MadeOfMetal
Kenshi Srubtastic,Cyrax, Special Forces Mains
i honestly think Mileena should be left alone, i say this with great hatred towardsa her as my brother mains her, but only thing in her kit that is remotely close to broken is B12 and thats because she can wiff it and still hit you before you get her trying to punish it. thats kinda broke, but not level of broke that say: Alien or Sonya or Tekada is. she is just good at all but not best at all. just really good all around. and i like her that way, she is the example of how you can make a character Very Good and still not be broke.If Cyrax were buffed into the top 5, not only would I continue to co-main him, I would delight in drinking the tears that would ensue. The Aliens, and Mileenas etc. have had there time to shine.
ONLY MILEENA NERF: plus 8 on recovery of B12. that would fix her torment, but she could still use the tool in neutral, just not repeat it like a mad women and get away with wiffing it. actually look at @SaltFace NS : he has a very good write up of what she needs. but like i said she to me is the only honest Top S tier character we have on this game.
I think only thing that should happen to Mileena is: her B12 gets additional 8 frames recovery.
Sonya should get: her Grenade should not be able to detonate and have a quick explode time, OR, it goes away when she gets hit on block or hit. (thats fair)
Tekada can be fixed by making EX kuni end quicker. like right after, but let others debate if it goes before you can hit oh or not. i think he should have the option but it should be one mixup not several.
Ermac Push needs adjustment
Alien JIP2 needs adjustment and his F134 xx Tail flip needs a gap maybe between F13(gap)4 xx tail flip.?
I wish i worked at NRS some times, i feel likle they do dumb shit, i really hope none of the characters get nerfed to the ground. they are cool characters and are fun, but they seem to ruin every Variation when they nerf one character. Example Triborg Cyrax suffered from CSZ and CSZ suffered from Cyrax.
And trust me, you do not want cyrax top 5. trust me i hear you cuz i used cyrax in MK3/UMK3 and MK9 and on this one as my main guy. but if you think you will get a last patch and all complainers will have to deal with it you are wrong. Top players will bitch and bitch and bitch and take away the cool things he has like HTB setups, honestly its only thing he has, since his older versions where unblockable, its the closest thing to it, and in this one they can escape every one if they know the matchup. but only reason they keep it on him without the haters taking it away is because he has a very bad Neutral, top 5 = decent neutral= nerfed Setups the core of cyrax. Mark my words. you gotta think of what would happen, we allready have Net taken away after Bomb connect. what more you wanna lose permanently?
on the other hand if they give him a good Mid that does not equal decent Neutral it equals a fighting chance up close. he is basically Kenshi close up right now.
why i defend HTB setups from Cyrax: @PND_Mustard :
its because Cyrax at his core has always been UnBlockable and there was no way to block, in MK9 there would never be the
Haters spouting Why is Cyrax boms not able to block. like they do now, they say ohh its an HTB Cyrax needs nerf, thats the first thing i hear because this whole thing on HTB's has happend and now the community thinks its unfair. well think of it this way. the HTB is a Super hard way to do what he did in all other games. but you have to use Input heavy timing based Setups to get them traped in it. and BTW this game is 1000X's fairer cyrax than MK9, this one you can escape it. on MK9 the escape was Jump after poke, well Cyrax mains knew there was only one escape on that setup and they just used 212Yank and you where held into bomb explaode. on MKXL you can escape all his setups. here is a simple Guide to go by when playing against Cyrax, Single bomb = Backdash/Armor, Double bomb Setups = Tech roll into Backdash/Jump/Armor.
In this game there is universal ways out of all his setups. To me that is fair, ist not like Cyrax can use bombs that are 30 frames recovery and throw them like bees attacking you untill an unblockable bomb hits, and the boimb take 70 frames to recover, ther eis no way for Cyrax to throw bomb then immediately go to Stagger string to force Bomb, Its a low and Bombs take to long to recover. so all those options for cyrax is out, on top of it, he has to hit you with a starter to even get them out sincer they are so Negative on Recovery.
Here i actually have a video to help all with Cyrax setups: I advise aginst blocking them, unless you are very very good at cblocking, if you are not, just Armor or backdash, but follow tutorial.
The difference rom me and others is ill explain to my opponent how to block and escape my Setups. i would rather my opponent be prepared so i have to get creative with m y setups. thats whats fun with cyrax to me.
The whole fad we had a while back when reaper made a video saying Cyrax setups where not escapable was moot he later admited that he forgot to set Tech roll to ON. and thats why his double bomb setups where escapable. funny when you look back, i remember how many people hated on Cyrax, and whats worse is we actually got some nerfs that didnt need to be done. "Just In Case Nerfs" on Oct 4th we get redemption i hope.
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