1) No but it's fast enough to where you'd use it in much the same way you'd use MB torryuken, which is to blow up air attacks. Only difference is memory serving MB flip kick puts you a safe distance away.
2) I'll see if I can record it, I got myself doing about 40% for one bar with a puddle down and being able to pressure into chip without the opponent having an escape option. By the by, Lackey can get about 50% for 1 bar but the combo is highly impractical. 45% is the safer option.
3) I'm saying that yes, they shouldn't be trying to poke at a range where Lackey excels, being at peak b.12 and near-peak d.1 range. If they find themselves at that range, they can just block low and anything lackey does will make him lose his turn to most of the cast's options. Also your experience is weird because I've got the timing pretty down to where if a Lackey throws an EX torryu and gets the first hit blocked or whiffed I can just jab or uppercut him on the way down because the second half doesn't have armor on it.
4) I guess so, but his b.2 is incredibly short range. At point blank, a 23 frame move when we don't have anything that gives plus frames shouldn't hit a person. You don't have to respect Lackey Torr for the most part when he presses buttons since the only gimme tactic he has is throwing out random MB torryukens and hoping to catch someone sleeping, and as I said before most of the cast can either jab him out of the second half or low profile the first part and cause it to whiff.
5) At full screen there's not much reason not to hold back, and most characters projectiles will recover in time to do so. People not knowing to do it isn't the same as it being hard to do. Also you're only at plus one, unless you're just throwing out d.1 which converts into nothing or MAYBE standing 2. Then yeah maybe against like Liu Kang who has slow jab options.
6) It's really not and it's called Torryuken. I've worked that move into the ground, if people knew how easy it was to blow out no one would ever get hit by it again.
@Hollywood DMS saw it firsthand and actually did it to me in a match. I threw the MB torryuken against his cassie and he either air jabbed me out on the way down or at one point he flip kicked me for a full combo. It was gross, but he CAN confirm what I'm saying about the armor.
7) IT really is, and it's better used by the other two variations. I think the character gets a pass because Ruthless exists, but no one actually uses Lackey Variation because a lot of MUs are 3-7 against him or worse, and there aren't any that are decidedly better than 5-5. I refuse to buy the bill that blood god loses to us simply because no Kotal knows how to play the lame game.
