BlaqandMild15
Noob
Hello everyone.Im not a *BIG NAME* player who goes to a lot of tournaments and all that.I wish i could but I can't because Im working two jobs and attending school.With that being said, I hope you guys hear me out on this.MK has died out in my area and i still play the hell out of it.mainly in practice mode and online.Ive been to a couple of tournaments and I did really well even though I only play ranked online.I main reptile along with the most of you guys.I want to know how you guys capitalize with reptile.are you aggressive?smart?go for high fancy combos?I believe that reptile is the most customizable character in the game.his only downside to me is that he can be out zoned by anyone if I'm not mistaking.I use him in a way that i have to have momentum to beat an extremely great player.with that being said,I have to be aggressive and smart.Often I look at the battle through my opponents eyes.If I anticipate a teleport,I block and punish.(for most opponents)Projectile,I EN slide,opponent jumps I EN fb.I don't know if Im the only reptile who do this but I've never seen or played against anyone who do what Im about to tell you.lets start off with subzero.EN slide has armor on projectiles as you may already know.It also has armor on ice clones too.Im tired of seeing subzeros keeping reptile at bay in the corner with his damn ice clones and reptile have meter.EN slide through them and get the hell out that corner because reptile is no good in the corner.especially against subzero.second, JIP then 2(now you opponent is stunned)so you know what that means?combos.But what if they block the 2 don't worry.Its the safest move reptile have.If they block the and try to hit you,guess what,the forceball will not be interrupted and you have a free combo if they dont break it.if you end the combo with 421,do it all over again because most people will get up and automatically just block.And they fall for the exact same thing again.You can also do the EN acid hand after JIP 2.If your opponent catches on and don't fall for it.Instead, JIP 2 slide or EN dash,go invisible,whatever you can do to get in their head.*(But you can't JIP 2 421 if you are wondering,they can be interrupted)*If your in question about this, try it out for yourself in practice mode and in an actual game.you will thank me big time.One more thing.The smoke shake.I've never seen anybody do this but I do it all the time.If your fighting smoke, punish his teleport a couple of times to make him think twice about it and get in his face enough to make him want to play keep away.Do enough forceballs so that he will use the shake.let him get a couple of counters on you.Now he's conditioned to it so do another slow one so that he do the shake again.You are probably thinking''is this guy nuts?"No Im not.that's what you want him to do.But you can cancel the forceball with an EN forceball.Cancel it when it gets close to smoke but not too close.Now you have a new forceball coming out and it should be the slow one and smoke can't recover quick enough because you just dashed in and put him in a combo.It's also useful to use the forceball cancel after 421 but that takes as much good timing as the dash NJP.Slow fb can be canceled into an EN slow fb.vice versa.same for the fas force ball but a little more difficult because you have a small window to do it.I found this to be really useful against sonya when she uses one of her dive kicks as a wakeup after 421.Extremely useful against Kano because of the wakeup Ball.The is really good against players who can't teleport,plus it buys you extra time if executed right and you can continue to rush down.But be careful who you use this on.be aware of your opponent's armor moves and the skill level of your opponent.Oh yea and it's probably not a good idea to do this on raiden because of his teleport.So thats it for now guy.this is how I utilize my reptile in nutshell.I know how to do all the flashy combos but this is the game plan i stick too because it really works.My ranked W/L ratio went to maybe 400/90 ever since Ive been doing this.I want you guys to give this tactic a try for a few matches and tell me how it goes for you.If you have something to share I'd like to hear it because that's what make Mk a great game is how we continue to discover things about the characters.