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Why so few FM in arena 1v1 diamond ranking?


Truce

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The reason why there are so little FMs in the higher rankings is because the class is hard to play at high rankings. At lower rankings FMs can just pve their way up to 1800 in EU. After that you can't randomly spam your abilities. Ping is also a problem for FMs, even if there is a skill delay of 0,5 it will ruin our combos. IMO just the double aerial combo isn't hard to execute, the thing is that you can cast spells between the steps which most FMs don't do in lower rankings. A perfectly executed air combo does around 40% dmg without the followup. I am able to pretty much take 80% health away at the right situations. 
Also soon we'll get our HM impact which is really strong. 
As FM you really need to know what you can do, and what you should use in matchups. Also you need to know what your opponent can do. 

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The issue is people are basing how FM should perform on the number of Fms in diamond atm, you have to take into account the % of players that are just very skilled and can hit that rank with any class, you need to look at how they perform under this rank since the other 99% of players aren't going to be diamond.

 

Saying that, FM requires so much more knowledge of other classes, you have twice as much skills to use, no invulnerability frames whiles moving (you're frozen), so ping dependent to get the right chill stacks for combos, if you can't do the double aerial combo you pretty much hit a wall in ranking up which is also very ping dependent, fm has no spammable counter like every other class until we get impact hongmoon skill which requires a crap ton of pve.

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It's mostly because of the ping. I've hit 2000 in rating and went down quite a lot yesterday because :

 

1) server had insane lag issues in arena for some reason yesterday evening and that alone just ruined everything

 

2) most of the FMs you ll meet cant use the aerial (as in, they don't even pull it off). Keep in mind that we both need the double page skill to deal with KFMs (multiple blaze), and the HM one in order to have a shot at everything else at this stage of the game. The class is "not there" just yet. That being said with the amount of very strict timing it require, not a lot of people will reach diamond. I'm still laughing when majority is saying that KFM is the hardest class to play, mechanically speaking. 

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