Cyrax General Discussion

[ImpostorOak]

Who all is maining Cyrax? What Kameos are you using?

So far I'm enjoying Sonya and Sektor, and looking to test Frost and Tremor

 

[SaltShaker]

@ImpostorOak You are trying out Cyrax? How do you like them so far gameplay-wise?

 

[ImpostorOak]

@ImpostorOak You are trying out Cyrax? How do you like them so far gameplay-wise?

Yeah I've been lacking this month but all the time I've spent playing since the DLC drop has been Sektor and Cyrax.

I love Sektor, but I started messing with Cyrax a couple days ago and I just can't stop playing her. This is deadass the perfect Cyrax moveset, IMO. She's cheap af just requiring a little execution for some of the setups.

 

[wsj515]

Just dipping my toes into the character now, but Sub Zero seems super good - feels like every move he has does something Cyrax wants. Ice armor is great, shoulder is great to actually end a string in a safe way, and freeze gives disgusting setups and turns b1 into a full combo. Early days but parry conceptually seems really great, with uses like d1 parry, whiff punish with parry, or mixing 23 parry, 23 parry throw (plus, jails s1), 234 (plus), etc.

 

[wsj515]

Anyone have a combo off of sweep into bomb popup? The normal conversion from grab / b2 doesn't seem to work, the grav scaling seems completely jacked.

I've been doing b4 (bomb) s3 bf1, df2 df2 df2, (bomb 1) s1 (bomb 2) s1 (bomb 3) sub freeze, does like 25% looped back into original setup scenario

 

[LEGEND]

Just dipping my toes into the character now, but Sub Zero seems super good - feels like every move he has does something Cyrax wants. Ice armor is great, shoulder is great to actually end a string in a safe way, and freeze gives disgusting setups and turns b1 into a full combo. Early days but parry conceptually seems really great, with uses like d1 parry, whiff punish with parry, or mixing 23 parry, 23 parry throw (plus, jails s1), 234 (plus), etc.

played against someone using Sareena for the B1 combo as well. having to deal with the extra threat of B1 up close and projectiles in the range game makes Cyrax so much more frustrating to deal with imo

EDIT: I don't think the Sub ice armor is really a factor when she can trade a goo ball in the zoning game and go into the vortex.

 

[wsj515]

played against someone using Sareena for the B1 combo as well. having to deal with the extra threat of B1 up close and projectiles in the range game makes Cyrax so much more frustrating to deal with imo

EDIT: I don't think the Sub ice armor is really a factor when she can trade a goo ball in the zoning game and go into the vortex.

idk I think goo ball is great but sometimes you are just going to get zoned and will take a lot of damage / chip waiting for that trade to happen, especially not great if you're at a life deficit.