Breakthrough - Raiden Raiden balance changes

• Raiden - BK, BK is now +2 on block (up from -5) and can now be special cancelled
• Raiden - Down+FK is now -4 on block and adjusted the hit region
• Raiden - Vicinity Burst now has 2 hits of armor, hits mid, is -2 on block (down from 0), does 9 damage (up from 5), and no longer knocks down
• Raiden - Vicinity Blast now does 8 damage (up from 5) and has 10 less recovery frames
• Raiden - Electrocute & Shocker now hit mid
• Raiden - Thunder Strike & Shocker no longer has armor
• Raiden - Thunder Fly & Air Thunder Fly now have 2 hits of armor
• Raiden - Electric Fly & Thunder Fly (air & ground) now recover 15 frames faster on miss
• Raiden (Thunder God) -
• Raiden (Displacer) -
• Raiden (Master of Storms) - Directional Static Trap startup and recovery is more consistent now
• Raiden (Master of Storms) - Static Trap passive damage is now 0.5 (up from 0.2)
• Raiden (Master of Storms) - Static Trap now activates in 14 frames (down from 16)
• Raiden (Master of Storms) - Full Trap now activates in 11 frames (down from 12)

ILuvFightGames said:

It has 2 hits of armor apparently but does this go through clone? I'm confused.,

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hkriderz said:

It's absorbing the clone hit and subs b2 and going through it so it has two hits of armor.

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ILuvFightGames said:

Ah ok, so this is a guessing game now where if sub tries anything then he'll get superman'ed away but if he guesses the ex superman then sub can punish raiden right?

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hkriderz said:

Yeah. But also if sub knows raiden is going to wake up he can armor break it as well like he does punchwalk. He has to spend a bar to do it though. It's basically a convoluted guessing game.

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ILuvFightGames said:

How can he break armor??

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STB Shujinkydink said:

Buff master of storms

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hkriderz said:

F4 xxEX frost bomb with the clone up after the knockdown breaks all two hit armor like Goro's punchwalk and now probably raidens superman

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Darth-Nero said:

So it looks like super man now have two hits of armor on wakeup, RIP "all mighty" clone

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Aqueous_Echo said:

Let's not forget that they're all but confirming that armor isn't in the neutral anymore. Only wake-up and reversal.

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hkriderz said:

Lol I just imagined Goro players not being able to randomly armor punchwalk.

If it actually happens, it's a HUGE buff for grandmaster

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Aqueous_Echo said:

Thanks for the tag! Super hype that Raiden has big man armor.

This makes oki pokes against Raiden much easier to shut down because this is a mid they have to respect on wake-up now. (Ex db3 whiff issues)

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Aqueous_Echo said:

It'd be super duper hype if non launching armor in neutral is a thing (example superman) so we can get through some double projectiles a bit easier. Otherwise, I love even this small buff. Raiden doesn't need much, but what he does need he needs it bad.

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Darth-Nero said:

Yeah man, The hype is real. Am actually going to post a tech regarding Ex db3, assuming it'll remain unchanged after the patch.



This.
I wouldn't have put it better myself, Thank you for your level-headed comment(s) =)

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Aqueous_Echo said:

Always level headed. Raiden isn't as bad as people let on. He's just got a small empty space in his game just around sweep/jump distance. You can bait a LOT though if people challenge that weakness however

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