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MrProfDrPepper

NRS, Guilty Gear, and KI, the holy trinity
Yeah but 4,4 just seems easy and leaves me feeling like I could do much more you know? I wish I could play Lasher like you, but instead I find myself playing Kenjutsu which also happens to be an under-represented variation.
:DOGE
The thing about 44 whip strike though is the follow ups are amazing, since the higher you get whip strike to hit the more plus you are, so you can have many follow ups yup cover many situations, like for example running up B21 will cover tech roll and jump ins, low slash will cover people trying to wake up run, and poke, you can run up and grab when they are getting scared and you can run up block to bait armor, you can jump in f1 112combo to blow up armor, you can cross them up also if you want to mess up the inputs of their wake up, or you can use it to regain your spacing while pushing them to the corner. Or you can do ex kunai to immediately make them afraid to do anything
 

CrazyFingers

The Power of Lame Compels You
You could actually make an argument for demo being under represented considering we basically only have one player who's having success with her...granted it's a player that has been consistently one of the best but ya know, still only one guy
 

Solomon Gorondy

Should Goro be top 5?
Cutthroat's EX Buff: On hit, he burns a bar and takes 10% bleed damage while doing his combo. On block, he burns a bar and takes bleed damage until he is hit. Now add other sources of chip damage like Alien's Acid or Erron Black's Caltrops and you can see that Kano using his EX-Buff can backfire big time in those match-ups. Especially when Kano has them cornered and they got their puddles of free damage on screen. Reptiles noxious stink can also be obnoxious.
 

CrazyFingers

The Power of Lame Compels You
Cutthroat's EX Buff: On hit, he burns a bar and takes 10% bleed damage while doing his combo. On block, he burns a bar and takes bleed damage until he is hit. Now add other sources of chip damage like Alien's Acid or Erron Black's Caltrops and you can see that Kano using his EX-Buff can backfire big time in those match-ups. Especially when Kano has them cornered and they got their puddles of free damage on screen. Reptiles noxious stink can also be obnoxious.
I feel like the absurd amount of pressure he can get from it is totally a worth trade off for Kano considering he can make health deficits non existent if he lands a hit but I see your point.
 

Tri-Zero

The Crispy Canceler
Spectral, Hellfire, Sektor seems to as well, fuckin like one person uses dragons fire(in majors and tourneys really). It's a damn shame really.
 

CrazyFingers

The Power of Lame Compels You
I think Spectral has gotten plenty of time to shine. We've seen a lot of really solid Ermacs pick it for certain situations and realm abuse its potential
 

CrazyFingers

The Power of Lame Compels You
Sektor definitely and I wanna say F/T as well but I've been hearing alot about them recently now
Biohazard has consistently shown F/T is strong and that's just him, other players have show the character's strengths to a decent degree...but buff Lackey. TORRYUKEN!
 

Dankster Morgan

It is better this way
Play Venomous or BM and tell me they aren't trash.
They're buns, that's why I specifically said in that post that it doesn't mean ALL of those variations are trash. I don't think BM is total ass but the point is it's useless because of Swarm Queen. Which is why D'Vorah wasn't mentioned in the OP.

This thread isn't meant to find a hidden top tier it's to talk about variations that flew under the radar a bit.
 

Skedar70

Noob
Ferra Thor ruthless. 50 percent midcreen combos, tick throws, cancels, 50/50, completely safe character. Only biohazard used him.
 

Tanno

The Fantasy is the Reality of the Mind
Those would be:

Unbreakable Sub Zero
Tanya
Kano
Summoner Quan Chi
All Cyborgs
 

TyCarter35

Bonafide Jax scrub
Triborg in general is very underrepresented with Sektor and Smoke. Then there's HF who is underused to the point that I'm shocked I've seen more ninjutsu than I see HF. Guess ppl love the disjointed Hitboxes. F/T is underrated. U would think after the buffs it got, more ppl would use it.
 

Shade667

#StrongisthenewCute
Ferra Thor ruthless. 50 percent midcreen combos, tick throws, cancels, 50/50, completely safe character. Only biohazard used him.
Reason alot of people dont play ferra torr is cuz they have awful mobility and alot of their matchups are really wonky.
Also they have a hard time against alot of the top tiers.
Well see how that last part is in a weeks time though.

Also Biohazard isnt the only one who uses them.
 

God Confirm

We're all from Earthrealm. If not, cool pic brah.
Summoner Quan Chi, Cutthroat Kano, and Spectral Ermac have to be the top three most under represented variations in the current game state in my opinion. Liu Kang, Jacqui, and Quan Chi for overall most under represented though.
this is the best list in here




to add to it, I think Tempest Lao is still really good, with the best stagger game in mkx, supported by great buttons and amazing armor. And that divekick.
 

tafka Djinn

One for three off the roof
a factual statement.




to add to it, I think Tempest Lao is still really good, with the best stagger game in mkx, supported by great buttons and amazing armor. And that divekick.
Mmm, hadn't thought about Lao. I wouldn't be able to say I think he's the best stagger pressure though, this is a game with Ronin, and Piercing.
 

JTB123

>>R2 - BF4 = Unblockable.
Cutthroat's EX Buff: On hit, he burns a bar and takes 10% bleed damage while doing his combo. On block, he burns a bar and takes bleed damage until he is hit. Now add other sources of chip damage like Alien's Acid or Erron Black's Caltrops and you can see that Kano using his EX-Buff can backfire big time in those match-ups. Especially when Kano has them cornered and they got their puddles of free damage on screen. Reptiles noxious stink can also be obnoxious.
Wait a minute. You mean there is actually a downside for Kano when he goes for a safe/plus 50/50 that can take over 60% of your life and lead into another safe/plus 50/50 which if you guess wrong you're dead?

Someone call the police!