You're not crazy, his AI IS borked.
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OK is it me or is the Oni AI just totally borked. I watched him for a solid 5 minutes throw nothing but Fire Blast then watch on the next group for another solid 5 minutes throw nothing but ring of fire?
Has any one else noticed this behavior he has to have the worst use of an attack chain I have seen...
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I made several long comments about both Oni and Jounins a while ago and people didn't seem to respond much.
But yes, if you pay attention to Oni, his AI is really quite weird. He is the only boss that doesn't cycle everything. It could be because if he cycles everything, he is too powerful?
Basically with the first upgrade, your Oni will spend a lot of time using only Ring of Fire (and Breath of Fire when it's up).
When Oni draws sword, he won't cycle anything else but those two attacks unless that target is dead.
When you have two upgrades, Oni mostly only cycle Ring of Fire and Char and randomly throw out Breath of Fire and Rain of Fire.
Oni's old AI used to be quite predictable and it's a GOOD thing. Oni used to open the battle with Breath of Fire all the time. You can put Smoke Flash on him and goto him to mid-range. He no longer does that anymore. He still uses Breath of Fire but it's pretty unpredictable.
Jounins also seem to have bad AI as well but the reason Ninja still does good damage is that Genin's damage output is very high now.
What's left is to normalize all Assassin Strikes and improve Stalker's old sets (Claw, MA and EM)! You don't need to bring back the missing PbAoE attack. You just need to make the existing ones better! For example, make Slice a WIDER and LONGER cone.
OK is it me or is the Oni AI just totally borked. I watched him for a solid 5 minutes throw nothing but Fire Blast then watch on the next group for another solid 5 minutes throw nothing but ring of fire?
Has any one else noticed this behavior he has to have the worst use of an attack chain I have seen...