What's new

Johnny Cage matchup chart

GuamoKun

I Break Hearts, Not Combos
Lol I forgot about P1 BS. Well then, yea, its 6-4 Cage if he's P1. That crap was so dumb.

And yea Kitana vs Cage is one of my favorite and most played MUs. Hella fun. Footsies and IAFs!... Til he punches her vagina
dat feel when you whiff a d1 to make him do a f3 to punish it but then you're like

"excuse me uhmmm hold this d4" and then you dash up into throw.
 

Kakashi

Noob
Sindel: 6.5-3.5? I don't think so. that Match is 6-4 ,Sindel win.

I don't think that someone can beat Oscar Broly's Sindel with Johnny Cage. :cool:

And yes, I know not everyone knows Oscar Broly.
 
Last edited:

xKhaoTik

The Ignore Button Is Free
Sindel: 6.5-3.5? I don't think so. that Match is 6-4 ,Sindel win.

I don't think that someone can beat Oscar Broly's Sindel with Johnny Cage. :cool:
No. Cage definitely wins that match. All she is doing to him is zoning, and her zoning is nothing more than a nuisance (chip and slight damage). He has better normals, faster normals, better pokes, better moves, just better overall. She has nothing to help her against his pressure, especially with her having a big hitbox.


If the zoning is on point, she's tough, but he'll get in eventually, and then its GGs.
 

NRF CharlieMurphy

Kindergarten Meta
Sindel: 6.5-3.5? I don't think so. that Match is 6-4 ,Sindel win.

I don't think that someone can beat Oscar Broly's Sindel with Johnny Cage. :cool:

And yes, I know not everyone knows Oscar Broly.
my bologna has a first name

its O-S-C-A-R

my bologna has a second name...... its B-R-O....... wait.... that doesnt' work

Sindel is bad and my post as well as your post is bad!!!

Self Infraction
 
@khaotik it's only 5-5 if p1 advantage didn't exist ;_;

but yeah I think Kitana Cage is a really fun match to play its full of THE FOOTSIES AND ALL THAT NEUTRAL GROUND GAME THAT MAKES MK SO AMAZING YESSSS

also @Peckapowa WHERE THE HELL IS CSZ

ITS LIKE A 6-4 IN CSZ FAVOR BECAUSE CSZ DICTATES WHAT JOHNNY CAGE CAN DO SO LIKE YEAH BECAUSE PARRY AND AND AND BECAUSE DIVEKICKS + BOMB SHENANIGANS

edit: yes I mad
fixed
 
Disagree with Lao, Smoke, Kitana, Reptile and Skarlett numbers 100%

Haven't even cared to look through for more, those are the ones that jumped out at me.
 

A F0xy Grampa

Problem X Promotions
Foxy does not break the mechanics of the game. Jk/dk will suddenly not stop being beaten by an uppercut because Foxy's doing it. Now, I'm sure he might use the tactic differently to some, or maybe have better spacing on his jk/dk but the concept, as well as the ways to beat it, remains the same. Move property, frame data, etc... don't change. I have a huge respect for Foxy and he is an innovator but this idea that you can just Jk/dk all day until your opponent gets super frustrated and it opens him up to other things only works to a certain extent. A good Cage who knows his spacing and punishes will not fall to the same routine gimmick without making adjustments, and I'm someone who genuinely believes Bird Lao is a good strategy that helps Kung Lao in some of his bad match-ups (notably Cage and Sonya).
You'd have to do the uppercut before the JK connects really, and the JK is near enough instant and max range. So uppercutting is 12% but a long whiff so you risk a full combo if you just dash and block and the opponent throws an uppercut.

But I think over time I found KL cage to be more of a 5-5.
 

RTM2004

Revenant Jade
Sindel: 6.5-3.5 she is free to pressure, and her projectiles only do chip and meter.
More like 3-7 for Sindel her zoning only can take her so far with 2% chip blocked Fireball or 7% Fireball.
Rooftop is like her only chance to zone freely.
Her 2-8 MUs are literally Kung Lao, Cyrax, Kabal, Smoke realm...

Her D1 is too short, her D3 suck, her 12f Uppercut is too slow, she has no armor to escape pressure. Her blocked Fireball, Step Up, Hair Whip point blank puts her -7 and she has to block Johnny's F3 meta pressure. On wake up she is free to cross up jip and jump kicks, even her U4 can't save her. Her Step Up Cartwheel can be njp combo punish or let it whiff out of range. Johnny Cage can even EX Nutpunch armor her on wake ups and even her Levitate Cancel gimmicks which gives him even more free pressure. Her jump back Air Fireball has whiff recovery which he can forward dash super good closes space, block and jab her out of the air with standing 1. He has a low hitbox while she has a big hitbox prone to his endless block strings and pressure. A top pro Johnny Cage player like Curbolicous won't ever lose to a Sindel. She is better online though.

I think what would make Sindel viable if given the right reasonable buffs better would be:
-Armor on EX Step Up as wake-up attack or on EX Low Fireball (Armor on EX Scream would be broken)
-Hair Whip on block has safe push back
-Less frames on U4 to be useful as anti-cross up attack
-More range on her D1 poke
-U3 and F3 an overhead normal
-Give her a medium sized hitbox crouching
-Standing 4 can be cancelled for a footsie tool like 4~Special
 

NickDaGreek1983

Oh, my days !
Guys, seriously... Check out Oscar Broly's Sindel. Seriously...

