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Discussion How Do You All Decide Who Your Main Is? Who is it and why?

Does more than a character fitting your play style play a role in the hunt?

  • Yes

    Votes: 56 78.9%
  • No

    Votes: 7 9.9%
  • Not exactly sure...

    Votes: 8 11.3%

  • Total voters
    71

D7X

EMPEROR | D7X
Just a discussion of how you decide!
Me personally, I have to like the character and think they look awesome! I need awesome visuals. I also have to have fun pulling off the combos without getting too frustrated (I'm looking at you wasp cancels.) I thought Jacqui's combos for shotgun were really fun to do, but I really dislike how she looks and her character, so I couldn't stick it out.
Sadly, some characters I'll have to drop because I can't find a guide that fits me.
They also have to be viable for high level play. (RIP Hat Trick- I love you Hat Trick, please NRS, buff him if anyone of you read this, and Dualist. Also Balanced Kenshi- Klassic MK9 Kenshi needs a buff)
I also love "set up" or "trap" characters. (RIP Cyrax)
My main motivation for making this is how hard it is to find a main for me, and my impulsiveness keeps making me switch (Tips on that would be awesome lol). Almost all of these factors are scattered between characters. There is a lot more, but not going to write a whole essay on how I decide.

Anyway, how do you all decide your main? =)
 

x TeeJay o

Canary Cry Gapless Pressure
For sure i play people i absolutely love. When the game came out, my favorite MK characters all time where

1.Rain

2.Kitana

3.Mileena

4.Smoke

5.Shinnok

Obviously there was no rain or smoke. So i went Kitana and for a while, I loved her(still do) but she's a zoner and I like to be in your face 24/7. Mileena was a close second with ravenous, but she just didn't fit me either. I ended up trying out cassie who i thought before the game came out would be my main for the entirety of MKX. but that quickly changed once i read the comics and finished the story. D'Vorah was so badass in the comics and her design is just awesome. Once i went in the lab with her i went in with Venomus first and i was like nahhhh fam lol. But going to swarm queen next it hit me like a truck. Cancels,good normals,damage ect. I fell in love instantly. So yeah im sure playing your favorite character is the most obvious choice for some, but if they don't fit you and you really don't want to play the way they are designed it's alright to find your next best thing. Good thing D'vorah is now my second favorite of all time. I could never switch up on my edenian goddess ^.^
 

TopTierHarley

Kytinn King
All about design. The character has to look cool, I'll play whatever their gameplan is as long as they are visually appealing to me. D'Vorah is the coolest character design in an NRS game.
 

Dankster Morgan

It is better this way
I picked sub because he is my favorite character, I like being defensive and the ice Klone is one of the only usable defensive tools in the game, he is a 50/50 but he isn't a vortex asshole. Very powerful corner game so the rewarding to land a hit. Play the neutral until you can force a mistake or open them up or if they try to anti cross up you(lol) then put them in the corner and make them your bitch. He is just a rewarding character and he isn't broken and isn't bad. He is just a good balanced character and he looks awesome.
 

D7X

EMPEROR | D7X
All about design. The character has to look cool, I'll play whatever their gameplan is as long as they are visually appealing to me. D'Vorah is the coolest character design in an NRS game.
Really? Even if their play style doesn't fit you and they're boring? That's torture for me man.
 

D7X

EMPEROR | D7X
For sure i play people i absolutely love. When the game came out, my favorite MK characters all time where

1.Rain

2.Kitana

3.Mileena

4.Smoke

5.Shinnok

Obviously there was no rain or smoke. So i went Kitana and for a while, I loved her(still do) but she's a zoner and I like to be in your face 24/7. Mileena was a close second with ravenous, but she just didn't fit me either. I ended up trying out cassie who i thought before the game came out would be my main for the entirety of MKX. but that quickly changed once i read the comics and finished the story. D'Vorah was so badass in the comics and her design is just awesome. Once i went in the lab with her i went in with Venomus first and i was like nahhhh fam lol. But going to swarm queen next it hit me like a truck. Cancels,good normals,damage ect. I fell in love instantly. So yeah im sure playing your favorite character is the most obvious choice for some, but if they don't fit you and you really don't want to play the way they are designed it's alright to find your next best thing. Good thing D'vorah is now my second favorite of all time. I could never switch up on my edenian goddess ^.^
Fuck the Bug Cancels though. Spending hours on something in video games when I could be learning to code instead always bothered me.
 

