Thanks man. Erron has those 50/50s but if you never let him in he's not a much of a problem. Also, you can kind of fuzzy the overhead/low if it's offline without lag. I guess it comes down to learning his block strings and then finding an opening after blocking correctly.
Ah ok, yea we played at one of my friends house and it felt brutal. Being in the corner felt like death lol. The one thing I felt that worked like a charm was the backdash though. Anything else up close felt like he was always one step ahead and I was fighting uphill. Gotta do it again on Friday so I can't have it go down like that again lol.
Well he can't be plus after everything, in fact, most characters are negative on strings and pokes on block. Especially if he commits to a sand splash thing without hit confirming. You can get 112 after blocking that into full combo. Also, use b23 as a wiff punish, I just started using that string more after seeing a wiff or something that looks safe because of the distance. It has good distance and you can get the grenade combo from it
Dude. The way you got in against that Kitana was impressive. I hope I never have to face something like that online. I'd have an aneurysm.
God. I had to adjust big time because I got 3-0ed in winners lol. Cossner was next to me and was like "just down 4 under the fans and walk forward a little and wait for him to get to the corner or do something dumb" and I listened and it worked
Yea I was punishing sand on block, but he didn't throw it out recklessly too often. You're dead on about B23. No idea why I didn't think of trying it. On whiff I was throwing out a knife haha.
You can upball people on a hard read if they try to do crouch pokes after they do a string that is zero on block. The buffering window for specials is bigger than for normals and its easy to get the upball out frame perfect. Upball is 5 frames in this game so every now and then you should use it just to get into your opponents head. Same thing applies to the straight ball. People have to be made wary that you will throw it out and hit them with it if they get too predictable, they start blocking more after only getting hit once or twice because they are greedy for the punish.
I am beginning to look into cutthroat again as well. I'm actually quite pleased with the char since I'm finding all the variations are viable in different ways. But I miss b2 in cyber quite a bit when I'm not using it. Honestly haven't nailed down a MU yet where I feel commando is best, but I enjoy trying my luck at it and am successful kinda often . Insta run into cmd grabs have been eluding me but I think they will be needed as will tick throws.
Swarm Queen/Venomous D'Vorah.
I will agree with Sub, takes some work to take on a grandmaster but I've never faced an unbreakable yet. Tbh that's the only char on the list that I've faced someone who was a competent user. The rest of them have been eluding me except for the lagging scorpion army and only like two of them even did combo's lol. Would be nice to run into some good players. You play rooms, vs. matches, or private?
Yea they don't feel too fun to play lol. I actually think Scorpion is even worse a MU than Sub-Zero though.?He has more answers than most for Kano and can turn one missed knife into a 35-39% vortex. You gotta play this MU in slow but with double the brain lol.
I've played against great subzeros and Sonya and they are definitely in kanos favor imo. Can't comment on devorah and scorpion though
Sonya maybe I don't know the match too much but what in the world makes you think the Sub match is in his favor?
Kano knives recover to quickly. He cant throw a clone and trade with projectiles like he can in other mus so he haaas to approach you. The only way he can approach is by sliding or jumping in again because of how quickly knives recover. Both options are very unsafe and a jump in is easily aa by b1 and slide is very punishable. Besides the close, Kano also has considerably better footsie tools such as knives, f4, d4, b1, b2 , etc.. Also all of subzeros 50/50 are easily punishable with b1 unless he ends in ex ball.. Also if trapped in the corner ex knives are the perfect tool to escape and actually start your own pressure. Also sub can't clone out of kanos pressure and his armored options are unsafe
I'd love to play a good scorpion but who has one?
I'm gonna have to take this into account next time I play one. I have had the majority of my problems when up close against him, but not really at distance or even getting out of the corner which I feel Kano does better than most of Subs opponents. It's mainly inside of nuetral range that always feels like a mission. I'm gonna take a lot of this into account for next time.
In one of those online tourneys I played a guy in the semi's with a Scorpion that was just insane. I was so salty that after it I added him and played like 30 games and probably lost 20 of them. Then I've been playing him about 3 or 4 times after but always come out with something like 14-25 each time. When I go back online I'll ask if I can share his tag to a really good player who wants to play Scorpion and I'll PM you it. Hopefully you can figure something out I'm not seeing here.
Yea that'd be great. Thanks
when u play sub especially grandmaster just zone them out. I feel that commandomkano is the best since u can throw a knife and immediately parry his slide so sub has no option but to come in on u and even then Kano has an amazing close game