Briggs8417
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Why do you feel the need to be a DICK?! Also, Reptile is better overall than Kitana, Jax, Smoke, and Cage.
Why do you feel the need to be a DICK?! Also, Reptile is better overall than Kitana, Jax, Smoke, and Cage.
Give me facts. JC full screen is ass, but up close his pressure is top tier, not Kabal tier, but pretty high. Jax rushdown is better as well, and in corner he has more tools than reptile. Again, full screen reptile is better. Smoke can get away from pressure, all his strings are safe, his projectiles always win, his pokes are great, you can't zone him and he has a reset. Toolwise he's better than reptile. Kitana though, the only thing she has over reptile is her close up pressure.
How am I being a dick?
why are you hurting my feelings? ;_; I do think that instead of trying to classify reptile in an ultimately pointless list we should be breaking down the mus and finding ways around them.
I don't like how matchups get based of stuff like that, but it seems that even in high level play reptile's dash and mileenas teleport dont get punished either consistently or it doesnt get punished hard to its fullest potential.
Of course. Here's the big thing- Reptile doesn't have 3-7s (or worse) MUs. He has two to perhaps four 4-6 MUs, which are all extremely winnable. JC goes 3-7 on a good day with Kabal and Kenshi, but it's more likely those MUs are 2-8 at the highest level. Reptile goes even with Kenshi, and is still extremely effective against KL with his low hitbox, dash, and space control with forceballs. Kabal is limited in his zoning by forceballs, and Reptile has a small hitbox which limits Kabal's rushdown options. Reptile is just so unsafe in the MUs, and has limited damage against KL's teleport. Still 4-6s though and KL may be a 5-5.
As for Jax, he is limited against characters that make f4 1 whiff, and there are eleven of those if I'm not mistaken. Without f4 he has to rely on his standing to hit crouching opponents which is 15 frames and waaay easier to deal with. F4 OHS can also be used, but poked or uppercut out of by anyone, unless he honestly wants to burn that meter on a harder knockdown for 15%. In the corner he is godlike, probably the best actually. Midscreen he does ok damage off of his GP setups that can be avoided.
It's Kl's mobility, he can go wherever he wants on screen and there is little Reptile can do. Reptile can punish teleport, but it isn't easy to do consistently. Reptile also can't zone, it's just a waste. Spin has to always be respected, because most of the time it beats out dash. I guess basically it just comes down to Reptile has to play Kung Lao's game. It's only slight favor, if any at all. I have been thinking lately it could be 5-5, because Reptile's oki game is shockingly more effective than I thought with the right setups.
No worries dude I'm playin'How am I being a dick?
also that's what I've been doing, which I am going to test my stuff out more before I post about it, but I think that there are a couple more characters we can scratch off of the list, those being Kung Lao and Skarlet.
Let me add that jaxs new f4 wave tech no longer leaves him open 4 full punish like f4 1 would so yea. Also jax can deal with reptile in mid screen easily with proper pokes n grabs not to mention jk air grabs
I don't think either were designed to be full combo punished per se, too many players tend to assume they can just go full retard on anything they block that's -10 or more, they need to distinguish what's unsafe, and what's disadvantage. I personally only have Scorp/Mil as a 6-4 Scorp because he legit punishes her shenanigans meterless harder than anyone else and can get a vortex setup from them, and even when she guesses right she doesn't have much of an answer. Reptile on the other hand has tons of dumb shit to make Lao's #1 asset (mobility) moot, seems pretty 5-5 to me.
I totally forgot about that new smart stuff haha, I need to work on that. Also, midscreen Reptile can handle Jax just as well as Jax can Reptile. I honestly think the MU itself is a 5-5, but as a whole Jax just has more problems.
you got to switch kitty whit skarlet jeje
skarlet is not better than kitty.
Ok 6-9 need to get behind Cyrax and Reptile and it looks right.
Especially Cyrax, but I don't want to derail my own thread so I won't get into that haha.
No way that Smoke is a bad matchup for Reptile. Probably even.
Not so much of a family man.
Actually he does want to be a family man, after mk is over.
First of all, I agree with mostly everything (although I still think kl-reptile is 7-3 and maybe sonya too but whatever).
Are you telling me you think Reptile BEATS KABAL, or am I reading that completely out of whack? Also, I don't think KL is anywhere near that bad, lol. It does feel that way against the right KL's sometimes though haha.
