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Brainiac Living Guide Thread

Ambiguous set up I have posted in the general discussion:
Midscreen (works in the corner as well):
Reverses wake ups, divekick crosses up, the mb part sometimes crosses up, sometimes doesn't - depending on the timing

Reverses wake ups, divekick doesn't cross up

Blocking the cross up set up (the mb part is blocked the other way)

Blocking the no cross up set up
 

Marinjuana

Up rock incoming, ETA 5 minutes
Scarecrow has range competitive with Brainiac but he has safety and a good mb b3...incredible pressure and a command grab. And his jip is best ji range
Just saying you can't say you need x and y to win when there are other characters who can compete without it.
 

FinalBoss_FGC

Day -4MONTHS Dual Jin main
Just saying you can't say you need x and y to win when there are other characters who can compete without it.
You don't get it.

You don't need full screen projectile when you have a mb b3 that reaches half screen or a jip that reaches nearly the same...or a +6 mb special...or a command grab..or tick damage trait that self builds...

Brainiac has none of those things...so he needs a way to convince zoners not to stand back there all day outside of hoping they don't react to your swing and d2ing you
 

Marinjuana

Up rock incoming, ETA 5 minutes
You don't get it.

You don't need full screen projectile when you have a mb b3 that reaches half screen or a jip that reaches nearly the same...or a +6 mb special...or a command grab..or tick damage trait that self builds...

Brainiac has none of those things...so he needs a way to convince zoners not to stand back there all day outside of hoping they don't react to your swing and d2ing you
Bro you said "All necessary in this game*". I'm just pointing out that's clearly not true.
 
What dictates the cross up? Just timing?
Timing and the distance between you and your opponent when you do the d3 and then dash, if you are further the instant divekick (inputed the opposite direction will) most likely won't cross up (again depending on how far you are from opponent).
Changing the timing on the divekick itself helps adjusting to different wake ups and stuffing them, but it also changes the cross up properties. And if you do the divekick not low enough opponent will be able to avoid it by ducking (you have to be crazy to duck in this set up though)
 

Saboteur-6

Filthy Casual
You don't get it.

You don't need full screen projectile when you have a mb b3 that reaches half screen or a jip that reaches nearly the same...or a +6 mb special...or a command grab..or tick damage trait that self builds...

Brainiac has none of those things...so he needs a way to convince zoners not to stand back there all day outside of hoping they don't react to your swing and d2ing you
Then you have to walk in methodically the honest way like a lot of characters do against full screen zoning back to where you have more options. I'm a Wonder Woman main though so we'd kill for Brianiac's flight and Divekick.
 

God Confirm

We're all from Earthrealm. If not, cool pic brah.
Then you have to walk in methodically the honest way like a lot of characters do against full screen zoning back to where you have more options. I'm a Wonder Woman main though so we'd kill for Brianiac's flight and Divekick.
would you trade it for losing a bunch of your damage in combos, being unsafe on everything, having zero plus frames available, having no 50/50 starter, no combo starter to convert any strings into a combo, a single launching string with massive scaling that has zero range starts high and is unsafe on every hit, having your movespeed be the slowest in the game, having your jump speed be the floatiest, opening yourself up to AA's just to have to start a combo, the winning combination of your projectile being high,going away on hit and being twice as slow as all the other projectiles in the game, and needing to commit meter before you see if your attack even lands and still being full combo punishable?

Honestly if you think this character is fine then you have no idea what you are talking about. I've heard about Wonder Woman players downplaying, but your character is top tier in comparison to Brainiac. If you think otherwise I dare you to pick him up and see how great the 100frame float is or the geriatric divekick.
 

Saboteur-6

Filthy Casual
would you trade it for losing a bunch of your damage in combos, being unsafe on everything, having zero plus frames available, having no 50/50 starter, no combo starter to convert any strings into a combo, a single launching string with massive scaling that has zero range starts high and is unsafe on every hit, having your movespeed be the slowest in the game, having your jump speed be the floatiest, opening yourself up to AA's just to have to start a combo, the winning combination of your projectile being high,going away on hit and being twice as slow as all the other projectiles in the game, and needing to commit meter before you see if your attack even lands and still being full combo punishable?

Honestly if you think this character is fine then you have no idea what you are talking about. I've heard about Wonder Woman players downplaying, but your character is top tier in comparison to Brainiac. If you think otherwise I dare you to pick him up and see how great the 100frame float is or the geriatric divekick.
You've obviously made up your mind about how shit tier Brainiac is and you don't really seem interested in conversation as much as you just want to rant. So have fun with Injustice dude.

Also I would never downplay Wonder Woman. She's a really solid character and a goddam goddess.