I move around opponents messing up their spacing. I use training mode to figure out actual attack distances of attacks and exploit that letting them think they'll hit me when in face they miss, eg. Standing at the end of a shadow kick just out of range for example. Or just barely out of jump kick distance. The other thing I focused on is punishment, some people give you very small windows of attack like reptile and mileena, so I learned tiny counters to shove them into big combos. I'd say 1,3 is his most useful and underused method of punishing teleporters. I don't use breakers because its a waste of valuable power for attacks when I can just be more careful and avoid getting hit in the first place, and if I do get hit, my up skulls immediately break their combos when they come down. What I admire about shang is that you need to play him like a chess master, everything is best predicted far in advance. After a while its like a reflex faking people out and punishing. Try not using breakers for about 50 matches and trust me youll find escape routes too. With discipline you'll end up using just the right exit vs each char. Faster ones like scorpion are still s bit harder because their mixups are so fast, but now I can almost fully avoid him without blocking so I don't get trapped in the first place. I guess the trick is looking at how they set you up, then avoid doing that one thing. Usually its jumping.
some are about 60% damage. Especially grappling ones. You gotta be good with everyone pretty much tho.
