Are you sure about that? Did you test it or are you just throwing out a theory? Because Both his opps blocked his 312 strings no problem. Replacing the 2 with a smoke bomb is still 3 hits... so I think it would be extremely unlikely that the 4 times he threw it, 2 separate opps blocked the first two hits but forgot to block the smoke bomb.
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Now that I think about it, having a low and an overhead in the same string would make the otg complaints look trivial. Smoke should get a low launcher as well though.
It's not going to happen. Someone asked him and he said it bluntly: "Smoke doesn't need a low. He is not a mixup character."
So we're just gonna get bodied by the pressure and mixup players? Thanks NRS.
*shrug*
He has frame advantage on all his launcher strings? That is interesting and helpful to know, but doesn't help when you're fighting rush down, he can't combo back before the guy rushing down goes back to his business. I mean the tools he has to get out of the situation either cost meter or are easily punished.
holy crap he does lol. you have to time it right to where the kick hits just as he's waking up, but he definitely has a frame advantage. I'm sure it looses to wakeup fast specials, but still.... I just put on practice mode with a standing block always on, and I was able to loop a 3 d2 1.
i dont want to hear it from a reptile player
no we dont
From what I hear the dash has more recovery on it so it isn't safe.
lmao. it's all good man.
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Anyway, yeah Smoke does have trouble against non-zoners but do you really expect him to be good against everyone? He has a specific "job" and that is to beat zoners. Other fighting games have this where there are characters designed to fight certain types of characters. Take for example, E. Honda in ST. He has trouble against people with a fireball, but he wrecks people who don't. You see? He has a specific purpose, and that is to counter non-zoners, as it is Smoke's purpose to counter zoners.
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THTB did have a point about using invisibility though. Today, I saw that opponents are caught off guard more often with invisibility when doing 3, D+1, 2 as well as b+2, 3. Perhaps the MK team had a different idea about how to use Smoke, I think he's shaping up to be a strictly mind-game character with decent enough damage to make opponents to back off to get back to anti-zoning. That's probably why we were given the oki bomb as an air throw follow up as it moves the opponent a quite a distance away.
The comma: Look at it again. Notice that the newer tweets are above the older ones, then consider that the one with the comma is below the one with the period. It should be obvious that the one with the comma came first and then came the one with the period.