Her rushdown is really easy to stop, most of the matches ive seen people play against crazy Dominican the wrong way. They dont poke out correctly and not punishing correctly like Ive punished cutter. Ive seen players getting blown up by f21 into d1 cutter. 212 which gives negative frames , 21 cutter can be ducked and full punishment, 112 is negative unless cancel into cutter (first 1 will wiff if ducked), d1 alone is -15 on block if cancel into cutter it is a full punishment and kitana has to commit. And ALL her wake up can be beaten by d4 (unless its square wave). The only that is strong about her is the 21 footsie game and awesome AA. She has no mid starter so theres NO POINT of blocking high against her, that cutter will wiff. She can do b12, but you can see b1 is coming and block the 2 (2 is a mid). Worst she could do is put you in a block string with NO cutter, but if she cant do cutter then she cant build meter that fast. What the worst she can do? she can grab. The funny thing is that ex cutter can be punished by a full combo if ducked as well
People dont even punish cutter with a full combo, I mean they do uppercuts and uppercuts are the same speed as the combo starter... Pretty sure 2-3 more months, kitana wont be in top 5 anymore. Unless crazy dominican can prove me wrong, I dont think I have break down any character like I have with kitana cause thats 90% of my game are vs kitana (my sparring partner)
Her zoning isnt even that good Liu kang, reptile, kabal, mileena, smoke, kunglao, and freddy beat her in zoning. So she has to come close, if she is closed you can do the close range strat above
Plus she has so many bad match ups to be top 5. Now explain to me how is she top 5. I believe kitana vs reptile is 6-4 reptile, maybe even worst to be honest.
This is for reptile only: If you are duck blocking and she does d1. You can punish with dash. If she does d1 cutter, you can combo. This match up is so hard for kitana. This is all my knowledge of this match up, thanks for reading lol.