Cage's forward throw is not that bad. You can dash B3. Cage has very good dash so that distance is not that long.
12% unblockable is good when it grants you a set-up sure, but on the other hand you do chip and build meter from block strings which I prefer. I think Kitana has the best set-up from her throw, if she can zone the character she can back throw and vice-verse. No one has that good a set-up from their throw.
well that would be better than the reward you get for teching a throw now, 1% health loss.
Yeah, in VF5 eating a throw not only does a good chunk more damage than MK9, but you can't base your tech on the direction all the time. Some throws STILL leave you in a good position, regardless of the break direction.
Exactly, there's every little in the way of mind games involved with throws in MK, and teching while blocking would render them obsolete. It's not like fighting Wolf and eating a Burning Hammer because you guessed wrong.
12% chip damage magically came about because you just conjured it out of nowhere.
Lol. Any game that doesn't have any type throw tech is a broken game.
The throws are pretty much pointless when you can auto-crouch-tech most of the time. I didn't say they were completely pointless, just not as useful as they should be. The threat of a throw is more dangerous than the throw itself. Unless you're speaking online play, which throws are gdlk online, lol. The point is throws in SF4 aren't really about what they're supposed to be about because it's so easy to tech. Where as in MK9 it's really hard to tech a throw because there's different buttons for the forward and backwards throw tech and no indication other than position on which throw the opponent is using. In comparison I like MK9's throw system better because throws are actually useful for what they're supposed to be useful for.
