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Discovery Safe 50/50 Option Select Using Negative Edge

ryublaze

Noob
Turning on Release Check (Negative Edge) allows you to make certain 50/50s safe when near an interactable. Negative Edge allows you to input 1/2/3/4 before up/down/left/right for a special move. Using this you can get a special move to come out on hit and an interactable to come out on block.

With Ermac you can make both his overhead and low safe. When going for the low, normally you would input b3 Teleport (db4). With Negative Edge you would input it as b34db. If you are near an interactable, you can make it safe by immediately inputting the interactable button right after.

My interactable button is L1 so I would input it as: b34dbL1.


Here are examples using the option select with other characters:



Also if you haven't, check out the other Option Select thread which helps characters like Sub-Zero and Sun God Kotal Kahn:
https://testyourmight.com/threads/negative-edge-option-select.60985/

EDIT: I found out how to do this without interactables but this only works for some 50/50s. Also it's REALLY hard to do but I'm just showing that the option select is there.

With Cyber Sub-Zero you can make his low starter safe by inputting b31bfd4.


Ermac can also make his low starter safer (-10 on block). You input it as: b34db3 really fast.

 
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Pan1cMode

AUS FGC represent!
This is a lot more useful than some people realise. This gives characters plus launching 50/50s. I hope people grasp the gravity of that.

Sure it's somewhat situational, but geeze it's gonna be important later on.
 

Scott The Scot

Where there is smoke, there is cancer.
This is a lot more useful than some people realise. This gives characters plus launching 50/50s. I hope people grasp the gravity of that.

Sure it's somewhat situational, but geeze it's gonna be important later on.
At this point I like to believe players are pretty aware of their environment in matches so it'd be cool to see this implememented in high level play.
 

YoloRoll1stHit

Publicly Educated
Ermac's b34 is still unsafe but well....suddenly it feels like I'm playing Injustice with all the plus on block 50/50s and broken interractables
 

PND_Ketchup

"More deadly than the dawn"
This is a very big discovery. Good job man!

Also good job to everyone that's found something similar too, very important.
 

DC4-3

Low tier button masher.
Anyone trying this in-game or is it too early? I wouldn't mind turning into a hit confirming god.
 

STRYKIE

Are ya' ready for MK11 kids?!
While this is a pretty messed up loophole, friendly reminder that some interactibles aren't fast enough to jail from some of those mixups, or the interactibles itself (like the steel panel in the Emperor's courtyard) are are actually negative on block. :p
 

Invincible Salads

Seeker of knowledge
This is huge for Ermac and other characters with unsafe 50/50s. I don't know why anybody wouldn't want to learn this. There's an entire meta in this game that is unexplored because people don't know or refuse to learn about option selects.
because it shouldnt be here in the first place, they tried to get rid of it once and failed aparently, i've been playing the game without negative edge for a year, and i refuse to relearn how to play my characters with negative edge and how change up all the inputs to get them. I prefer to play without negative edge and thats what im gonna keep doing, more power to whoever wants to play with it on, but thats not me.

ill use any OS that doesnt involve switching to negative edge otherwise.
 

Dizzy

False Information Police Officer
Premium Supporter
NetherRealm Studios
When Ermac had safe low launcher with the original OS, none of the Ermac players took time to learn it. I'd be very surprised if any Ermac player bothered with these, considering the original OS was much more powerful.

Definitely interesting tech though @Red Raptor