I've had the most sucess by pressing down then qcb or qcf (imagine the hadoken motion but from starting from the up direction instead of down). Hope it helpsI'm really at a loss to get his grapple-hooks, "down upforward/upback", do you guys have any tips for a Cyborg noob like me to do them? I'd do it 100 times in a row if need be, but I can't even do it once
Oh so like down, up, upright, right or down, up, upleft, left? I haven't thought of it like that, I'll try it out thanks!
Exactly, treat it like a hadoken motion. Tell me if you have any success, I probably should have made a posted on this sooner lol
It works consistently if I press the buttons deliberately and slowly in training, but I tend to mash when doing my inputs in match so if I speed up I start dropping it. =| Any ideas what to do when that happens?
I just gradually integrated it into my game, to the point I barely miss the input. It just something you have to keep practicing. I primarily used it to avoid intractables, I wish I had some better advice but also try using it to get through gaps to get the feeling down.
My fault, I just realized it's down, then you start from left/right and then roll up similar to a hadoken motion. So like:
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+ fu +
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+ fb + 
As you hinted at, for me it's just a matter of making sure I don't rush the motion during matches. I haven't tried the method described by Protagonist (I'll definitely try it soon).
Personally, I do lots of mb f3 and mb b3 (probably more than I should, but meh). Also, occasionally I will do mb techno tackle and mb power fist for wakeups
Sorry I'm responding late but I feel like if you wanna take that character to the next level iafb's are very important almost a must. You could play him without the iafb if you choose to but trust me it just makes things easier and still even if you do master it it's so many characters in the game that beat cyborg you would have to work 3 times as hard as everyone else and that still might not be enough. Overall I feel like injustice 1 Cyborg is better then injustice 2 Cyborg but only at certain things they both have pros and cons I could explain them to you if you want just let me know
I was lol, but apparently lighting doesn't strike twice in this game, so im looking for someone else to play lol.
Man is there any tutorial to do this for a non fight stick controller? Because it feels like you have to be part cyborg to accomplish it.
Man tbh I really don't know I'll do some research on it but just off the top of my head the best Cyborg players in the first game were RelaxedState, Balding, and myself and I think we all used hitbox or a fight stick balding I'm not to sure about what he used but I'm sure he used stick. I'll do some research for you for sure tho
I roll from ub to df. The trick is you can buffer the ub before he actually jumps once you get the rhythm.
I've been using mb f3/b3 (more so f3) a lot as well. If an opponent is very rush down focus, it makes them more hesitant. I often can also catch opponents after they block many of Cyborg's strings (especially his b1 string) since they'll immediately try to move in or press a button.
I been doing some research, and I see some of what makes this version different. Since they made his overall up close game worse with no real overheads, crouch-able command grab, and a bad wakeup game, do you believe it is better to play cyborg like a pure zoner character, and dont try to set up combos now. How do you believe he is best played?
He always had no real overheads and a crouch-able command grab
Okay so let me go over the cons first, so what I feel like Cyborg is bad/worst on is his zoning in my opinion is worst for one reason only, his missiles are no longer an overhead and what that really opened up is his fireball game, you gonna have to block high when the missiles come right ? And what are my iafb's ? A high hitting projectile but now they are just a mid hitting move so that hurts him. Another thing that hurts him too is that almost every zoner in the game can zone better then Cyborg and if your a zoning character why does your zoning lose to all the other characters zoning ? It just doesn't make sense to me at all
That's just one of the many big things I feel are bad with him. Now a pro that I particularly like about him is that he has the option to shoot a straight fire ball in the air or shoot an angled one at the opponent I no longer have to meter burn my iafb to hit crouching opponents which is great ! I would love for it to be an overhead tho. But to give you my opinion I feel like he should be played mid to full screen because that's where he can Excel at I call the mid screen for him " being in the pocket" learning how to "be and STAY in the pocket" is something I haven't even mastered yet. I was thinking about doing a video on him and explaining what I know with him so far but I feel like I just need a lot more time to fully dive into the character
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