I actually prefer the Reptilian Reptile. I think it looks way more badass and gives more room for creativity.Fellow lizards, as a reptile mainer, I just finished drawing this:
I wish we could have this costume as an alternative unlockable skin instead of TWO green-scaled-lizard-reptile costumes.
I don't mind Reptilian Reptile, even though it makes the character just look like a bland, dumb, drooling Riptor from KI instead of a stylish ninja-spy with a secret reptilian identity. What I have a problem with is that they make BOTH his costumes look practically the same thing. That's the opposite of being creative. I think he should at least have a human (or at the very least, more humanoid) costume since that's what he was until MK4.
I wasn't referring to costume creativity, but gameplay and I couldn't disagree more tbh. His alt is meant to be a head nod to human reptile, and I'm sure they will release a skin for it anyway. However, I much prefer Reptile over a boring green ninja clone.
Except that having the green ninja outift does not take any of the creative "reptilian" moves away from Reptile. He could still have his acid spit, forceballs, serpent dash, acid slide, invisibility (all of which he actually had in UMK3 already) his acrobatic moves, his acid hand, claw pounds aaaaand his tongue grapple and still look like a human ninja.
Ok so his specials might look the same, there are other aspects aside from this. His throw being an example. If I saw human reptile do this it would just be weird and wouldn't make sense to me. I would like to add I don't dislike human reptile at all btw (I think yer design looks sick btw), I just love the feel of newer models way more. He has a primal sort of aura while still being ninja-like and I love that about him.
I think there could be some workarounds in regards on his throw. Or he could simply wear a mask that opens up and his tongue comes out as usual. Wouldn't be any weirder than him spitting acid while looking human in my opinion.
Lolz.
This is Mortal Kombat the most likely option is that the opponent fuzzy guarded. I hate fuzzy guarding...because I am pretty sure both the flip claw and standing claw are both overheads.
I can't look again right now, but also look at 53:06 of the Reptile stream. Kitana is just holding down for like 2 seconds and Reptile does the non meter version and it's blocked.
They say in the stream that it's an overhead. It's just MK's fuzzy guard.I can't look again right now, but also look at 53:06 of the Reptile stream. Kitana is just holding down for like 2 seconds and Reptile does the non meter version and it's blocked.
Yea I know they said that. That's why I pointed it out. I saw it four times in the match and not once did it crush low block. One time Kitana just held low block for 2 seconds, Reptile walked up and did it, and it was blocked. Not sure if Tyler is out there fuzzy guarding lol. Was wondering if they made a mistake saying it was overhead.
Well, they have said before the games not finished. It is possible that the coding in the game is not an overhead yet. Hopefully it will get fixed by released if true.
That's exactly what I was about to post. A couple of times it was just blocked cleaned from crouch, but most like it may have been changed to overhead for the final version. they made it a point to say it was an overhead so I'm thinking that the build was the case.
This is actually a very good question. On one hand I would say no, it's like his previous invisibility. But on the other hand, people like Ermac and Mileena now have invisibility that makes them unable to be hit.
I think it'll be his worst by a longshot. A choice between constant big time chip damage, flash trait and invisibility? I see myself taking the former two way more often than the others.
Yes, indeed. But if invisibility is either not disabled by any hit (blocked or not) and wears off after a set time OR if invisibility is only disabled by unblocked hits (no timer), then it could be a significantly useful variation for mixups and mindgames. I personally find myself using Reptile's invisibility in MK9 after certain combo strings that leave the opponent hesitant to make a decision. Like, do 1,2,2 invisibility then either NJP or do 3, 2, 1 + slide or acid hand or do 3,2,1 invisibility then 1,2,2. It has about 70% chance of success.
The way the invis seems to work this game is going to depend on how you do it if I understand correctly. I agree it could be a pain, I just don't see the advantages adding up enough to make me want to use it more than the others...though I'm certainly going to try my damndest to break all of his variations lol.
Good thing is that regardless of how Invisibility will work on Reptile, he seems like a pretty capable character already. Slowing down time? Damaging your opponent the entire match? Having 90% of your special and normal moves across every variation? Stopping forceballs?! That's definitely shit to be considered.
