From practice I haven't had the last hit actually whiff. What I've seen and tested is the hit before last (112124) whiffing making it possible to armor through the gap. Heck, even from max range 11 has a gap punishble by fast armored moves.
orbiting hat uses one meter. you can use one to counter after some pressure or escape or whatever or not at all. my problem with tempest is that i have hard time to open people while with buzz its ok even he doesnt have true 50/50. then again im yet to face good kung lao (tempest) so maybe im wrong.
In that case you must have not played kung lao that much, because it happens quite often. It depends on the character ofcourse, but it happens on like half the cast or maybe more.
This game lets you mash out reversals while holding block.
I usually use as training dummies characters with fast amored moves (e.g. Subzero). I will check with others to see what you're describing.
It's best to test on multiple characters. It happens most on female characters, kung jin and reptile.
I've tried but they won't come out armored. Unless of course I'm doing something wrong.
Now I see what you mean. When crouch blocking it will whiff sometimes. This is likely carried over from MK9, where the "breathing" animation of some characters makes their hitbox shrink at seemingly random intervals.
Standing 1 is supposed to connect on crouch block characters. It will whiff on low hitbix characters and only connects on medium low hitbox characters if you are at the closest point.
But the thing is you can't switch variations mid match. You have to lose a tournament match in order to switch variations. So it is essentially the same exact thing as losing, and counter picking with a different character.
Well, I really can't see how D' Vorah is a better character than Kung Jin and Kung Lao. Shinok isn't B tier. He is A tier, or maybe even higher. Like I said before, just take a look at Alex Valle's Shinok. It will change your concept about the character entirely.
I get your point, but I think there's a very big difference between switching characters and switching variations. I'd expect a player to be able to use a different variation to overcome a difficult match up, I wouldn't expect them to be able to use another character completely at the same level.
Well actually there's a huge difference if you're counterpicking with a Scorpion variation that doesn't exist.
To be fair I used Ronin Takeda's Dp, which is like 13 frames(12 frames as a reversal). Maybe that was why.
Dvorah is the best character in the game dude.
PPJ explains his reasoning for Dvorah's placement a few pages in. It's a pretty compelling argument. Shinnok's placement is probably fine. The character still has a few problems, and the argument that player A does well with him isn't really all that convincing.
I sensed from the beginning that this one would be very strong because this one's hive will taste this one and this one will enjoy this one's death because as this one suffers this one enjoys because this one is bug lady.
This is a tier list I concur a lot more than OP's one and Tom Brady's to be honest. Only thing I would change would place Takeda as Tier C.
I'd swap Liu Kang with Takeda and that's pretty much my tier list
That's because no character in this game is that bad. But it's obvious his tools aren't as good as most of the cast. Atleast he isn't Sheeva bad.
