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What characters can go 5-5 with all characters with a change of variation?

gam224

gam224

The world's least hype player
The other day i saw a thread about how Takeda currently can cover a lot of his bad match ups by switching his variation. I was wondering what other characters can do this. I personally think tanya can do the same since she changes a lot between variations.
 
Daemantalo

Daemantalo

Not Good Enough
Kano. Between all three of his variations, he doesn't have a completely losing matchup. Commando, Cybernetic, Cutthroat can cover a lot of matchups and go 5-5 with the OP of the cast. It can be argued though. Still, I think his variations are very diverse and the overall character is very strong for that reason.
 
Tony at Home

Tony at Home

Master
Pretty sure Sonya can, my only reservation would be vs HQT Predator, but I think it's more than reasonable to say CO can 5-5 that.

Hell, I'm sure more of the cast can do this than you'd think. It's odd to see we still have a ton of "Variation loyalists" in this game. Use your damn character to the fullest.
 
gam224

gam224

The world's least hype player
RunwayMafia said:
Kitana can.

Lol at Tanya though. You will NEVER see someone "switch" from Kobu to DN/Pyro.

Never.
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I actually think the opposite. I think kitana doesn't benefit from the variation system as much as some others, she has no variation with a good overhead. On the other hand mournful is good against certain match ups like ru kang she is still a zoner and spacing character in all three variations. With tanya she goes from zoner in pyro to footsies and 50/50 in DN, to pressure and chip in Kobu Jutsu. I think in some match ups pyro and DN can succeed where Kobu fails.
 
Evil Canadian

Evil Canadian

G O K U
Elder God
You can just pick Lao and not even have to switch variations to go 5-5 or better with everyone, easy peasy :eek:

Uh but I guess Tremor? Between crystal and aftershock he basically has all bases covered.
 
Matix218

Matix218

Get over here!
Scorpion has some good versatility between hellfire and Ninjutsu but I still feel even when picking the optimal variation there are still a couple of bad matchups (most likely 4-6) for him. I think kung lao would be one of the tougher matchups with scorpion only having risky ex takedown as his armor out of pressure option. Other high pressure characters give scorpion issues as well IMO but none of the matchups are too terrible because of scorpions momentum when he lands a solid hit.
 
Barrogh

Barrogh

Meta saltmine
In order for character to benefit from variation system, I think we need a few events of different format. Somehow KOF with its queue system comes to mind, except here player would pick a variation for a character whose turn is up, but not beforehand. Play until someone runs out of characters.

Maybe if someone is interested in such a format and people will play it, you will find a few practical ideas on how to answer this question.
 
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