KL's offense isn't as strong, but his mobility, as overrated as it is, is still really strong and tends to be a serious deterrent to a lot of spacing in MK9. You also have to remember, his divekick has the best hitbox out of any divekick in the game...and when I say the best, I mean it is impossible to even hit the character out of it without using something that air crushes, has some seriously disjointed hitboxes, is a projectile, or has armor. In the projectile case, he'll just outspeed you often enough, same with the disjointed hitbox, unless you do it early. Air crushes are pretty much just the AA throws, and only Cyrax's is really that reliable at hitting him out of it. Teleport also forces hesitation on AAs.
He's exceedingly reliant on his mobility for his pressure, which is really punishable if you do the wrong thing. 21, 1121, etc, whiff on the first hit on a crouching opponent, which is a big problem, considering how slow his moves that hit crouching opponents are, bar spin. Of course, you're not always going to predict what he does when he jumps, which is where most of his damage will come from, but eventually he's going to do something that ends his pressure if he doesn't spin or will be read properly.
His ground-based pressure is truthfully mediocre, but his saving grace is the best 6f attack in the game being backed by a few 0-on-block scenarios he can obtain if he forces you to stand. I think he's top 10, but he's playing much more risky than a lot of the other top 10 characters actually do. The problem is that waiting for him to fuck up 100% of the time, realistically, doesn't work as it does on paper. It balances out, but I definitely see his problems that people tend to ignore or undermine.
I see so many people arguing about how KL. Not Jax's F4 or Cyrax.
