Best and Worst Matchups: Raiden

[RoboCop]

I'm attempting to gather good information for my "How to Defeat Any Character" thread. You're going to see this exact post in each of the character threads. If you would like to share your information, ideas, and comments please stick to the format outlined below. This will help speed up the process of rooting out the pertinent information and putting it to good use. Thanks for your support!

*The information in the example post was written off the top of my head and not meant at all to convey actual match information. It serves only as a guide to influence future posts.

Post Format (based on Kano):

Best Matchup: Kano's best matchup is probably against Quan Chi. Quan Chi's 1 wakeup attack, the Sky Drop, just isn't able to break up Kano's awesome offensive game. Kano can keep him at range with zoning tactics that have enough recovery to block and punish the Sky Drop. Quan Chi should be unable to control almost any aspect of a match with Kano.

Worst Matchup: Kano's worst matchup is definitely against Sub-Zero. Ice Clone completely nullifies Kano's Air Ball, and with no teleport Kano can have a very difficult time getting in to inflict decent damage. His only real option is to hang back and zone with Knives hoping to bait and punish Sub-Zero's slide. However, since his Knives can be crouched completely, if Sub-Zero has the damage advantage he can just run down the clock to force Kano to come to him.

 

[Raidenwins]

I'm attempting to gather good information for my "How to Defeat Any Character" thread. You're going to see this exact post in each of the character threads. If you would like to share your information, ideas, and comments please stick to the format outlined below. This will help speed up the process of rooting out the pertinent information and putting it to good use. Thanks for your support!

*The information in the example post was written off the top of my head and not meant at all to convey actual match information. It serves only as a guide to influence future posts.

Great idea, and we already do we have a thread for Raiden's match-ups called...."Raiden match-ups thread".

Post Format (based on Kano):

Best Matchup: Kano's best matchup is probably against Quan Chi. Quan Chi's 1 wakeup attack, the Sky Drop, just isn't able to break up Kano's awesome offensive game. Kano can keep him at range with zoning tactics that have enough recovery to block and punish the Sky Drop. Quan Chi should be unable to control almost any aspect of a match with Kano.

Worst Matchup: Kano's worst matchup is definitely against Sub-Zero. Ice Clone completely nullifies Kano's Air Ball, and with no teleport Kano can have a very difficult time getting in to inflict decent damage. His only real option is to hang back and zone with Knives hoping to bait and punish Sub-Zero's slide. However, since his Knives can be crouched completely, if Sub-Zero has the damage advantage he can just run down the clock to force Kano to come to him.

Great idea, and we already do have a such a thread. It is called "Raiden match-up thread". Look it up.

 

[RoboCop]

Great idea, and we already do have a such a thread. It is called "Raiden match-up thread". Look it up.

It's outdated for the most part. These "Best and Worst" matchup threads are a device I'm using to gather relevant information for another post. It is very difficult to find relevant information on most of the current matchup threads because a) they're not formatted correctly and information is all over the place, and b) most of the information only pertains to pre-patch status.

 

[Eight]

Best match-up: Everybody

Worst match-up: Start -> Quit

 

[Richmatic]

Raiden has bad match ups?

 

[RoboCop]

Raiden has bad match ups?

(as posted by OmegaK in the Best and Worst Matchups: Reptile thread)

Best match ups? For me, it's Baraka, Quan Chi, and Raiden. Raiden you say?! Teleport can be punished with dash, his strings can be interupted with dash, I think he's just allergic to dash. This is possibly because I've never played an intelligent raiden though... do they exist?

 

[Raidenwins]

It's outdated for the most part. These "Best and Worst" matchup threads are a device I'm using to gather relevant information for another post. It is very difficult to find relevant information on most of the current matchup threads because a) they're not formatted correctly and information is all over the place, and b) most of the information only pertains to pre-patch status.

A lot of the info there is post-patch. True, it is not formatted in any way but the info will be even more all over the place and harder to find if we have multiple threads for the same topic.

 

[RoboCop]

A lot of the info there is post-patch. True, it is not formatted in any way but the info will be even more all over the place and harder to find if we have multiple threads for the same topic.

You can never have too much information. If anything, bad information will get filtered out via multiple topics where the good information will keep reappearing. In any case, these posts have helped me tremendously so far, and I plan to use that information to help others. This has not been an easy task and I definitely have a long, time-consuming road ahead of me. The more cooperative the TYM community is, the faster this will get done, the higher quality it will be, and the more people will find answers to their questions.