It is good, i am using it all the time, only against baraka kick and kabal jump in punch i use bf4
It's kinda tough for Jax by default. I think HD has it easier with the bf2 command grab to close the gap, but generally being outfootsied by characters is his weakness. You just gotta learn spacing and whiff punish yourself. It's a shame f2 doesnt lead to much as it is his best advancing normal imo
I thought you could use B3 low as a starter
Oh yes you can. Good one, that can catch people preemptively stand blocking to avoid the f2d1.
The thing with Jax as you fight some really good players - they're not gonna just be blocking all day. A lot of players at an intermediate level do not handle staggers very well and therefore Jax can seem like he's a damn S-tier rushdown powerhouse. At the end of the day has fast mid is punishable on a stagger and f33 having a somewhat long recovery animation which incentivizes interrupts while f2 is just not a very scary move in GB. It's kinda annoying his best advancing normal does not combo into either bf2 amp nor db4 - it makes his footsies even less effective in this variation. Im getting off track here lul.
Lul I havent seen a Jax since Summit of Time
What's the point of him then? His entire point seems to be staggers with a whole bunch of crappy gimmicky very low reward high risk mixups like f2d4. If I'm going to abuse staggers with a 9f mid then why not just pick wataa man and have actually threatening staggers off of a much better 9f mid?
Honestly, I think GB is his counter-zoning variation. D&W actually goes under projectiles and you can launch from it. Plus you got the projectile absorber but it's kinda slow on recovery. It would actually be solid if he had worthwhile damage to compensate for the loss of KB's and how meter intensive this variation is. It's not a particularly scary rushdown variation due to people being able to full combo interrupt db4 ender on block. You can always use Gotcha but unless it's the corner it's not really scary, and the 1 ender is turn-ending, Flawless blockable and just not very rewarding.
That's my kustom loadout. It's quite fun.
Not just you.
it just makes sense.
Imagine if variations in this game weren't such sloppy goop that just split a character in half.
Jax got that juicy Matchup Chart Buff, now if only they nerfed Kabal too
Good. Now I will finally be willing to spend that 2 mil. coins that I have lol.
He needs it.
Just gotta kill or end a killing combo with Gotcha and then HOLD 1 on the last hit. It can be a little fucky sometimes (all of Jax's brutals seem a bit fucky aside from the HD extended string brutal) but you shouldn't have to kill with the very last hit
You dont need to hold 1. Just keep mashing 1,1,1,1,1 and brutality comes out
