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Injustice 2: Execution Difficulty- Rate the Characters

Barrogh

Meta saltmine
You you only have to be as accurate as your opponent, and being that he's the character you play, there's no reason you won't be
Unless there's a fitting reversal in your opponent's move list, I guess.
Also just curious. In IGAU Supes had pretty tough optimal combos, and I've heard that here they are harder than those most Supes players use. How hard those are, exactly?
 

HeroesNZ

Baconlord's Billionaire Sugar Daddy
Most characters have baby execution if you use baby combos and harder execution if you use the most optimal combos so I don't understand how you can outright say X has the easiest execution unless all their optimals are piss easy or they barely use combos like I1 Doomsday.

Superman for example, people are still using F23 F2 MB Breath which is the baby combo. The optimal is F23 B23 MB D2 B3 which isn't that hard with practice but far from the easiest link in the game.

Then he has corner optimals involving an additional D2 before his last stand 3, random additional standing 1s and 11s all over the screen and plus frame-wise he's only got at best a couple of frames to enforce while the opponent has a 3f buffer so you've gotta be on point.

Someone mentioned effort to reward ratio earlier in the thread, I think that's a much better way to compare characters than execution difficulty.
 
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Let me change the original topic a bit. Which characters are the best when it comes to effort to reward ratio.
So if I'm looking for a relatively easy to play character which are the ones that bring the best results? My guess is that Starfire is on this list. Any other nominees? Everyone's favorite pocketpick, BA?
I think this would be good for a thread on its own. I too am unfortunately not gifted with super fast reflexes, and high execution characters are a nightmare for me to get the hang of. I think it would help a lot of players to have a list of characters that are relatively easy to play but still bring in good results.
 

just_2swift

MK1 is the best MK period.
Paulo admitted on the patch stream that Ivy is the hardest character to use.

She sure has the execution package:

- Strings requiring multiple buttons per step (121213 is her main fast punisher midscreen and you need to mash it on reaction)

- Command grabs and their unnecessary use of 3 directions.

- Main launcher requiring to hold up after hitting (or on block) or you're sitting there open for a full combo.

- Strings requiring multiple directions.

- DD special moves (combined with the above for very unnatural and anti intuitive commands).

- Very tight links on some launchers (MBDrill into F3 is too unreliable).

- Trait can't be manually timed to syncronize with your moves.

B2D2,DD1,2,U,B2D2,DBF1 are a huge lot of direction buttons for what's basically her main neutral starter.
Not hard at all
 

GLoRToR

Positive Poster!
Starfire is whatever. She's not horribly difficult but the way her combo starter is basically an unsafe EX move into an empty jump there's more than one way you can get fucked trying to combo if you aren't solid. (I'm not solid.)
 

EntropicByDesign

It's all so very confusing.
I always had a HUGE amount of trouble with Flash's stuff.. I know a lot of people say he's not hard at all, etc etc, but for me, he was. I gave up on him as a matter of fact. Grodd was of course a sonofabitch. Joker was a lot harder than most characters I messed with as well. Beetle has some difficult stuff. Ivy a couple patches back was very hard for me.

I found Supes very easy, but I never dug in to the character. Batman wasn't hard, though I was terrible at some of his trait conversions, so take that for what its worth. Manta wasnt hard in general, but I was always bad at his flight cancel looping stuff. Catwoman was easy. Hellboy was pretty easy once I got the timings on his leap stuff down. etc.
 
Almost nothing in injustice 2 is high execution, back in MK v DC there were combos that were fucking impossible and it would cause you hand injuries
 
Starfire is whatever. She's not horribly difficult but the way her combo starter is basically an unsafe EX move into an empty jump there's more than one way you can get fucked trying to combo if you aren't solid. (I'm not solid.)
That's what irks me a little with this game. Why is this game so meter dependent? I miss MK9, where you could actually do combos without having to meter burn every godamn thing. The developers went overboard with the whole meter burn thing in Injustice 2. It's a miracle walking forward doesn't require meter burn. Are there even any characters in Injustice 2 that don't require you to spend 90% of your play time meter burning stuff left, right, and center?
 
