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What do you think is the best variation to use?


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So when you say broken, you mean something that isnt broken. Broken has a definition in the FGC and nobody in MKX (not even Jason) fits that bill. You can say reptile doesn't have strong offense compared to some of the other offense in the game. He doesn't have any real cheap dirt imo.
I'm not the best Reptile but Reptile clearly has great offence and has some cheap stuff. People just don't take time to get Nimble down. This video I made shows how dangerous he can be. There's clips that are from the pre patch and newer stuff as well. Hope it's worth a look.
 
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Israel

Noob
Motherf*#% Nimble.

Show gameplay from a real mans variation. Thats right u cant...cuz no one has the balls to play what needs to be played and do whats needs to's be done's....
 

Israel

Noob
None huh.. i know.

Looks like i just won some $$ , from a few ppl on here. Yea, its good to place bets years in advance. Yall better hope i dont find those old posts
 

Roy Arkon

I will leave my seal on you!
None huh.. i know.

Looks like i just won some $$ , from a few ppl on here. Yea, its good to place bets years in advance. Yall better hope i dont find those old posts
SNK Happy Pow won 2 majors last year, both Demolition Derby 3 and AFK XL, using mainly Nimble Reptile and also Ancestral Kung Jin here and there. Sorry bro, but I'm afraid you haven't won anything.
 
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Israel

Noob
What do you mean?
It was easy for me to foresee everything that was going to happen in this game, dealing with this character right off the back. Which is why it was easy for me to make moves and bets when i did them. (aka the Itachi method)

But i dont play injustice so..this will probably be my last time to TYM. Yall can handle things from here
 

Roy Arkon

I will leave my seal on you!
It was easy for me to foresee everything that was going to happen in this game, dealing with this character right off the back. Which is why it was easy for me to make moves and bets when i did them. (aka the Itachi method)

But i dont play injustice so..this will probably be my last time to TYM. Yall can handle things from here
No, it wasn't easy for you. The only thing easy for you, was to come to conclusions out of anger. I know what you said about Reptile since the beginning, and the fact that you didn't know that HappyPow won 2 majors with Reptile, both before and after the final patch, just shows me that you're more focusing on downplay because you didn't got the specific things you wanted, then to actually check stuff not just in the game, but outside of it as well.

I played Noxious Reptile since the get go, and if there is any reason why I didn't succeeded at times it's because of my lack of experience, not the character or the Variation. Now I'm more experienced and more aware of what I need to do in future games, but even with all of that I can tell that Reptile was always a great character in MKX, and if you pick either Noxious or Nimble, you can get some fantastic results.

So no, you haven't foresee anything.
 

Roy Arkon

I will leave my seal on you!
People started downplaying day -1, downplayed from day 0 to today... even when the game is dead. Crying doesn't change anything. I had lots of fun with Reptile in mkx. It was the right choice to main him. He isn't and wasn't weak ever.
I'm sure more then enough people will keep playing the game after IJ2 comes out, I will do it every time I get the chance. And yes, I will do it with Noxious Reptile, all the way!

Regardless of that, yes, the downplaying and the crying was ridiculous from the get go. Reptile was always a great character in MKX.
 

Wam-Zlay

Reptile / Noob
I'm sure more then enough people will keep playing the game after IJ2 comes out, I will do it every time I get the chance. And yes, I will do it with Noxious Reptile, all the way!

Regardless of that, yes, the downplaying and the crying was ridiculous from the get go. Reptile was always a great character in MKX.
Well yea i also sometimes play the game. There are still lots of people online. For me a game dies when it doesn't get support anymore (most important for me are patches which keep games interesting).

Mk9 was different it almost had no patches and i still played it around 3 years, but probably because it was my first fighting game. First i missed the mk9 reptile ;(

And yea i also switch to noxious if it's getting serious. I played all variations tho.
 

Roy Arkon

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Well yea i also sometimes play the game. There are still lots of people online. For me a game dies when it doesn't get support anymore (most important for me are patches which keep games interesting).

Mk9 was different it almost had no patches and i still played it around 3 years, but probably because it was my first fighting game. First i missed the mk9 reptile ;(

And yea i also switch to noxious if it's getting serious. I played all variations tho.
You're right about that patches can only help in keeping the game alive, but it's also the players, not just the devs and the publishers. Just giving my 2 cents here.
 

Israel

Noob
Uh.....yea, you got it.

But anyway, only thing i wished was that reptile had a good role in the story. In mk9..he was the first fight, and another time on the roof top. In MKX i believe, he was just a body to use to get beat up as well. Kind of like being a bad guy in an anime filler, Lol.

I just always thought, If he was the last of his kind..he should be way more of a threat Atleast in the story. Since he isnt, it makes me believe that hes unimportant, and brings doubt that he'll make the next game.
 
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Roy Arkon

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Uh.....yea, you got it.

But anyway, only thing i wished was that reptile had a good role in the story. In mk9..he was the first fight, and another time on the roof top. In MKX i believe, he was just a body to use to get beat up as well. Kind of like being a bad guy in an anime filler, Lol.

