Johnny Cage Flash Parry Concept from MonkeyBizness

After Kombat's crazy showing last weekend at CEO, Johnny Cage has been back on people's radar. If you were looking to see what he's capable of for yourself, scope out this flash parry setup using his Fatal Blow cancel.



For you newer faces, a Flash Parry is when a character uses an armored move to punish somebody in the middle of a string/combo. So as you are seeing in this tweet from FGMonkeyBizness, he's using the armor on Johnny Cage's Fatal Blow to armor through the first hit of this Scorpion string, then canceling the FB to full-combo punish. There's bound to be plenty of strings you can use his Fatal Blow to punish, and it's something bound to make low-health Johnny Cage one of the most dangerous characters in the game. Check out the video down below and get to labbing!

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1145918820768522242

 

High-risk, high-reward tech. I dig it. I might have to add this to the guide. Proper credit given, of course.

 

Well. Here comes the NERF JOHNNY brigade

 

Give this man a viable crushing blow and fix his fb hit box issues and he'll be scary

 

I don't think there are such clueless mindblowingly inept people on this site to actually request nerfs for Cage at this moment.

 

I still really think they should get rid of the timer on fatal blows. One attempt per round. But would this be a big nerf to Johnny if they did this?

 

I still really think they should get rid of the timer on fatal blows. One attempt per round. But would this be a big nerf to Johnny if they did this?

It would make his fatal cancel almost entirely useless but they could always make an exception for Johnny when they're cancelled and don't whiff.

 

I still really think they should get rid of the timer on fatal blows. One attempt per round. But would this be a big nerf to Johnny if they did this?

If they really went that route, then canceling it before the move comes out should allow him to keep it. The cancel is his gimmick, so it shouldn't be completely invalidated like that.

 

If they really went that route, then canceling it before the move comes out should allow him to keep it. The cancel is his gimmick, so it shouldn't be completely invalidated like that.

That'd be a good way to do it. If he does not cancel and becomes active then it goes away as if he used it like anyone else. Cancel means it stays

 

this is pretty well known tech I assumed. Super useful for baiting wakeups. also punishing shit like Kabal/Jade air projectiles.

 

this is pretty well known tech I assumed. Super useful for baiting wakeups. also punishing shit like Kabal/Jade air projectiles.

The best utilization at best is doing it into the np krushing blow.
So it's kinda situational.

 

The best utilization at best is doing it into the np krushing blow.
So it's kinda situational.

thats nice i never thought abbout that. I really like it for flash parrying air projectiles into a punish I wouldnt have gotten tho

 

Thought this was known since april.

 

It looks like I have something to practice when I get home.