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Cyrax vs Johnny Cage..

Mosp

Apprentice
My advice would be to read the other thread which is about the exact same subject. It has great advice in there.
 

PND_Mustard

"More stealthful than the night"
Elder God
dont fight back, keep blocking low and when you see the f3,3b3 come out stand up, at the end of a few of his stirngs you can escape, just keep blocking and when you have distance keep him at bay with short bombs, dont get predictable, but use them whenever he's too far away to poke you out of them on startup :)
 

Felix

Noob
Thanks again Mustard! Much appreciated.

I think Johnny Vs Cyrax is 6-4 personally.. such a hard fight
 

A F0xy Grampa

Problem X Promotions
Cyrax Vs Cage isnt 6-4 to Cage, considering Cyrax has some sick pokes, and as soon as Cage is out of sweep distance he has nothing to shoot you back with. Nets and bombs make it hard to get near. On top of that cyrax punishes any missed moves frame cage harder than anybody else in the game.

This is a matchup Mustard and myself play ALOT and I'm gonna say its 5-5
 

Felix

Noob
It's acctually really hard to punish missed frames unless you are a tourny-level player. Also can't he just be patient and wait until you throw a bomb or a net and get in on you? Kinda like Cyrax has to be patient and wait for an opening in the strings, guess this is 5-5 acctually since they both need to be patient but while Cyrax is being patient he is taking damage and when Cyrax hits, he hits hard so it seems like a good matchup now I think about it.

Are these awsome pokes you speak of d4 by any chance? Everyone speaks of them but they don't seem very special to me.
 

TheChad_87

Bad Reputation
Cyrax' D+1 & D+4 are both very solid.
D+1 --> Ragdoll is good for escaping Cage's pressure strings.

I would agree that Cage v Cyrax is a 5-5. Cage keeps pressure & does tons of chip, but 'Rax just needs two nets to take the match, and Cage leaves himself open frequently.
 

blues686

Black lantern
Cyrax' D+1 & D+4 are both very solid.
D+1 --> Ragdoll is good for escaping Cage's pressure strings.

I would agree that Cage v Cyrax is a 5-5. Cage keeps pressure & does tons of chip, but 'Rax just needs two nets to take the match, and Cage leaves himself open frequently.
i guess i gotta stop avoiding the match up like a plague and learn it better. its just a fustrating match, jc so annoying
 

Lt. Boxy Angelman

I WILL EAT THIS GAME
I feel horrid for the JC players. I like the challenge of Cage. Why fix something that isn't really broken?

Yeah, it's a glitch. There's plenty of them.
Nearly everytime I try and teleport out of Nightwolf's EX Rush, I somehow end up BACK ON THE RECIEVING END, eating the last half of the tackle.
I don't have a clue why this happens. It shouldn't. But it does. So I don't teleport around him when he's got meter.
See? Find a problem, adapt, win. You can't fit a triangle in a square hole. Use the square.

I will say, after several awesome back and forth battles online (there was an AJ with a Kitana that I went 3 and 1 against that was a fucking dueling wizard, best Kitana fights I've ever had) being run into the ground by immediately running into a hat-happy, lag-riding Kung Lao, I will say I'm happy to see that low hat madness go. At least for the sake of Online play. I don't care about the spin block bounce, you could've left it the same and little would've changed, but the low hat shenanigans deserve to be called shenanigans. Can it be beaten? Yes. Is it like dodging traffic trying to make the right guesses and checks to do so when you're moving at a sligtly off pace? Mmhmm.
You can dodge Cyrax nets, you can keep distance from Cage rushdowns, but that fucking 2 4 Hat, or the Hat Divekick Spin Hat, into hat into another hat into a fucking HIGHWAY OF HATS gets really tedious after awhile. It's detracting, knowing walking into a Kung Lao fight online is not unlike a popsicle walking into the gates of Hell. He could get out unmelted, but it doesn't happen often. I'm not terrible enough against the Hat Man offline to justify the utterly dumb things that happen sometimes. But c'est la vie. If it doesn't go, I'll keep kicking it back, but if it does, I'm doing a little dance. Sorry.
 

PND_Mustard

"More stealthful than the night"
Elder God
not gonna lie, i agree with it turning into 6-4 cyrax, the main thing foxy gets in with IS the f3,2, when thats gone i wont have ANYTHING to fear at sweep distance, nrs are fucking ruining this game.
 

UsedForGlue

"Strength isn't everything"
its the equivalent of nerfing sektors rockets, i also love how buffing the top tier is of upmost importance in their eyes ¬¬
And cyber can't even get decent pokes...Im going to stick with him no matter much bullshit he has, ive spent too much time and effort to move characters now. Good luck today by the way man.