Ex slow force ball acts as a shield from johnny's jump ins. Johnny's Shadow kick is no comparison to the terror of Reptiles dash. Projectile trading is lost no doubt. Along with Reptiles unbelievable mixups. Reptile is one of Johnny's worst adversaries. But now that his f3 2 nutpunch loop is gone one of his greatest tools has been abolished.
I'll just highlight a few things that are JC specific:
Don't forget that you can't run through it with EX shadow kick either, it'll launch JC. This never made much sense to me. For some reason, it negates the armor. Not that this would change the matchup much.
That sounds like a glitch? Is it while he is still holding it or while he is releasing?
That has never happened to me before. The ex shadow kick should go right through it. Idk, Myabe johnny only has armor for a few frames.
no no no, it's when you do ex shadow say when reptile does one forceball, you ex shadow, and then he does another. On the startup you get popped up. I think it has to be because the armor is set to when you hit the enemy, like a proximity thing. But since it lowers reptiles hit box, it goes over, and the ball catches you.
I'm pretty sure its just because you only have armor for the 1 hit. You can still blow through the forceball on reaction before he has time to get another on screen.
Everytime I've attempted to go through it was when he was charging it, I'm not sure if it'd have the same results once it's released.
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
Well, my best guess is, the EX FB is glitched and has 2 hits on it. Though it only registers as one, perhaps it has do to with the size? I'm honestly not sure.
I was fairly certain it had super armor. Can't test it now but I thought you could absorb multiple. no idea though for sure
I've seen it happen but never had it happen to me.
I never understood how he was so high on the tier list when he has so many bad match ups. Kitanan, Sub-zero, Reptile, Milleena, Ermac. Kabal, Lui Kang, and Noob, Cyrax. Keep in mind that most of these characters are used often in tournaments.
Well here's the thing, you can still bulldog your way in with F 3,2 on hit your still at massive advantage, but.... on the flip side yeah he was crippled. Even with that nerf it wouldn't of hindered him to much if half the cast didn't get armor -__-
Well people are mad about it because they waited so long to nerf it.. When they nerfed ermacs string in the second patch? Yes you can still F3, 2 xx nutpunch, but if the enemy is holding block while you're doing that string the nutpunch will be blocked. F 3 3 xx nutpunch will still work and people are complaining about that because it is harder to HC.
JC players have always understood that maining him means they'll have bad matchups. This latest patch makes his hard matchups even harder, while he's still going to dominate the characters he dominated all along. That's the source of my frustration: JC was fine the way he was. They've taken one of his best tools and buffed some of his worst enemies because Lord knows Reptile and Sub-Zero were shit tier before this patch :facepalm:
perfectly said..
Reptile was shit tier before the patch? ughhhh... LOL
