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Brainiac Living Guide Thread

Aramonde

Noob
It's annoying. Try to time it by looking for the meterburn animation.
It's just hard to tell when to B3 after the MB. I need to raise my intellect I guess.

Anymore high level play other than Reo you guys can show? I need to see what others are doing.

@FinalBoss_FGC when are you gonna stream? I'm interested in seeing your Brainiac.
 

REYTHEGREAT

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It's just hard to tell when to B3 after the MB. I need to raise my intellect I guess.

Anymore high level play other than Reo you guys can show? I need to see what others are doing.

@FinalBoss_FGC when are you gonna stream? I'm interested in seeing your Brainiac.
check out Scar's channel. He was using him last night. Twitch.tv/scar713
 

Marinjuana

Up rock incoming, ETA 5 minutes
Yea I think safe Beta Bomb Oki was just the tech I needed for this character to mesh together for me.

He feels really strong in the corner, once I get the opponent there his normals just start dominating and beta stuff becomes easy to pull off.
 

Slymind

Noob
Hey Brainiac's mainers, what do you guys think of the Brainiac vs Darkseid matchup? Here is some footage from RHS:


Gunshow is an amazing player, however this matchup seems to be very hard for Brainiac. Looking for insight.
 

Wrenchfarm

Lexcorp Proprietary Technologies
Hey Brainiac's mainers, what do you guys think of the Brainiac vs Darkseid matchup? Here is some footage from RHS:


Gunshow is an amazing player, however this matchup seems to be very hard for Brainiac. Looking for insight.
Heh, funny you mention it, I struggled with this match earlier today and was gonna ask if anyone had any tips. It seems doable, I just had trouble putting the pieces together.

It feels like it should be a case of jumping and swinging the lasers, but Brain's jump is so floaty and the laser hitbox so wide that often even standing beams catch him by the toes. The aerial approach is not the answer.

D4, Beta bomb between shots can make Darkseid move or block providing a chance to move in and it can be used safely between shots.

On the plus side, I was able to catch Darkseids air TP with D2 several times. I botched my matches, but I bet better players could catch it out every time. In fact, it hits high enough that I bet you could D2~trait and juggle. Do that enough and you'll force the opponent to only use the standing version, eliminating the EZ-mix TP/Stomp combo.
 

migosan

MK Philippines / Injustice Philippines
I too am struggling mightily against zoners like darkseid and green arrow, any tips on how to get in the ideal way, if only the beta bombs stay on block :(
 

Paul the Octopus

Slow Starter
It sounds simple but a mix of blocking/walking forward and using his air options is working pretty well for me.

IMO Brainiac does pretty well against zoners, the only difficult parts are (1) being patient enough to slowly walk forward when necessary - Brainiacs slow walk speed makes this hard and (2) making the read on when to use each of your air options.
 

Wrenchfarm

Lexcorp Proprietary Technologies
I don't have it totally figured out, but I ended up fighting a few Darkseid's and found a few things. Step one - Don't jump against Darkseid, the laser's hitbox is roughly the size of Europe and will catch your shins everytime.

Inch forward like any zoner. How close you are to him will determine what you can do. From full screen, nothing. From about a third, you can safely call a drone after ducking a laser, this should help you close in. When you're just outside of his low laser range, you should be in position to punish after a ducked normal laser. This is also where you probably start seeing MB lasers and low lasers to try and push you back. Try not to be baited into jumping (something I preach but still constantly do because I'm an idiot).

Most Darkseid's I've seen like to retreat until they're at the end of the screen and then pull an air TP into a jump kick/stomp mix. Fortunately, Brainiac's D2 can catch a TP easy so long as you are watching for it and ready. Punish those mistakes, keep the pressure up once you have it. Try going for more cancels into Beta bomb than max damage off of combos so you can keep him in one place. Hopefully your opponent is one of these online zoners who melts when tossed in an actual fight.
 

OmGxBdON

I'm going to make Fate top ten
So i picked up brainac cuz he looked cool and i thought that he might be able to cover fates bad MUs supes in particular. definently better than playing fate. Anyways i saw a vid of the corner pressure concept and i decided to work on it a bit. took me a few days but ladys and gentlemen, the brainac vortex. If the opponent has no wake up then there is literally no way out but to guess right.

After the tentacle strike ender in the corner u summon a beta bomb and from there u have enough time to do an instant dive kick or d3 to mix ur opponent. You are so plus the opponent cannot poke out or do anything but block.

From here after both mix options if u have a meter, you do another instant divekick mb, F3, 3DF2. Too loop in the same situation. If u want to cash out the damage u just do the db2 ender instead.

If you dont have meter u just do 12df2 or 3df2 to get the loop going again or if ure a robot u can do d2bf3 12df2 for more damage into the loop.

It took me a while but im hitting it alot more consistently now. IMO its really hard vortex to do consistently but its definitely worth it.

This vortex does a shit to of damage btw.

Getting the second divekick to connect is the hardest part then connecting the f3 is hard too. Have fun.
 

Aramonde

Noob
IMO its really hard vortex to do consistently but its definitely worth it.
It sounds super hard to do im going to need some evidence it actually works against good players. I hope it works because i love playing this character but he feels bottom five to me.
 

OmGxBdON

I'm going to make Fate top ten
It sounds super hard to do im going to need some evidence it actually works against good players. I hope it works because i love playing this character but he feels bottom five to me.
Yeah i havent checked if u could fuzzy the mix up but worst case scenario u just do a d1 or something instead
 

OmGxBdON

I'm going to make Fate top ten
It sounds super hard to do im going to need some evidence it actually works against good players. I hope it works because i love playing this character but he feels bottom five to me.
Only thing that would make this not work is execution error, possible fuzzy and a good wakeup but u can bait wakeups so id say its pretty much legit.