Not nessciarliy. Against zoning subzero, ex flying kick destroys projectile blast and puts you in his face which is whre u wanna be. If he's hiding be hind ice clone the same rules apply. It eats the clone and the ice ball. But patience is a big part of this match up.
Use it when you know that your opponent is mindlessly spamming block strings on you, or if you predict a jump-in attack. It's alright as a wake-up option, but don't always use it to wake-up, due to the fact that it won't counter low hits. Also, if you do the parry like 2-3 frames before the attack hits you, sometimes the parry doesn't register, and the attack still lands. Just watch out for that.
The problem with parry is that you can be hit out of the startup frames. Seems kind of weird that a move that only works when you're hit can be stopped by getting hit, but there you go. This limits where you can use it; if you use parry and they throw out an attack at the same time, they win. The only time I really use it is as a wake up move, since the invincibility on wake up negates the issue of being hit out of the startup frames. Even then I would only use it if I noticed my opponent is always trying to pressure me on wakeup using a string that hits high or with a cross over jump.
They recover faster than normal fireballs. This lets you perform several of them in a row rapid fire. There's probably reasons to use a grounded high fireball but I can't think of one. Normally I would do 2-4 instant air fireballs and then throw in a low fireball just to make sure my opponent is paying attention; I don't use the grounded high fireball much. It's okay if not all of them are low enough to the ground to hit a standing opponent. The main point is just to build meter and control space anyways, you don't need to actually hit someone to do that.
Thanx man...that makes sense...it still saddens me that there isnt actually any combo resets while the opponent is caught in one of my mid air juggles...BAH -_-**
Thanks. I have a problem getting in on Ermac. Even though Dragon kick has armor, I don't like to waste meter. Kung Lao ..I just don't know. That Punch Kick or Kick Punch Hat gets me all the time.
So the trick to beating Ermac is to predict his moves?
You can also put the wake-up attack option on. Knock the AI down and time it with EX Parry. I like to use Scorpion, because sometimes he'll do his teleport.
for overheads, and the usual low poke combo, and he'll be flustered. Just don't be too offense-oriented, because if you do get hit, it's usually 40-45% of your health gone.Pretty much m afraid. N always try to maintain the fight at a mid to short range one n youll be fine, so that you can bait his tele push or tele lift. Given the kind of really good tools that ermac has, im sure people will pretty soon run out of patience and make a mistake rather than wait it out in a "test your patience" kind of match.
It doesn't quite have the same properties of dragon stance 1. EX parry knocks the opponent up slightly higher than dragon stance 1. It's not a huge difference, but if you want to practice EX parry you should use EX parry, in my opinion.
on the second controller. Solo's idea is probably a lot simpler, though.
