Street Justice without Shin Breaker?

[VPrime]

Is this viable, or would it be too weak overall?

[aethereal]

32 minutes ago, VPrime said:

Is this viable, or would it be too weak overall?

 

You just don't like the animation or something?

 

Shin Breaker is the best combo-builder attack in the set.  Can you get by without it?  Sure.  You can use Initial Strike, Heavy Blow, and Rib Cracker to build your combos and everything will be fine.  You probably won't be able to get by without Initial Strike if you don't take Shin Breaker.  You will be weaker than if you took it.  But like...  if you just want "viable," and not "high performance," I'm sure it'd be fine.

[Championess]

I tend to have to pare down power choices from assaults and yeah on my StJ characters Shin Breaker is the one I end up cutting though I'm loathe to do so it's a good attack and looks cool.  It's a tossup between Rib Cracker and Shin Breaker if I have to drop a power and I'd keep Rib Cracker since they're pretty similar except it does -res instead of -def, I know you could slot the Achilles but it wouldn't be an ideal proc rate so I'd rather take the certain -res.

 

The powers I end up with always are Initial Strike, Combat Readiness, Rib Cracker, Spinning Strike for aoe (not bad on tankers), and Crushing Uppercut.  You can quickly build stacks through Rib Cracker/Initial Strike and Combat Readiness.