One last post for me tonight lol.
I hate how a lot of people on TYM, will either hear something, see something in a tournament, or whatever, and it somehow becomes super common knowledge for almost no reason.
An example of this is "Acidic is Mileena's only losing MU".
That's probably not true, at all. Same with Demo only losing to Piercing. She probably doesn't lose to Piercing lol.
Acidic being the best is another. Acidic is the Tempest Lao of this version, like God Confirm said. Honestly Tarkatan may be better, when the game is developed further. What makes Acidic so much better than Tarkatan? The acid controlling space? Honestly, I think Sonic has made us all think that Acidic is a lot better than it really is. Like, Acidic does not beat Tarkatan, but if you watch that match when Sonic plays it, it looks like Acidic dumps all over Tarkatan. I don't even play Acidic so don't give me "yeah we know Tweedy, you downplay Alien". I have more biased towards Ronin Takeda than Acidic or Konjurer Alien.
When I told people that Alien is only plus 1 in the corner after acid blood, I got replies like "but bro sometimes we stagger at -5 and it works", lol.
+1 after a corner combo with some DoT, versus a hard knockdown, is about the same to me. I'm comparing the two variations so there can be no "bruh lol downplay alien you do".
The rekkas blow on block versus a chunk of the cast, however, it's not like you're gaining anything super safe and cheap by switching to Acidic. You can do all of the D4 xx 50/50 special shit that Sonic does with Tarkatan.
Here's where possible Alien downplay comes in.
I think people know that Tarkatan is not better than Demolition Sonya and possibly Cutthroat Kano, so to hold on to the fact that Dragon's main, the guest character, the ugly motherfucker Alien, is not top 1, they gotta keep putting Lord Acidic up there. I'm not saying Acidic or Tarkatan are not top 1. I'm just saying that I think TYM wants Alien to be, whether he is or not.
Also, you didn't hear it from me, but you can make EX rekkas safer on block than normal rekkas, making it almost a safe wake up. You also gain EX spin in Tarkatan which is amazing.
I'll explain later if someone else doesn't already have it figured out. I really gotta go to bed. TYM chatter is addicting.
Edit: Oh and standing 2 in Tarkatan is an amazing footsies tool. Absolutely amazing. Cancel it by itself into rekkas. If you whiff, nothing comes out but the S2, and it recovers in like 15 frames or less.