I agree with Tom, Raiden is the best character in the game. He can teleport out of some strings thus interrupting and then starting his own offense. He cannot be zoned. He cannot be over-poked. It's pretty damn hard to punish his teleport. Most importantly of all, Raiden forces you to play his game. You always watch out for electric fly and teleport and it keeps you away from focusing on your tools and more on how to avoid/punish Raiden's tools.
yep, what you must do, is, try to make Raiden start to become predictable with his own weapons tools, if you can do it, so, you can revert the "mouse trap" game ....
- His superman, while having none start-up clue (that shit is fast as hell and seems to come from "nowhere") if punishable if blocked, so, it's a matter about the time gap between Raiden's action (doing superman) and your reaction (you blocking it at time). But I think you can do it only foreseeing, not in pure reflex "reaction" , hum ?
- His teleport is punishable , IF, you can foresee too, baiting Raiden to do it, because next, most probably Raiden will do : superman, throw, B3,1, 2 or 33,4 ..... superman and combos are avoidable by blocking, throw, by jump back on reaction, JNP on reaction, or dash back on reaction, hum ? Depends in how much screen spacing you have .... or if you really know Raiden gonna go for throw after teleport, just duck without blocking, hehe (that is hard as hell to do it, I know ....
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- Isolated 33,4 and B3,1,2, don't give Raiden advantage on block, after last patch, that's right ?
- You can duck under Raiden projectile, even his Ex version ?
This does not mean anyway that is a "walk in the park" playing against Raiden, no, in fact, you should react so quick when playing Raiden, that all match can become a very stressing "seek and destroy" run party ....
I think this matchup rely much more in try to explore one or two flaws or action execution fails Raiden might do during a round, and so, punishing him with high combos with more than 30% , at least twice, taking bar leader and try to have the job done ..... than try to put natural combo pressure in a character that does not accept to be pressured.
