The meme on NA is that JP seems more popular because the OPPO parties clear fast.

I’m comfy with both and think that people should pick whatever makes sense but I think there are a lot of merits to the lack of movement of JP.

I end up in oppo parties more and people clip the fires and forget their directions a lot haha

jp is the only one my brain can easily and consistently understand, though I’m sure I could learn another strat given enough time. Once you learn and practice it it’s fairly consistent. I feel like it’s less thinking too, no need to worry about rotation, just straight lines.

JP seems hard when you are learning it because of the tight timing on 2/6 fire. Once you learn what LC1 is doing and have fully processed the responsibility of each role, though, it’s the easiest.

You can make JP LC1 much more reliable by positioning a step closer to middle before crossing over if you are 2/6 fire. And also by reacting quickly and knowing where you are going in advance. Also sprint, obviously.

My group started with Krile and we had to switch because it was just way too much variance. JP was picked up in like an hour. Haven’t tried Oppo but I believe it has the same Def movement as Krile which we found had a lot of failure conditions if someone gets a bad read at the beginning.

I’ve been using JP since day 2 of the tier. I find it to be more straightforward than it looks.

I think oppo is safer because JP really needs the 6 marker to be on top of the ball (or do non-standard positioning, which is actually what I would recommend).

Oppo for sure. It’s the same movement repeated 4x, much simpler. In JP the timing for #6 bait is tight and constantly causes issues. There are slight modifications that can be made to fix that, but then that’s another thing people have to remember so it just makes it worse again. Oppo is the way.

I prefer Oppo. Stand on one of two spots, run in a circle. Resolve a mechanic if you need to. I hate getting third defamation or fire punch during JP.