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Who are the most Overrated and Underrated Characters in MKX?

Pan1cMode

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because we have an accurate tier list yet right? as soon as people will look past the obvious other chars will become viable. kotal, lao, jason and ferra torr have given examples.
Kotal is not a good character.

Jason is eh.

Kung Lao is good, so is F/T.

The best chars are still those like Jax, D'Vorah, Raiden, EB who can 1 neutral once, carry you to the corner and make you keep on guessing.
 

kabelfritz

Master
Kotal is not a good character.

Jason is eh.

Kung Lao is good, so is F/T.

The best chars are still those like Jax, D'Vorah, Raiden, EB who can 1 neutral once, carry you to the corner and make you keep on guessing.
if you say so... im doing pretty ok in not letting them get going at all.
 

sinosleep

Kombatant
Erron Black is the most overrated character and it's not even close. Everytime SonicFox murders someone it's soon followed by pages upon pages of crying over Erron Black and how OP he is. If that's the case then why is it I've seen plenty of pocket Raidens doing completely unoptimized 14% combos into corner carry into corner shenanigans but no pocket Erron Blacks? Why do I see the same thing with Kung Jin? Why is it that NONE of the major counter pickers are rocking an Erron Black? Why aren't any of the non-character loyalist top players switching to him but have switched to Quan, Raiden, and Kung Jin?

Maybe cause he's not as OP as people think he is?
 

TheIrishFGCguy

Pew pew pew
because we have an accurate tier list yet right? as soon as people will look past the obvious other chars will become viable. kotal, lao, jason and ferra torr have given examples.
People keep saying this but it doesn't make sense. It doesn't matter how far into the game we are or how much more knowledgeable we are going to get, a guess is always going to be a guess. You could play this game 24/7 for 10 years and you would still be as helpless against 50/50s as you were in the first week.
 

kabelfritz

Master
People keep saying this but it doesn't make sense. It doesn't matter how far into the game we are or how much more knowledgeable we are going to get, a guess is always going to be a guess. You could play this game 24/7 for 10 years and you would still be as helpless against 50/50s as you were in the first week.
the point is that characters have tools to stop others from getting their 50/50s going at all.
 

CJKRattlehead

Two men enter, one man leaves!
Underrated: Ferra/torr (Vicious and Lackey) maybe kano too not sure if that's TYM's real opinion of kano or they just want buffs
Overrated: Raiden (Thunder God)
 
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Overrated: Inferno Scorpion is garbage. Why would anyone play this character? He literally announces everything that he is going to do and is only good on a poor connection. I guess the reason that people play him is because they can't be bothered to learn anything difficult.

Underrated: Hellfire Scorpion is miles ahead and for the guy who said "I just wait for him to run out of stamina", well, he's STILL at like a +5 advantage and can jump over your head once and have full stamina again and continue pressuring you while gaining tons of meter and chipping you away. You haven't played a good one yet; that's for sure. Usually if I catch someone trying to attack me the second I run out of stamina I EX Teleport into a full combo that leaves you standing for more pressure.

I have run into maybe two HF Scorpions ever. He has very high execution but once you learn it, it's muscle memory and you have the tools to deal with just about anything. His wakeups are lousy, but otherwise he's solid.
 

aieches

#freeHomelee2016
So there's a lot of uplaying and downplaying of characters on these forums. The title is self explanatory, so let's get to the meat and potatoes. I guarantee plenty of salt in this thread or your money back.

Most Overrated:

Scorpion: Tons of cries for normalization of this character. I admit I was one of them. But how threatening is his vortex to you or his minions? Do you realize his overhead combo starter is 25 frames? You can react to it. You can completely negate his vortex. His minions can be properly guarded against as well. I believe as time moves on, this character will drop from his supposed top tier status.

Most Underrated:

There's a lot of characters who I feel are underrated, but I'll choose just one.

Takeda: So much complaining of how weak this character is. Well maybe not so much with his recent buffs. But still, I see Takeda as a very strong, very scary character. And I think Shirai Ryu is overshadowing the potential of his other variations, especially Lasher. As time moves on, I see this character rising in the tiers and doing very well in a lot more tournaments.

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Do you agree or do you not disagree? What are your opinions on most overrated and underrated characters?

i disagree - but i will give you a legit reason by comparing the two you have.. I play Takeda and even though he is good -he is right now only mid tier at best.. every day i ask myself why dont i just use scorpion. lb for lb scorpion is the better option logically to use. Armor is WAY better, pokes WAY are better, knock down are better or about even , he has a true vortex in one variation that i know of , meterless damage is better, Confirms are way better // Easier, his spear semi-tracks, his tele has better tracking, hitboxes are godlike on some moves, xray is better (debatable- yes i know, but personally, id rather have it as it can be used as a wake up option vs being an air overhead), and has better strings with less gaps and more high low options.

Takeda does have a few things in his favor but in the long run takedas own moveset seems to be his worst enemy. Yes we have a great njp- but it has a wonky hitbox. yes we have tele & kunai cancels, but scorpions FB cancel is still favored by comparison.

so really its like why play SR takeda when all varations of scorpion seem to do all the jobs you would need and better.. Yest takeda (debatably) may have better mid screen control- BUT- MKX is not a game that rewards for this style of play in the long run . plus , one false move and once someone is on takeda, hes is fragile. and if you ever did have 3 bars for a wake up Xray - you have to jump to pull it off- which is not easy when you are facing a raiden, erron , scorpion etc.
Also to speak on Ronin - lightsaber combos with drop and call are def not for everybody. Just as Quan Chi's rune combos with execution . yet the damage is mediocre at best without dipping into 2 bars .

NOW IM NOT saying that scorpion needs nerfs or takeda is trash, far from it but i am saying that scorpion is just not overated, He is VERY good in this game for both high level and low level players. And i wouldnt say takeda is Underated as most anybody that truly plays him will say that YES HE IS GOOD, but that hes very flawed. with his new buffs it does help him tremendously but still he is far from underrated.

Takeda is a hard read to find out what can be changed without making him OP, i will admit that. but there is a line in which he needs to walk to be a threat and hes just not there yet.

other fighters with this is i feel are
some versions of
mileena
kitana
Unbreakble subzero
shinnok
reptile

theres prob more but these are all i have tried putting in time with

i think that with certain versions of these fighters along with Takeda that small WISE AND THOUGHTFUL tweaks can bring them up the totem pole.

oh and id like to add that yeah the FB cancels do require skill - that i do know- so im not knocking that.. but id rather have a cancel that requires more skill if i got the same type of payout .
 
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Inferno Scorpion is way overrated. I think it's his worst variation.

But simple execution, big damage, and it's harder to fuzzy guard him online. High and low demons are -27. Lots of available punishes.

Hellfire will be underrated unless you play against him offline where he can hit confirm everything
 

KeyserSoze

Fabled Villain
Jason is preposterously underrated.

As for which characters are overrated, I'm not quite sure. No one really jumps out to me.