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When you play against a good Lao you're terrified to press a button. 112124 staggers can be scary. You make 1 mistake and you just got opened up for 30%+ into a hard knockdown and Lao still has potential to break armor regardless of the 2 hitting armor. I use Buzzsaw over Tempest these days and I don't even need the hat to break armor. I just 11212 to break armor and if I make the wrong call I can stagger it if I choose. In the corner he constantly plays safe and he's still got +Frames from ex hats in Tempest and Buzzsaw. He really is a smothering character
Edit: How could I forget that Buzzsaw has the B2 mix. I've literally taken whole health bars because people guess wrong lol
Sub Zero can put like 50% of the cast in the corner and play his game for free after that point.
Lao can put 100% of the cast in the corner and play his game. He's like a SFV character he has throw loops for days and just as many throw baits.
Even then if a lot of characters guess right once they're out of subs game. You can guess right once against Lao and he can just confirm on block into ex hat and you repeat the same scenario
Not that the best players can't have stupid opinions like Sonic calling Cage top 10, but cmon dude Foxy puts his money where his mouth his and his demonstrated it time after time, don't know how you can challenge that.
I'm a Cage main so you know I hate being in the corner more haha
But I get where's he's coming from, it's speaking as the whole package, Yeah if GM gets you in the corner it's Well worst than Laos with nothing Chars can do up to half the cast,... but that's the key here, Lao is not as troubling per se but he's consistent with the entire cast with Shimmy / mid / Frane traps /throw game, they're all micro reads that even if the opponent guesses right unless a hard read they are still in step 1, when with GM although he gets big reward but when a big chunk of opponents guesses right they switch it around
So it's big risk corner game where nearly half the cast can't do shit about with that leads to big rewards vs Good consistent little to no risk micro reads that works on everybody.
Just saying I see the logic, personally as a Cage player I'd prefer to be in the corner more with Lao than with GM but that's because I'm a Cage player, when I'd play Mystic I'd prefer GM over Tempest
Here are the posts involved in the Sub vs Lao corner game debate. Read them and tell me all of them are saying Sub's corner game is better and Lao's is just more consistent. Like I said, I know Laos corner game is more consistent but that doesn't justify him being more smothering than GM. You can't seem to come up with an argument for that so you keep bringing up the consistency thing when I've already acknowledged that point.Its a completely different type of corner game. Subs corner game is dependent on the opponents character and the stage. So he needs to change his stuff up to cater for this. If he gets everything going its tip top tier but with conditions that need to be met.
Lao can get his game going against most of the cast and his corner staggers can also translate onto the midscreen game as-well. You can really get in your opponents head.
Cyrax has number 1 set play in the corner once they have been hit but outside of the he is nothing special.
And maybe he didn't reply because he doesn't have anything else to say? If he actually replied that would have cleared up a lot of the confusion but he hasn't. So yeah. Though those couple of posts just confirmed all the teet-suckling assumptions I previously had. Yeah his opinion holds more weight than mine but that doesn't mean I can't question it.
And smothering doesn't mean more consistent either so you're literally picking apart your argument with your own stupidity.
Oh yeah and I don't remember hearing that legend "GOOD DRAGON" tearing up the top 8's so the irrelevancy argument doesn't exactly fly either does it