EGP Wonder_Chef
Official Quan Chi Nerf Demander™
shit i went out let me respond to each of these real quick
all right I won't argue about sheeva. all i'm going to say is people might not be playing the best sheevas
I wouldn't say within sweep range Reptile wins. Smoke's normals are REALLY good and reach really far. B2 can bring the game into neutral (which is bad for Rep) at close rage, and smoke bomb can whiff punish d4s if you use them too much. His d3 is also really good, so he can just dash d3 and try to outpoke your d4.
If they can do IATUs on reaction, they can still hit you out of charging an EN Forceball. And remember he gets 40% for a bar/31% meterless for you trying to do that.
I think I changed this one idk who even counts as a good noob player, haha.
It's not just Krayzie, it's every damn Cyrax. Reptile always has to play off of reads, and all of his risk reward is HUGELY out of his favor against Cyrax. Not to mention i just don't see a single spot on the screen where Reptile wins at all.
I feel like Kano's tools can deal with all of Reptile's. He can throw lots of daggers and play footsies with him etc. I would like to know why you think Rep wins here.
Yeah but glow is totally free and can work, at the very least it allows her to dash past a SFB. Also her inside normals like d3, d4, 12, are good enough to be really annoying for Reptile who can't do much against it but dash. Lastly EN Glow is still safe armor, which can fight back against a lot of Reptile pressure.
I don't.
For Smoke, see what i said to Joker. And he can still do d3 to escape EN Dash, which is about as much as normal people can. I wouldn't call that a disadvantage. Also what character has any special way to deal with d4 xx Acid Hand on block? It only does like 2.3% chip so it isn't THAT threatening.
I've played this match probably a thousand hundred bajillion times with Tyrant. He says 5/5 not just from his experience with me but with other Reptiles. Just sitting and waiting for his F4 chain and punishing doesn't work as well as it used to, there are more than enough ways to get around that now.
Just crossup JK xx Fan isn't necessarily why I think it's even. A lot of kits now like Khaotik, Konqrr and Guamo are agreeing that it's even now too.
IDK most are pretty easy to get around for Lao. That matchup is really bad, Pboard says it's one of his favorite matchups.
Kano Reptile 5-5 lol. Chef pls
For some reason a bunch of people play Kano a lot in SoCal...
ok I probably shouldn't have said bait wake ups because it's not what I meant. All you have to do is forceball setups and be patient when going in and his wakeup game becomes useless. Other than that there isn't any reason to use fb's in this Mu, just be patient and the MU is even.
What exactly is Kano doing that is advantageous? Knives to zone...? Ducking one then dashing if outside of whiff range = duckdash, and if not, Reptile can do spit trades. Kano's normals are NOWHERE near Reptile's aside from his d1 and d3, and that is saying a lot. And Kano is one of those characters who has nothing to deal with forceball oki, so footsies are risky as it is. Blah answers to EX dash as well. Kano is fortunate enough to be capable of punishing dash for something meterless, unlike a lot of the top tiers. Also, some stuff that I wanna test could potentially make knives in footsies really risky.
Yeah but F2 into anything is interruptable, it's easy peasy for him to whiff punish, and dash is obviously punishable.
Cage, kabal, mileena, and li kang are the only 4-6's I agree on, rest feel even. And he may beat smoke...call me crazy.
Rain I don't believe so, for the simple fact that Rain's 4 deals with a lot of things Reptile has. It can outspeed d4 and go over it at the same time, it avoids dash, punishes dash for 40+%, beats out a number of his normals, etc. Zoning him isn't free, either, due to lightning and teleport (as ass as it is, it's still viable).
I see what you are saying but I feel the dash really screws with rain. And ex slowball ender's are great against his wake ups. The only problems o have playing rain is his armor and damage. If I read lightning I'm getting an edash into.jip combo. I've played a couple rains in tournament including @aquaman and I feel like reptile controls the pace.
Yeah, Reptile can still control the pace, though he has to be wary. I think what hurts Reptile here, though, is just simply where he can fuck up.
You have not played enough of WoundCowboy then. He has convinced me this MU is completely even. Also, he has a couple more 4-6's. Reptile players will forever just not know how to play Mileena. The ONLY ONE I GET BEAT BY EVER IS PIG. Every other Mileena is risky ass 50/50's and gimmicks. That MU is even.
Pig and SonicFox are probably the only Mileena players that would give a Reptile that knows the matchup any sort of problems.
Yeah but Sektor has a considerable advantage fullscreen, sliiiiight advantage in footsies range, feels about even close up, but Sektor has the damage advantage. Also remember that Reptile has an even worse wakeup game than Sektor, and Sektor U3 4 beats every one of Reptile's wakeups (plus he has missile setups that you have to respect)
You should be afraid of EN Dash Punch because it does a lot of damage and allows him to start pressure. Both characters have good ways to shut eachother's games down on reads or reaction, and because of Reptile's bad pokes, he should generally need to Elbow Dash out, which means they are guessing for about the same amount of damage and advantage close up.
You could be right on both accounts. But pig plays top level mileena, and he beats you so shouldn't that make it in her favor since that's what mu charts are?
Can you see how that's kind of a flawed logic though? You can't just say "it's even because most mileenas are risky and gimmicky but I lose to the one that isn't"
It does like 17% lol...there is zero fear other than the pressure. It's not shutting Reptile down from ever wanting to put out a forceball. 17% is a good chunk, but that's not a very huge deterrent.
