having a hard time in the kano matchup. any tips on getting in on him that i may be missing? what do you guys think of the pairing? with no armor and no teleport, and a projectile game that seems to flat out lose to his...man...i feel like i have to work sooooooooooooooooooooooo hard to get in. once i'm there i'm comfortable but damn.
help me plz.
Kano vs Kitana is like 7-3 in Kano's favor right now... she loses the projectile war and when she gets in, she has to respect upball. If you want to stop the momentum of knife spam, jump over a knife and do an EX Air Fan...you will trade with the next knife, but Kano will be in such big hitstun that you can advance on him. Try to stay around 1/2 screen so you can punish knife throws with jump punch combos and whiffed upballs if they are stupid lol
dash>block in until you are just about jump range and try and bait his force push or force lift, and punish either of them with a full f21 BnB combo.
After blocking the force push (bf1) at around sweep distance, she cannot punish with her f21. She can only get a dash in 21 combo. Blocking the force lift gives her whatever she wants though.
So I tried playing against an insanely good Nightwolf that kept dash-blocking rushing me with mix-ups. I tried to do iAF's and he kept reflecting them everytime..like he knew they were coming. Even up close he still reacted to the iAF, either that or he got extremely lucky. I also tried doing the double iAF so the second fan will dissapear but it wasn't working? Am I doing it too slow? Maybe patched?
Don't fight him from full screen...but beware of shoulder tackles. If you are closer, he can't react as well to iAF's. Punish lightning attempts that you can jump out of with an EX Air Fan on the way down into f21 BnB. If he has meter to break, just do a normal fan and dash in.
If you knock him down and you are close, dash in and do a d3 on his wakeup. If he does anything but an invincible wakeup EX Shoulder Tackle, you will hit him out of it. If he does the EX Shoulder Tackle, your d3 will whiff but you recover in time to block and he was forced to use meter to get you off of him.
Kitana doesn't have much to get out of lightning after being hit by a shoulder tackle while grounded (IIRC, you can do quick recovery from being hit out of the air with a tackle). So look to see if he is trying to do the lightning and do a wakeup square boost. The recovery is so long on the lightning that you will be safe and next to him.
Nightwolf has one of the best uppercuts in the game, don't jump at him if he is free to move around.
This is a hard battle for sure.