Teleport needs to be interruptible. No legitimate argument can be mounted against this.
O rly? The last hit of
and the
second and third hits of
can be interrupted on block by armored moves (or a 6 frame attack). All hits in these strings can be canceled with teleport. So if you feel your opponent is going to go for an interrupt, you can teleport around it and (hopefully) punish their whiff. If Raiden's teleport is adjusted to be easily stuffed, vs. any opponent with with armor or a 6 frame move, he is fucked.
For the last few weeks, I've been feeling that Raiden's placement on the tier list is extremely suspect. His biggest strength is that he plays completely differently than the rest of the cast, so you have to fight him completely differently. It can be almost impossible to beat a competent Raiden online, but offline... not so much. You lose the fight to Raiden more often than not because you get brain-raped into fighting inside of his vortex of bullshit. Seriously, if you just slow yourself down and fight Raiden one step at a time (offline), you'll do so much better. If he's ever in a situation where he has to play aggressor, he's at such a disadvantage against you since his offense fucking sucks.
Look at the cold hard numbers on Raiden, he doesn't really have anything good. Teleport can't be stuffed, but it's extremely punishable. Superman is pretty neat, but it's a big risk outside of a need for a fast advancing punishment tool or a combo ender. His only all-around good tool is his
string, which nobody is talking about here.
Raiden's good, he can be a bitch to fight. But vs. Raiden is a situation where you lose to your opponent, not his character choice. Raiden reminds me so much of SFIV-era Dictator. It's all mind-games and traps; elements of fighting games reliant on player skill rather than LOL MY CHARACTER IS AWESOME.
His teleport sucks anyway, everytime he does it hes at major disadvantage afterwards, unless for some stupid reason the other player was blocking. Worst thing is that the teleport is all he has.
I dont play him but i reckon they should make him + at the end of his strings again
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No seriously, I touched myself. I agree with that whole post so fucking hard and I really don't even play Raiden.
If people on this forum took 25% of the time they spend bitching about who and what they think is OP and dedicated it to actually learning the match-ups Raiden would have probably been knocked out of top tier months ago.