My thoughts on Smoke:
• #6 in the game
• Loses to Jax, Sonya and maybe cage 4-6
• Loses to Lao and Kabal 3-7.
• He beats Freddy 7-3 or worse... he's just too easy to space out Freddy literally needs to take risky jumps and risky 22[1+2]...
I don't see in any way shape or form how Lao can go 5-5 with that kind of mobility, the jailing jabs, the divekick to punish sb on reaction, the roll to control his spacing even further, and Smoke's lack of pressure / chip on his safe blockstrings. (Ex. 21[1+2], 2121212) He makes it hard for Smoke to runaway, even at a +3 advantage from a D3 he can throw out a 2 and smck your B2 in the face because of it's superb range and speed. Honestly, you could argue it isn't a 3-7, but i personally don't feel it's a 5-5.... He builds more meter, has better pressure and gets in too easy imo.
Same goes for Jax. It's hard to keep him away when he can superman any Smokeballs on reaction and F413 jails. You need to keep running from Jax or play risks. If you run your cornering yourself and he can then reset you to hell.
Honestly Smoke's reset does help a lot in all of the MU's, before i thought it wasn't as big a deal. I mean, without he's still good, but a few MU's would become worse imo. Resets are the only thing keeping him in the Kabal MU.
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any thoughts on Smoke, or disagreements? Just curious on every elses thoughts about him.