Everytime I visit a mu thread of a character jade is listed as a bad matchup, yet some jade mains really try hard to sell their opinion that she sucks lol
I also don‘t like the Johnny cage mu, I can‘t specifically say why but I always struggle against him as kabal
Zone the shit out of Johnny. Kabal also outfootsies him kinda hard. Damage per touch is in Johnny's favor, but by playing Kabal correctly and he shouldn't get that touch with ease. Space your b1 properly so you can shimmy - do b1 from max range. Johnny's advancing normals are slow'ish so you can effectively play sort of lame by throwing your shit on block, walking backwards and punish his f3/f4 moves. I feel the variation with the air blades travelling downwards work really well.
Abuse the shit out of that j2 also. You can also disrespect with pokes due to his fastest combo starting mid being 14 frames - so you don't risk too much challenging his frames up close (and watch out for poke canceled into NP, punish that shit with a fullcombo if he starts doing that). Just be mindful f4 has a good range. I like to zone Kabal at about midscreen distance where I can do a short dash into f4 to catch him neutral ducking - but that's if they let me. Just play it patiently and lame. Walk backwards, shimmy, do long jumpins with j2 he cant do anything about. Make him come to you - that's how Johnny wants to play but Kabal just plays Johnny much better. A lot of Kabals normals also catch jumpers a lot of the time so you kinda have to hold his staggers in the corner - cause it's easy to hitconfirm into Nomad Dash. And abuse the range on them moves, I cant stress it enough.
Oh and ex forceballs whiff on Kabal, or the second one does to be precise. I had a guy interrupt my f344 into forceballs with Fatal blow between the first and second. Johnny's d4 on hit jails into f3, be mindful of that. I've played a lot of Kabals and it's either even or in your favor, but I feel like it's even. Kabal can control the pace granted he is not super far behind in health. Johnny gets dangerous in the corner though as he has the restand but also - your invincible wakeup is punishable. And Johnnies
love to stagger f3 - blow that shit up with a d2 or a jab starter combo if he gets predictable. The move being high also makes it much easier to contest.
