I agree. The teleport is evasive like Mileenas ballroll, but if your opponent times his meaty you will lose a bar and get full combo punished.
Flame Aura is broken. This and Hellfire's high damage with true 50/50 is the reason I'm preferring Hellfire. Im still getting this response of "Ninjitsu is the best whiff punisher" online. What do you guys think? People think he's safe too, but idk, you are forfeiting your turn unless you space into backdashing range. Sometimes when I talk to people about this character I still feel like there's a "the grass is greener" talk.
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Also, Hellfire's neutral is fine. Bully with down 4 fireball cancels. You'll stop people from disrespecting your lack of mid real quick. And when they try to poke you do have a safe move with forward 3 into ex spear, which starts a combo.
Scorpion mains still aren't getting out of the top 8. He has so many good tools, but it still seems like he's lacking too much to actually take someone to the win. I watched a lot of cups recently and the glaring obvious still seems to be there with his certain variations. Strong? Yes, but also visibly weak compared to other top 8 characters. He has a lot of double edged swords in his tools. If any character is going to get there though, it would be Hellfire. But I look at someone like Mystic Ermac, who has basically Ninjitsu and Hellfire tools in the neutral control and the counter zoning, and clearly there's no other reason to choose Scorpion if you want to make it to the top when Ermac is in the game, aside from a basically "safe" 50/50 which most pro Hellfire players don't even focus on in the first place.
I dropped Jason and I'm about to change my little tiny name thing under my profile pic. I feel like this character might suit me pretty nicely
