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Counterpoke with armoured DB2 at all times.
#Yung_Hokage #NeverForget #GLTop5
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#Yung_Hokage #NeverForget #GLTop5
Even top 10 is questionable due to the amount of characters who are on the same level of balance as him.
I think he has 5 really hard matchups (Brainiac, Robin, Cheetah, Manta, Hellboy) 5 bad ones (Harley, Crow, Catwoman, Firestorm, Bane) and 3 that I think are possibly bad as well (Flash, Canary, Beetle). He possibly has 13 bad matchups imo, there are over 10 characters with less bad matchups than that, but the reason I put have him as top 10 is bc he is the best anti zoner in the game, so if you have an atom on deck people will think twice about counterpicking you with a zoner. He is the best utility character in the game imo, but far from being top 5.
Beetle's bad for sure. One of his worst by far. He's a strong counter zoner but he also gets outfootsied by most of the cast and beaten by a ton of characters who have above average air mobility or buttons. Anti-airing some characters as Atom is borderline impossible. I struggle to anti-air Harley in training where I even know it's coming. Not to mention if you're a character that prevents him from building meter efficiently it hurts him really bad since it reduces his already low damage and basically omits any of his setups.
In the patch notes, nothing got changed for Raiden. Some people claim his walk speed got buffed and the pushback on F3 was decreased, but I haven't personally checked whether this is true.
Harley is a bad MU? I rarely ever play the MU so I feel very lost fighting Atom as Harley. Any tips?
Characters that can expose his gaps push GL’s shit in. Whatch this set with Fern and Semiij....
I feel like it is. Atom can't zone her out bc her gunshots are very very good to contest his options. Usually characters with air projectiles do a very good job at punishing atom's stomp and harley is no different, which makes him lose both the fullscreen game and the mid range game. Also she has no reason to go in on him and one of atom's problems is when he has to chase people down and make comebacks, which he has at all times in this matchups. From jump range he has no options, he can't anti air or air to air outside of a read, so having to respect it every time she get's closer opens a lot of options up for harley like trait, straight gunshot raw tantrum (as atom is probably walking back)...
I don’t think I was playing the full screen zoning game right and the atom I was playing was pretty random, I’ll have to try j2 vs trait next time I’m against one. Raw tantrum caught him backdashing pretty frequently though, I just hate throwing it out that often in the neutral.
It's not f3 was untouched. Walk speed perhaps. But what we all want is cyborg cancel combos and a better D2.
I'm 100 percent certain his forward walkspeed was increased. His shocker now bounces higher in trait allowing for an easier b3. The pushback on f3 is the same from what I can tell.
As a 20 year old from England, I remember this like it was yesterday
Maybe if they did that while he was in trait along with changing his current trait normal strings to be usable.
Nah, he would be just like Grundy. The grab is slow enough to jump out of/backdash/mbb3. There would only be one instance where he could do the grab (after you see 2 2, which when its cancelled is 0).
Johnny has no mixups
Johnny has mixups, he doesn't have 50/50s
Dude what. I keep seeing these seriously reductive comparisons made between characters. I mained cage in mk9 and mkx and grodd is my most used in injustice, trust me there's a plethora of differences most notably being from different games
I see what you mean and on paper it's fine I would just sort out the other shitty parts for his character design before just stacking on a new scary tool. Like his b1 has gotta be made quicker and link midscreen, his trait normals are entirely pointless also you legit just activate trait mid combo so u can get the vortex/damage
This is a really nice and spicy take