I just read through 91 pages of tier information. There were actually some good posts and points scattered through all the arguing. But stepping away from the tier list a bit, I had a question about matchups. Shock made a really good post about Reptile's strengths against Kabal. So that got me wondering which matchups are the best against say the top 5 on the tier list.
Ignoring player skill, and you can't choose the player against his/herself. If you are having a hard time taking the human element out of the battle, assume you are playing yourself (not playing with yourself), who would you choose to fight with against the top 5 characters:
1. Kabal
2. Human Smoke
3. Kung Lao
4. Kano
5. Reptile
To help those of us new to the game, it would be helpful if you list the techniques or special moves that give fighter X the best chance against the top guys.
Here's a good example quoted from Shock:
The reason why someone like Reptile is particularly good vs Kabal is because he doesn't have to leave the ground and there is no temptation to leave the ground as much as there would be for other characters, meaning 90% of spin attempts from Kabal would have to be guesses, ie: blockably unblockable spins due to human error and not because they were counter spins, and because of this, the amount of spin usage overall is reduced drastically, but when used sparsely, they become less predictable bringing the probability of connecting a random psychic spin up. However, the amount of effort Reptile has to put forth is insane. He is complimented by the actual tactics, the wake up slides which do practically no damage and the forceballs for lock down.
Ignoring player skill, and you can't choose the player against his/herself. If you are having a hard time taking the human element out of the battle, assume you are playing yourself (not playing with yourself), who would you choose to fight with against the top 5 characters:
1. Kabal
2. Human Smoke
3. Kung Lao
4. Kano
5. Reptile
To help those of us new to the game, it would be helpful if you list the techniques or special moves that give fighter X the best chance against the top guys.
Here's a good example quoted from Shock:
The reason why someone like Reptile is particularly good vs Kabal is because he doesn't have to leave the ground and there is no temptation to leave the ground as much as there would be for other characters, meaning 90% of spin attempts from Kabal would have to be guesses, ie: blockably unblockable spins due to human error and not because they were counter spins, and because of this, the amount of spin usage overall is reduced drastically, but when used sparsely, they become less predictable bringing the probability of connecting a random psychic spin up. However, the amount of effort Reptile has to put forth is insane. He is complimented by the actual tactics, the wake up slides which do practically no damage and the forceballs for lock down.
