Jimmypotato
Mid Tier
Buff Kitana,
yeh, yeh we are definitely back baby!
yeh, yeh we are definitely back baby!
Kitana's not got much of anything for ground combos as everything she does is juggle-centric with her ability to chain lifts. There's quite a number of combos notated and shown in the Kitana Kombo thread if you want something to reference.
I always thought she was close to the top.. I don't use the Janet kameo but I think Kitana's base kit( no pun intended) makes her close to the top
Which kameo do you use? And if you're feeling generous, what Bnbs you using with her? <3
Janet's nice. However, I highly recommend Mavado. It's pretty silly adding 60 unbreakable, unscaled raw damage off every knockdown that can also lead into Wind Bomb / Fancy Flick chip damage. Also lets you scare people trying to outzone you by grabbing them fullscreen for the body bounce. Lightning trap is also VERY mean in conjunction with her long strings.
Good to know. I was messing around with Scorpion with her, but I'll have to look all that up, have some research to do <3 Thanks.
After a typical corner combo, you can end with 11 xx bdf4b xx dK to break every wakeup (except Ashrah and Havik) as well as force the opponent up if they attempt to hold themselves on the ground. On further testing, the OTG Slide appears to always be blockable (?) so it's not an actual OTG which is sad. Mostly just a gimmick to sneak in 60 damage now and then or screw with the opponent's defense on wakeup. If they block the slide and bomb in this corner setup, you're sitting at around +80-83 so the world is your oyster. And that's after making them eat 398.42 meterless damage (if you count the chip from the slide and bomb). However, if they get hit by the slide, they're going to eat the wind bomb because you can hit confirm afterwards by throwing them onto the bomb. If they get hit by the slide THEN delay wakeup, they're now sitting on top of a wind bomb with your only recovery animation being a throw so you're obscenely plus once again if they block it.
This is exactly what I needed. Thank you a million times over. You're a legend. Will try all of this out <3 Much love <3 <3
Personal preference is to just use slide at the end because it lets you either start Wind Bomb setups in the corner or send the opponent fullscreen otherwise; but doing usual midscreen combos into j112, uK, dash 2xxdb1f is a decent bit of damage to tack onto any combo. You also can use uK to force an additional bounces (which has set gravity on hit) into amplified fan toss (which has set gravity on hit) to tack on damage towards the end of long combos.
Not a kitana player yet, but have been messing around with the jax pairing and I love it. The combo damage of 41 midscreen and like 53 in the corner is awesome and super swaggy. 100+ health is great, and groundpound chip sequences and zoning pressure is a plus.
Personally I find PeaceBitch far more annoying. Any character that has f neutral tools and can negate her zoning is "annoying" at minimum. I'd recommend wind bombs a plenty against OmniBitch to neutralize his teleport shenanigans.
Sub zero is good for damage , my favorite is striker
I think she is pretty barebones, which is why I never bothered to learn her in MK1. That said, I found her EVEN MORE barebones in MK11. MKX Kitana was one of my favorite characters with sharpen, parry and float cancels. MK9 Kitana was also pretty cool to play as with her long combos and quick, fast reaching normals.I'll say it, but am I the only one who finds Kitana extremely barebones?
I'm not calling her bad or anything, and she's in a much better state than others, but I feel like she's lacking something, that I can't quite put my finger on.
Like, all of your gameplan is around B2,B4, 2413. Not saying that other characters have a deeper gameplan, but I don't know, I feel like I need some sauce. As much as I find her Bombwind set-ups good, they are always the same thing over and over. I feel like a good reversal, or a new good string we can use would do her justice. Really miss ground war from Mk11
She absolutely is barebones which is why her kameo choices define her game plan so heavily. She's a really strange "jack of all trades, master of none" with not a whole lot of crazy things to do on her own. Windbomb is truly her only sauce, and that stuff only works in the corner which she isn't the greatest at getting opponents to. She has fantastic corner carry on combos, but she doesn't have the strings / normals to justify going in close to pressure opponents constantly.I'll say it, but am I the only one who finds Kitana extremely barebones?
I'm not calling her bad or anything, and she's in a much better state than others, but I feel like she's lacking something, that I can't quite put my finger on.
Like, all of your gameplan is around B2,B4, 2413. Not saying that other characters have a deeper gameplan, but I don't know, I feel like I need some sauce. As much as I find her Bombwind set-ups good, they are always the same thing over and over. I feel like a good reversal, or a new good string we can use would do her justice. Really miss ground war from Mk11
I was saying this several months back, that Mortal Kombat 1 has very few kombo starters compared to previous games. I was using Mileena as my example where it's the "1,2" show. Compare that to Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate where she had 1,1 , B1,1 , 3,4 , F4, 3, 2,3,3 , etc.
Her kombo paths were as were everyone's in that game as it was not a kombo game by design. Otherwise I disagree. Overall I find invdividual characters have better normals and strings and general utility of them in Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate. They had to since it wasn't a kombo game, and that, along with Krushing Blows, is how you got your damage through solid neutral play.
Of course. I am just making the direct (obviously dishonest) comparison of MKX Kitana and MK11 Kitana just to say I didn't quite like playing her in MK11. One of the reasons I loved playing Skarlet was because she inherited a functionally identical parry from MKX Kitana.