I know nothing about the match up btw...

Peckapowa, thanks for bringing back some MK9 interest to the forums!
 

Kakashi

Noob
check it out:

These videos do not demonstrate that Oscar would win, but at least you can see the level.


 
Last edited:
check it out:

These videos do not demonstrate that Oscar would win, but at least you can see the level.



You see i was hesitant to call it a 7-3 because i felt sindel is a underrated slash unexplored... now you show me videos of an alien from outerspace doing just frame down 4 levi cancels and i am willing to reconsider my positions and apologize for saying i would wax his ass. This is somewhat how i envisioned her looking at her frames and nomrals in training mode at the highest level... but that cage isn't as good as mine, not nearly as good.

Most of these numbers i was operating under the premise of i think these characters weren't fully tapped... which i why i put reptile and smoke as 5-5s

Reptile at the highest level is a space control god, and at the highest level cage becomes much more limited... Still sindel has serious issues dealing with cage pressure, and personally i am very good at zoning and dealing with it. I am a neutral game guy. I also know sindel's frame data... I like my chances vs any sindel
 

REO

Undead
check it out:

These videos do not demonstrate that Oscar would win, but at least you can see the level.


Awesome Sindel. I think that Broly guy is the closest it's ever gonna get to revealing Sindel's truest potential.

I stressed multiple times that Sindel was very underrated in MK9 and even brought up the fact she has a block infinite in the corner as some of my reasons being so, lol. I really do believe people need to stop with the "no one is ever going to be able to do that" comments of the such from now on when it comes to fighting games and execution since Broly is proving the guys who say things along those lines wrong once again. Honestly, usually when players say that no one is going to be able to do something, there comes some guy from out of no where that can do it. It's happened time and time again.

Does this Broly guy play online at all? PC or 360?
 
Awesome Sindel. I think that Broly guy is the closest it's ever gonna get to revealing Sindel's truest potential.

I stressed multiple times that Sindel was very underrated in MK9 and even brought up the fact she has a block infinite in the corner as some of my reasons being so, lol. I really do believe people need to stop with the "no one is ever going to be able to do that" comments of the such from now on when it comes to fighting games and execution since Broly is proving the guys who say things along those lines wrong once again. Honestly, usually when players say that no one is going to be able to do something, there comes some guy from out of no where that can do it. It's happened time and time again.

Does this Broly guy play online at all? PC or 360?
Didn't @Mr. Mileena play like this labeling Sindel a "mini Kabal"?
 
Sindel: 6.5-3.5? I don't think so. that Match is 6-4 ,Sindel win.

I don't think that someone can beat Oscar Broly's Sindel with Johnny Cage. :cool:

And yes, I know not everyone knows Oscar Broly.
No, Sindel loses. The thing is Oscar is extremely good with Sindel, and it just proves that if you're good with somebody, you can win a matchup (for the most part, excluding MU's like Jade vs Kenshi)

His Sindel is very good and his consistent D4 levi cancels make me want to marry him
 

REO

Undead
Didn't @Mr. Mileena play like this labeling Sindel a "mini Kabal"?
No, he didn't play like Broly. There's a night and day difference between Broly's Sindel and other Sindels just by visuals. I've never played or seen a Sindel that can do d+4~levi and b+1~levi so fluid and consistent like Broly can. Heck, can any of them even do it in practice mode 10 out of 10? I would be amazed at that feat alone, let alone in actual tournament matches. Broly's insane movement with her also reeks of the by product to what you ascend to when you ONLY invest time into a character as a pure main after too many hours of experience.

Mr. Mileena was definitely the best Sindel in the US scene, however. It's just he was more of a Kitana main and Sindel wasn't his dedicated sole focus so that's why their skill on the characters are far apart. I do remember him making that "mini Kabal" comment which is kind of funny if you think about it.
 

ChaosTheory

A fat woman came into the shoe store today...
No, he didn't play like Broly. There's a night and day difference between Broly's Sindel and other Sindels just by visuals. I've never played or seen a Sindel that can do d+4~levi and b+1~levi so fluid and consistent like Broly can. Heck, can any of them even do it in practice mode 10 out of 10? I would be amazed at that feat alone, let alone in actual tournament matches. Broly's insane movement with her also reeks of the by product to what you ascend to when you ONLY invest time into a character as a pure main after too many hours of experience.

Mr. Mileena was definitely the best Sindel in the US scene, however. It's just he was more of a Kitana main and Sindel wasn't his dedicated sole focus so that's why their skill on the characters are far apart. I do remember him making that "mini Kabal" comment which is kind of funny if you think about it.
I always thought Sindel was better than she got credit for (coming from a Sub-Zero player). But I just watched those vids of Broly for the first time. I feel like I'm tough to impress, but that was some of the most impressive shit I've seen in this game.

I actually felt myself getting aggravated watching all that work being done with IAFB's and Levi-cancels and then seeing Cage throw out jabs everywhere, land just one, and outdo Sindel just like that. Same with Sektor.