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Video/Tutorial PROPERLY Defending vs Raiden

Phase 3

Feels Good Man
It's good I guess, but I'll just wait for REO's.





Just kidding. Wouldn't be a Tom Brady thread without a little trolling. Good shit as always. I'm glad to see the trolling hasn't stopped you from making great contributions.
 

Phosferrax

Original Liu Kang cop.
How consistent is a d1 when trying to interrupt his strings? The risk/reward isn't great...
 
Good shit tom, Actually about the d4 interrupting 334, is sonya able to do that as well? cuz if thats possible thats crazy because she can enter ms and fuck him up.
 

B W1zZ

Noob
Kung Lao Raiden 5-5 my ass.I knew about all of this.But no one believes me.
It's 5-5 regardless of being able to interrupt.

Good video Tom, but people think this automatically makes Raiden a trash character, or turns his 5-5's into 6-4 matchups.
 

Albo

Noob
How consistent is a d1 when trying to interrupt his strings? The risk/reward isn't great...
As tom mentioned you're better of using an armoured move, xray or a poke that lowers a characters hitbox considerably like mileena's d4, sonya's d4 (maybe ermacs d3?). The reward favors Raiden in my opinion since you'll have to be on point with a 6f d1 every time but on the other hand most characters d1's have less recovery than say most armoured/xray moves so if raiden does cancel into teleport mid string, or does ex tele, you'll probably be able to recover before he can recover from teleport so you'll be able to prevent him from punishing your whiffed d1. Please test this yourself though if you can though and as Tom said in the vid, the whole point of using armour/xray is that you will most of the time get hit by the third hits off 334/b312 when attempting to interrupt but armour allows you to take the hit a which otherwise very difficult to interrupt consistently with non armour/low hitbox poke or parry.
 

Konqrr

MK11 Kabal = MK9 Kitana
It's all about yomi...

* is he going to tele his strings? I can 114 or 21 to punish
* is he going to finish the string? I can ex cartwheel

It's not like you are blind to what Raiden will do and you have to guess... you can see and react to what the player decides to do.

What Tom Brady has said from DAY ONE is that this is a game about reads, it STILL is to this day.
 

GamerBlake90

Blue Blurs for Life!
Excellent video, Tom. This Thunder God approves.

Everyone's so focused on his b3 1 2 and 3 3 4 strings, they seem to forget about Raiden's f2 4, which is safe on block, gives pushback, and is overall a reliable string. If you're going against a character who can interrupt those strings, why use them when you can just do f2 4 or use low pokes and throws?

With Raiden, you want to land as many throws as possible. I don't consider his rushdown something to brag about and I'm sure fellow Raiden players can attest to this.