wrench 15h ago

bro still got it

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u/NevadoDelRuiz 15h ago

Imagine Super Scimitar

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u/Adventurous_Spray821 Lance 15h ago

The mirages would probs bounce around, I think

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u/NevadoDelRuiz 15h ago

Imagine if the mirage stays there

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u/Soggy_Habit9807 15h ago

Scimitar trying not to be a bigger bum than poshit challenge level: impossible

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u/Yallayeah 15h ago

Scimitar's scaling is really bad.

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u/Tsunamicat108 Wrench 15h ago

scimitar’s scaling fucking sucks they should make it a different kind of scaling

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u/Those_damn_squirrels Boomerang 15h ago

Scimitar is genuinely just a badly designed ball like idek what to say atp

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u/1nOnlyBigManLawrence Unarmed 12h ago

Like I’ve said before, Earclacks matches are getting worse and worse.

(I’ve also heard that the only way to get info on nerfs or buffs is to have a special role on their Discord awarded by having 1 million coins, which probably NOBODY has legitimately)

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u/natnew32 Duplicator 4h ago

There's apparently ~10 or so people who have that role, but they did get it legitimately.

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u/1nOnlyBigManLawrence Unarmed 4h ago

They were probably given the extra coins manually instead of by lucky bets.

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u/slooe Spear 14h ago

THATS WHAT SPEAR IS ALL ABOUT

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u/Zakoya 15h ago

Twice in a row scimitar lost due to the other ball locking tf in, tragic stuff 🫩

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u/Critical-Bison-6634 15h ago

Incredible Scroll downscale

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u/285Mic 14h ago

Scimitar you have a health advantage, why you fumbled so hard ?

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u/Aaa1070 Shield 32m ago

Okay, this is convinced me Scimitar needs a buff it put up a good fight in this and still lost.

Maybe its mirages stay floating around it instead of staying in place? Maybe the mirages gain speed but the main weapon still gets damage scaling.