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Who Was/Is The Dark Horse Of MKX?

Marinjuana

Up rock incoming, ETA 5 minutes
Nobody used him at the highest level cause his gimmicks dont fly there. And he gets hard zoned out by like 3/4 of the cast lol.

I played him and destroyed with him online but when i took it to high level players you never got a chance to get going unless you got lucky.
His mix isn't all gimmicks, he just gets wrecked in neutral and zoned out. I'm not saying he could of had long term success as a solo main but he definitely could have been used in some matchups and his mix based gameplay is better in a FT3 format where there isn't that much time to adjust. With his lack of representation even top players wouldn't have the same matchup experience against him as they would with many other characters. All that makes me think he fits the Dark Horse bill, a character that no one would expect to do well and necessarily be prepared for. I think he had more of a place in the competitive game then his lack of usage would suggest.
 

Wigy

There it is...
His mix isn't all gimmicks, he just gets wrecked in neutral and zoned out. I'm not saying he could of had long term success as a solo main but he definitely could have been used in some matchups and his mix based gameplay is better in a FT3 format where there isn't that much time to adjust. With his lack of representation even top players wouldn't have the same matchup experience against him as they would with many other characters. All that makes me think he fits the Dark Horse bill, a character that no one would expect to do well and necessarily be prepared for. I think he had more of a place in the competitive game then his lack of usage would suggest.
You need to get hit with gimmicks for the actual real mix to start. Against a good player its guna be really hard.

Theres a wholeee bunch of characters who can just mash d3 and everything gets low profiled.

I really dont see him as a dark horse. Dark horses have to be secretly good.