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Which fighting type do you think your character was built to fit in?

Eddy Wang

Skarlet scientist
Clearly in this MK, there is actually 3 types of fighting Styles that one character was build to fight around with, these styles are respectivly:

- Projectile (Zoning) - Characters who gain the edge by fighting so far away from his opponents using projectiles, regularly some of these character has poor rushdown options or simply doesn't have good armor or not armor at all, their strings tends to be too slow
Note: Zoning ising simply throwing projectiles, but its seems that is what the community defines at this game

- Rushdown - Characters who gain the edge by fighting up close, regulary some of these characters have faster startup strings, that are neutral on block, and come with some armor on their moves to be able to get in, also their zoning is not always that good.

- Turtle - Characters who can't do zoning and rushdown effectively either, they may have an ok zoning and an ok rushdown but if they get careless for a short while these character its highly punishable on 1st mistakes, their best move has armor but still can be highly punishable on block.
These characters main strategy is fighting defensively and place on what the community regularly calls it footsies, to go around the opponent strategies and deal with it


- misc - Character that can mix between 2 of this types and do it very well, but not so effectively like some character or are originally build based on one of these fighting types.

I don't play the entire rooster, but it would be fun to know how the entire rooster of MK9 is build based, and in which types of fighting styles does they fit.
 
I'm thinking Kratos is a Turtle; he doesn't excel at rushdown nor zoning. He is a fighter based on reads, and can punish the opponent's mistakes very hard.
 

Eddy Wang

Skarlet scientist
This is what i think:
Scorpion - Turtle
Liu Kang - Rushdown
Kung Lao - Rushdown
Sub-Zero - Turtle
Sonya - Rushdown
Sindel - Misc( Rushdown/ Zoning)
Ermac - Zoning
Mileena - Turtle
Noob Saibot - Zoning
Nightwolf - Turtle
Kitana - Misc(Zoning/ Turtle)
Raiden - Turtle
Reptile - Turtle
Cage - Rushdown
Cyrax - misc(Zoning/Rushdown)
Sektor - Misc (Zoning/ Rushdown)
Jade - Turtle
Shang Tsung - misc (Zoning/ Rushdown)
Kabal - misc (Rushdown/ Zoning)
Stryker - Turtle
Baraka - Turtle
Rain - Turtle
Freddy - misc(Zoning/ Turtle)
Kratos - Zoning
Cyber Sub-Zero - Turtle
Skarlet - misc(Turtle/ Rushdown)
Kenshi - Zoning
 

STRYKIE

Are ya' ready for MK11 kids?!
I suppose Scorpion is a zoner more than anything, but yeah considering this community's ideology of what zoning is then he'd have to be miscellaneous.
 

quandaghost

kung lao swag walker
Scorpion has to be a Turtle character. Though he has the tools to rushdown he has to get started and build the momentum to do so. He much like akuma falls underneath the Fundamentals/rushdown
 

NKZero

Warrior
Sektor: defensive footsies/zoning/anti-zoning
Sub Zero: turtle
Cage: rush down
Shang Tsung: zoning/rush down
 

CrimsonShadow

Administrator and Community Engineer
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There also needs to be a new category for characters like cage. He can pressure, but rather than mixups he thrives on spacing and whiff punishing, AA's, and the like.. He's not a turtle, but he will capitalize on your every mistake.

Also Jax fits at least two of these categories, so I guess he's a misc. :)

I don't know if I'd classify Ermac as a pure zoner.. His game is really more about pressure, and then getting you to whiff or make a mistake so he can combo you into oblivion. His zoning is a useful tool, but it's not his main mode of operating like a Sindel, Kenshi, Freddy etc.
 

Eddy Wang

Skarlet scientist
well a lot of her strings are 0 on block,
yup it is, but have a very slow startup, the bigger problem is, when she is about to rush someone down, the opposition may have faster strings than her, and this person can eventually trade.

I say jade is turtle, because she must play footsies to win, work a lot with spacing strategies and whiff punish with her strings and launchers, just like skarlet or Noob Saibbot