God Confirm

We're all from Earthrealm. If not, cool pic brah.
I cycled through a few characters, but it was mostly just to find a secondary. Hellfire just fit for me like no other character ever has. He wasn't my first choice, and I didn't envision myself learning him. Once I picked him up however the playstyle just clicked, although learning the execution took a while, I knew he was what I wanted.
 

Arzumis

Noob
Like toptierharley said, I choose a character who appeals to me. Their costume is cool or their personality is awesome. I played Superman and Zod in Injustice and and MKX I play Quan Chi and Cassie Cage.

Learning quan was difficult for me because i like good neutral and defensive options but i liked the character so much i made it work. Cassie gameplay feels more like my style plus i like her design almost as much as Quan's so I play them both an equal amount. coincidentally, i feel they cover each others bad mu's for the most part. If the characters i like are not complete trash i can make it work
 

myri

Time Warrior
If I don't like the character design or personality I don't play them. I haved dabbled in many characters like Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Bo' Rai Cho and Triborg. None of them really stuck though. But then I picked up Tempest Kung Lao and I just really like playing him even after the patches. Been searching for a secondary for ages and nothing has grabbed me in the same way as Tempest Lao.
 

JerzeyReign

PSN: JerzeyReign
I voted 'yes' because I'm going to pick my favorite character (Mileena) every single time and I don't really care if she fits my style or not.
 

DDutchguy

Stand 4'ing airplanes out of the sky
Like most people here, character design is what made it for me. I've always liked mentor characters and Raiden filled the part quite well. His story in MK9 was very interesting to me and lightning has always been one of my favorite game powers.
 

Damaja325

Stylin' & Low Profilin'
I have to like how the character looks but more importantly, how they play. Mileena is super sexy and hella fun to play. Also, out of all the characters i've dabbled with, she just feels the most comfortable for me.
 

D7X

EMPEROR | D7X
I have to like how the character looks but more importantly, how they play. Mileena is super sexy and hella fun to play. Also, out of all the characters i've dabbled with, she just feels the most comfortable for me.
Complete opposite for me, haha. I have a habit of over teleporting and rolling (Very unsafe)
 

chrisisnice

I'm a lover, not a fighter
Mine is like a flow chart. For a main, it goes something like this

Is Kitana in the game?
Yes.. OK... Kitana

No...
Is Tanya in the game?
Yes... OK, Tanya

No...
Is there a cool female character in the game???
OK, search over (/looks at Ashrah and Li Mei!)


For a secondary, it is always Mileena
 

TamedLizard

Buff George
Yeah there will never be a game (obviously unless he's not in it) NRS makes that I'm not maining Reptile. Grew up maining him and that'll never change. So I guess loyalty?

But also visuals and aesthetics when it comes to secondaries.
 

Sage Leviathan

I'm platinum mad!
I decide my mains by asking:
-is their lore interesting?
-are they wearing a mask?
-are they selfish, prideful, or lonesome?

Thus how I came to Noob Saibot and Erron Black.
 
character design, and how they play. i generally like characters with good footsies, normals, and pressure. Dvora is my main and i love her. I also like sektor, tremor (cuz for w/e reason doing rock cancel pressure makes me feel like a badass they are just fun to do), and alien.
 
MKII was the first video game I ever played. I always loved Scorpion, so naturally I play him in every game.

Picking my characters from a gameplay standpoint I love a well rounded fighters. I usually end up playing with Liu Kang in every game lol.