its sad yea. It could be a better trap tool if this were the caseI just wish the ball didn't deactivate itself once it passes the opponent. I've had a few situations where an opponent has jumped over the ball to which I'd welcome him with an uppercut sending him back landing on the ball and he just goes right through it
YupReptile doesn't get much more damage for using meter tbh. He should never use meter for a combo unless he's going to finish the match.
Btw, I've forgone ending my combos with slide and just SFB or EX SFB if I have the meter. Works out sooooooooooo much better in a lot of cases.
. People tell now are not aware of this! and sadly still in need of more reptile practice as of basics.
90% ur dreaming.....cr+4 alone can interrupt like 40% of wake up attacks as over all. with the help of EX SFB it's about 70% of all the chars wake up games.
Unlike the Subs' slides, Reptile's does not cause an untechable knockdown. With either regular or EX slow ball, you can force them to react however you want.
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Baraka does suck, though. I play him and love him and even I must admit that. The problem with your strategy is that no good Reptile player is going to try forceballing you while in range of Blade Charge. They'll block your Blade Charge, hit you with a dash, get to full screen, and start zoning. If they are dumb or if momentum is on your side, I guess you can get some free hits on them, but other than that, Baraka is just a really bad character in a lot of matchups. One suggestion, and I haven't tested this out, is that if you can read their dash or slide, start doing a Chop Chop and they'll walk right into it. You have to do it ahead of time, though, or the dash will hit you during the startup. I think the timing is probably similar to Sub-Zero dashing forward then dropping an ice clone to bait a dash. The downside is that unlike ice clone, you're in for a combo if you read wrong and Chop Chop when they're not coming in.
Your stating a bias fact depending on 2 things:
Glad I'm not the only one who thinks that. He's fine meterless, he's got tools, but, to really stand out, meter is required, for like chasing people down with charged forceballs, ex elbow, etc etc.
It's a frame trap, it's just when it comes to Reptile's dash, if you input the f+4 a frame late, the dash beats it. It's possible to stuff, but very difficult, like Kano's pre-hotfix upball, or KL's spin. The only 2 moves that flat out beat the frame trap are CSZ's parry and Cage's X-Ray because both of those become active on the first frame. Kang's does not.Baraka does suck, though. I play him and love him and even I must admit that. The problem with your strategy is that no good Reptile player is going to try forceballing you while in range of Blade Charge. They'll block your Blade Charge, hit you with a dash, get to full screen, and start zoning. If they are dumb or if momentum is on your side, I guess you can get some free hits on them, but other than that, Baraka is just a really bad character in a lot of matchups. One suggestion, and I haven't tested this out, is that if you can read their dash or slide, start doing a Chop Chop and they'll walk right into it. You have to do it ahead of time, though, or the dash will hit you during the startup. I think the timing is probably similar to Sub-Zero dashing forward then dropping an ice clone to bait a dash. The downside is that unlike ice clone, you're in for a combo if you read wrong and Chop Chop when they're not coming in.
Other than that, I don't know what to tell you.
Also: so the 2,2,1+2,f+4,4 frame trap is not a frame trap after all? If Reptile's elbow dash can punish in between, Cyber Sub Zero's ice parry can stop it also. Maybe Liu Kang's parry too? Baraka seriously makes me sad. Yeah, let's make a character with terrible options from range and then make him slow for when he gets up close...