I just always thought, If he was the last of his kind..he should be way more of a threat Atleast in the story. Since he isnt, it makes he believe that hes unimportant, and brings doubt that he'll make the next game.
Actually Reptile got a much better treat in the MKX story, he wasn't just another pawn of Shao Kahn, as Kotal Kahn not only treated him with respect, but he also saw him as a friend. And while in MK9 Reptile had like 4 fights, in the MKX story he had just 2. In fact every character had only one or two fights against them.

If Kotal sees him as friend, that's just as important as being a threat, and it's not like Reptile wasn't a threat at all, including in MK9.

And Reptile is one of the major characters in the franchise, he was the very first secret character in the in fighting game history, and he was almost in every game except for MKD and MK Vs. DC. And if you wanna talk about the roles of the story for an indication, last time I've checked, the story was mainly about the Cage family, yet we all know who are the 2 poster boys of MK.

I'm extremely positive that Reptile will make it to MK11. In fact, both Johnny Cage, Sonya and Mileena all have a lower chance then him to make the cut.
 

Israel

Noob
You can SAY hes important, yet i still havent seen why in the story. Hes just used as a beat up stick to make u fight , only to get to get the real battle lol. You hear about scorpions clan vs subzero's clan beef all the time (who are ninjas, btw).. when was there a section dedicated to reptile (a ninja) and the lost of his clan?

Should i even go this far as to citing this fight? Lol
 

Roy Arkon

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Heres a better question...
When has he won a fight in the story?
A lot of other characters haven't won a match in the story mode of either MK9 or MKX, or maybe just won one or two. How many matches Mileena (who was the empress of Outworld at one point), Ermac, Baraka, Rain (a half god and the brother of Taven and Deagon), Sektor (who was the leader of the Lin Kuei at one point) and others have won in the story? Also, Goro and Kintaro, the 2 most powerful Shokans, they lost in a handicap match to Cyber Sub-Zero in MK9. You can't just take the core of the story, especially that not every story is the same canon. For example, the first MK movie is a different canon then the one of the games, just like the Marvel and DC universe have various canons and versions of the stories of their characters, and as such, the stories of all the characters are different then their game counter parts.

And if you wanna compare Reptile to Scorpion and Sub-Zero just because of the whole Shirai Ryu Vs. Lin Kuei thing, Reptile DOES HAVE a legit big section for his race (not clan) of the Saurians/Zatterans, as he still tries to do what he can do resurrect his race. I mean, how many times we have heard of a clan/army/race/gang for any of the other ninjas besides Scorpion and Sub-Zero? Maybe the Black Dragon because Tremor is from there, but we all know that's Kano's part. And yes, Noob Saibot was the original Sub-Zero, but he no longer cares about the Lin Kuei since he became Noob Saibot, in both timelines (MK:SF to MKA and MK9-MKX). Or how about Sektor's Tekunin clan? How much weight that clan got in the story of either timeline or even canon? And Ermac? Yes his body is made of the souls of dead people yet Ermac actually LIKES that he's that way, as we can see in one of his intros in MKX. So where is the weight?

And you know why Reptile's race have a much bigger section then any group for the other ninjas? That's because that Reptile, since he's important outside of the story thanks for being the first ever secret fighter, has appeared in more MK games then almost any other Male, Female or Cyborg Ninja, so both he and his race can get that very same big section.

Aside from Scorpion, Sub-Zero and Kitana, there is no more important Ninja in MK then Reptile, and that says a lot, considering how many ninjas are in the MK universe.

Reptile can easily make it to MK11, and he will still be important as he always was. I think you're just too jealous of other characters others when Reptile actually got more then most other MK characters, both Ninjas and Non-Ninjas.
 

Israel

Noob
So, bascially ur saying hes important because he was created. Ok.

And why art thou troubled by me?
Just continue to be an optimistic gamer, all the winners are. And let us realist gamers continue to run things from the shadows.
Have fun with injustice
 

dribirut

BLAK FELOW
Reptile launch was very bad. Patches made him steadily better. I'd say he ended up on the tier list exactly where he left off in mk9. Right outside of top 10
 

Wam-Zlay

Reptile / Noob
Just continue to be an optimistic gamer, all the winners are. And let us realist gamers continue to run things from the shadows.
you mean pessimistic gamer ;).

Reptile launch was very bad. Patches made him steadily better. I'd say he ended up on the tier list exactly where he left off in mk9. Right outside of top 10
yea i´d confirm that. He had some problems in the beginning on day 1, but he got adjusted pretty quickly. I even thought to switch characters in the beginning. Always went back to him though :)
 

Roy Arkon

I will leave my seal on you!
So, bascially ur saying hes important because he was created. Ok.

And why art thou troubled by me?
Just continue to be an optimistic gamer, all the winners are. And let us realist gamers continue to run things from the shadows.
Have fun with injustice
Let me get this straight, if I'm an optimistic person just like all the winners are, does that mean that you, a supposedly realistic gamer, are a loser? I mean, that's basically what you're saying.

Regardless, I didn't mean that Reptile is important because of his creation, but because of HOW he was created, as well as how much of weight his story does carry in the lore of MK compared to other most other characters, along with his number of appearances in games. He's in a great spot in the series, that's very realistic.

Reptile launch was very bad. Patches made him steadily better. I'd say he ended up on the tier list exactly where he left off in mk9. Right outside of top 10
Like I said, Reptile was always a good character in the game. Sure, he got better since then, but he was still a good character even then.