I thought he played very well and those were great matches to watch. Might need to watch some of those vs. Sonya matches you talked about.
Anyway, I'll say it again, I still firmly believe that Shock Jock has better tools to deal against most of the cast, specially Erron. I mean, the agressive ones. By how this game was designed, the poke system and alikes, like you've said anything across pokes and faster mid strings literally blows Johnny's game.
Shock Jock's mime is there to make people hesitate to abuse those kind of things. And it does works really well if you can make the right reads, learn from how your opponent plays his character, pay attention to if they have somehow a tendency to punish using the same strings, etc, etc. You can get punished real hard if you mess it up, so better use it carefully. But you know what? It really cover his weaknesses and disrupts people.
I find it hard to deal with people who really gets going on you because they know well about the MU against Sexmachine when I use Showstopper.
That's what makes it hard for me to move on from that variation.
I think from now on we should gather info on how well each of his variations goes against certain characters and MU's, if they're likely harder or easier depending on what you pick.
