Shang's pop up is the combo of choice on jump starters :eg blocked spin attempt, and as punishes for close range. Believe me, you're going to see it, but because it results in a lot of damage and setups, it needs a natural lessening of availability. Think MKII Kung Lao in MKT, you see his pop up all the time, but you also see his 5 hit kick combo a lot as well. Shang is going to be much better in this version, definitely dangerous. It's not done merely for variety, there's a selective method for making certain combos usable, and I like it.
You're not new to this site if you posted on UMK, you paradoxically predate it! After all, you have like 2600 posts from UMK that are on here.
Holy shit, was he playing on a stick/keyboard ? Those IAF are perfect. Tho it looks so god damn cheap that even if I'd be able to do them, I would feel bad for using them so often.
Looks like he's using a KB, that's how IAFB spam looks when I play on KB at least. I would say it's probably not going to be as much of a problem because of the other factors involved with nerfing and buffing Kabal, but we'll see.
actually it's a pad,the jump is mapped on the analog thumbstick down( for the right hand ) and the HP is mapped for left of the thumbstick, basically he does back-back - and pushes the stick diagonally down and left, we've discovered that even at EVO this key mapping is not forbidden and mk9 allows such thing either and technically sticks are 4 discret buttons
you dont need double back for this. I dont know why this works with Kabal, Kitana , Liu And MK2 Liu but no MK2 Kitana
That's very strange and should be banned.
Yeah, that is pretty broken, lmao. I want to map my buttons to that and test it out now tho, kinda brilliant.
my 1st reaction was the same, the only thing that could've changed my mind was Evo rules, eventually the player copy/pasted the evo rules which stated that if game allows you to do so, then it's ok and mk9 was the prior example and seems like mk9 does allow that. Isn't it so? mb there were some rule updates?
That's what I was gonna say. You assign UP to HP also, so you just press back, back, up and its a guaranteed IAF. There's even a way to assign "not" a certain key I forgot how to do it. So if you FLIP, HP isn't activated. I hate to give people idea's though. lol
have a long way to end the game?I have no idea
Completely agree. Great post.
The problem with this is Hugely the button mapping. That is just absurd dude. I cannot believe for the life of me that they would allow that, and why it is NOT banned at Evo and major tournaments is just ridiculous. They need to address some grey areas with this, especially with a situation like this.
You can even do it on stick, like a beast. I have a video from a year or two ago with not much practice and I was doing it pretty reliably. I can do it MUCH better now, after actually watching the video.
Oops, typo... the knockback is on the 9th hit!
Probably a typo, it's the 9th hit. Right now a two or three hit pop up can still result in a few relaunch juggles, like Ermac can get 11 hits 45% with just popups (starting with JPS leads to one less pop up in his case), or finish out the last possible volley with a bigger combo and break 50%. Going for them is always a risk and requires some kind of skill so at least the fact that they are still there in a limited fashion I think is good, but they have been mathematically limited as to not prevent existing combos.
