No. Not regularly. But I have played them all: KT Smith, Ribbz, xSmokex, Wafflez, etc. I can win. But beating the best of the best is difficult. I am learning another character for the Smoke match up.
While Kenshi can reflect gloves and fingers, he cannot reflect spikes, which ruin his fundamental zoning games. Spikes are too fast for the overhead slashes. They also crouch under the telefury and punish whiffed charges on reaction. If the Kenshi player knows anything about the match up, he will rush you down. You should know that b+2 is an overhead and 0 on block.
Every character fucks up Freddy up close. Freddy has a huge advantage at a distance, though. Spikes crouch under daggers, teleport, and up slash. She does not get in easily.
even, with a slight favor going to freddy. My matches with top kenshi players like pig and Pokchop lead me to believe this. In the Freddy video thread there is some tourney matches of me vs kenshi.
I would add to this reflect is nothing, if you time a glove toss after he reflects (i use the silly noise it makes) the first glove he reflected disappears and he eats the second one, or he reflects again. This can go on forever until somebody mistimes it. Kenshi has to get close to do anything to you. (I fought @michaleangelo s kenshi ALOT lol) well by close i mean spirit charge range lol.
Dash reflect removes this threat
reflect is so underused i was wondering why you were talking about nightwolf
Remember that I was one of the first players who claimed Freddy might not lose this match up. But when Mileena gets close, it is difficult to get away with NMS and teleport because of d+4, roll, and telekick. I took so many ass beatings before I started winning this match.
You can still throw meaty Freddy fingers on Kenshi's wake up. If he tries to reflect or absorb, far spike is guaranteed.
The biggest problem versus Raiden is that Freddy cannot interrupt b+3,1,2 like many characters can. If he could, the match up would be even at least. In general, Raiden is an inferior Smoke versus Freddy, with inferior footsies, mix ups, and damage. So if Freddy loses 7:3 to Smoke, he loses 6:4 to Raiden.
You have to know when you can toss gloves and when not. In other words, you have to learn your ranges. In general, tossing gloves two sweeps away gets you killed quickly. On the other hand, if the Cyrax payer is spamming nets predictably, I definitely take the risk and jump forward. Freddy's damage after a jumping punch is very good. Also, do not be afraid to turtle Cyrax if you have the life lead and the clock is running out. Sometimes the best thing to do is nothing.
