I'm blown away by this exchange lol in a good way for the most part. Competition is healthy, MK or social, and I'm learning stuff.
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@kencheese you're on the Internet and people are going to troll you with lols no matter what you do, it's no big deal. You could cure Lin Kuei Kancer and someone would say you should've done it sooner.
One not so great thing you can do though, is fire back. I get it, it's easy to do since there's no real accountability here, all corrupt and online as it is. But for the most part, online is our main focus as the TYM community itself is an online forum y'know? We take what we can get, in matchmaking and forums. And worst case scenario, what we post is wrong and we're caught fighting over it. Everyone should have at least some humility.
There are a lot of players interested in playing against the CPU too though! So even if you hate netplay, there's still a place for you. They're tough btw, I can't beat the Very Hard tower myself. It's a different group than online competitive however, each group misunderstanding the others difficulties I think. Make some posts about the CPU towers and Sub Zeros options vs their patterns or something. You'll get good feedback.
Competitive guides like this one deal almost in absolutes like guaranteed combos or in mind games that are likely to work vs humans. There's a lot of gray area in the latter so try to be patient if you don't get the reaction from the community you'd like when you post in here specifically, especially if the perception is that your experience is mostly against an ultimately pattern based opponent. As a result, people will be patient in return, and then more open to what you have to say. If not, hey that's also fine.
Having said all that, I wouldn't personally 11 xx df2+R2 since the ice ball would combo either way. The second part I'm all about, 123 xx slide is my go to ender after 242. That last part, timing slide after 242, I use if I don't have stamina for run, or the slide will end the round. It build meter when input as well as when it hits (I try to tailor all my combos this way just to be efficient, same reason as whiffing ice clone after ice ball).