That's what irks me a little with this game. Why is this game so meter dependent? I miss MK9, where you could actually do combos without having to meter burn every godamn thing. The developers went overboard with the whole meter burn thing in Injustice 2. It's a miracle walking forward doesn't require meter burn. Are there even any characters in Injustice 2 that don't require you to spend 90% of your play time meter burning stuff left, right, and center?
Batman, Darkseid, Raiden ,Brainiac,Superman, Black Canary, Harley Quinn, Swamp Thing, Enchantress : These chars have meter-less launcher strings. But the ones with b3 after launching are only Harley Quinn and Batman so far.
 

RevetLeafing

Tanya, Tanqui, and Kaprisun Specialist
A lot of y'all are misreading the thread I believe. The thread is asking what characters have the easiest combos to pull off, not the easiest to use. I know for a fact that Deadshot's combos aren't easy to pull off, same with Starfire.

Highest Execution:

Wonder Woman
Ivy
Beetle
Grodd
Joker

Lowest Execution:

Harley
Darkseid
Superman
Aquaman

And yes i'm saying it...
Flash
 

Wigy

There it is...
A lot of y'all are misreading the thread I believe. The thread is asking what characters have the easiest combos to pull off, not the easiest to use. I know for a fact that Deadshot's combos aren't easy to pull off, same with Starfire.

Highest Execution:

Wonder Woman
Ivy
Beetle
Grodd
Joker

Lowest Execution:

Harley
Darkseid
Superman
Aquaman

And yes i'm saying it...
Flash
Wonder woman?

I feel like people like to say flash is easy because a lot of people think/thought he was top tier execution when he's not. Duno how you can put him lower than all but 4 characters though..
 
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Barrogh

Meta saltmine
A lot of y'all are misreading the thread I believe. The thread is asking what characters have the easiest combos to pull off, not the easiest to use. I know for a fact that Deadshot's combos aren't easy to pull off, same with Starfire.

Highest Execution:

Wonder Woman
Ivy
Beetle
Grodd
Joker

Lowest Execution:

Harley
Darkseid
Superman
Aquaman

And yes i'm saying it...
Flash
I've been testing out Green Arrow, and for me his combos are pretty easy to pull off. Best of all is thanks to freeze arrow you don't need meter to get his combos going. The moment you get just one hit on your opponent you can cancel into freeze arrow and go crazy with combos. And it doesn't cost any meter.

And what about Supergirl? I find her combos easy to do, although you do need meter to get them going. So her combos are pretty limited until you manage to build up some meter.
 

Wigy

There it is...
I've been testing out Green Arrow, and for me his combos are pretty easy to pull off. Best of all is thanks to freeze arrow you don't need meter to get his combos going. The moment you get just one hit on your opponent you can cancel into freeze arrow and go crazy with combos. And it doesn't cost any meter.

And what about Supergirl? I find her combos easy to do, although you do need meter to get them going. So her combos are pretty limited until you manage to build up some meter.
Needing to have your ice arrow loaded is more grief than having to use a bar probably
 

Sazbak

Noob
What WoWo hard execution? what is hard???
Everything for me.
But to be more specific I often see players dropping the b3 after the mb Shield Toss in the sideswitch combo.
I find other stuff to be hard with her as well but I wanted to mention this one example because it happens to good players as well. It kinds sucks to drop that combo since you spent 1 bar and still remain in the corner, not to mention with WoWo you especially want your opponent in the corner so you can outrange and bully them with your tools.
 

rainuS

Prince of Edenia
Well i tried this combo and its not easy, but after a little bit of practice I manage to do it 10/10 on both sides.
Its a matter of timing b1 correctly, the rest is autopilot.

proof:
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