MrInsaynne
PG Coach Steve
Thanks man. Still really sad about that. Owners were doing some really shady stuff i found out but we gotta keep moving forward.
Like Quan Chi? Quan Chi's can only be aimed downward, neutral jump and Air Kano Ball with punish it.
More Pyromancer. Also, I still love that I'm forced to guess after I knock her down though.
Myself and Youphemism have been saying this stuff from the beginning.
Footsies like Guile
Well, here's hoping for a small damage buff. Or no health loss on power up /kappaYeah I'm not sure why there's doom and gloom. I may disagree with Mr. Coach that he's top tier, but he's solid and will probably be able to compete if you put the time and effort in.
Big thing to me is that his fireball functions like an SF fireball in a game that is essentially Tekken. They can jump over it still sure, but the odds of you being able to backdash or just plain block before you get hit is pretty high in your favor, and they are fast enough to where they are just straight not reactable at mid range. Like even with Scorpion, are they really just gonna bonkers teleport at mid range on the off chance they read a fireball? No, definitely no, positively no, decidedly no. They are low damage, but they serve as one of your main pokes and that is where it's great. I've been counterpoking the god tier d4's with knife, and they pretty much just have to take it; can't jump out, can't poke back, pretty much just have to guess on armor. And when you've got them holding down just to block a knife, well then you can start your little meta of b1, b13, run up d4, etc. like Mr. Coach outlined. He has good armored moves and one that leads to a full combo in Kano Ball and Laser blast, so I'd take the risk to try and blow up someone getting a little too antsy.
The one thing I can agree about is his damage, which may be a little less than average, but once you've got them doing crazy stuff to avoid the knives like guessing jumps at mid range and attempting an armored move half screen, those hits add up. Now if only his jump was better
I wouldn't mind losing health for the buff if it didn't take so much damn health away. Or go away when you're hit. Because of this I never even use the 1 bar power up unless it's the Final Round. If you get them in the corner and they guess wrong while buffed, they're usually dead though.
No way is he a bottom ten variation in the game, he can handle himself well against the majority of the cast. The only characters that give him real trouble are teleport characters like Scorpion and Ermac who can ALSO put you into a fucking vortex off of them ( fuck those matchups by the way -_________- ) and characters with counterzoning tools. Otherwise he goes at least even against most pure rushdown variations, and considering the amount of rushdown variations in the game I'd say he's fine. Being mid tier isn't a bad thing in this game considering everyone has the tools, it's just that other characters have insane 50/50s or 33/33/33s that make them much better. Remove the 50/50s and you'll see Kano becomes better. He's well balanced, that's the main thing
Not really, he gets 40% 1 bar at least in the corner and mid 30s midscreen. That's normal.
Your analysis is correct.
So you're saying cutthroat might be more viable?
He just needs a bigger hitbox on b1 in cutthroat, safe choke and no whiffing MB command throws during opponents strings in commando, and.......accurate frame data.
B23,1+3 and f3,1+3, maybe some others but those stick out the most. It would also be nice if the side notes were throughout the frame data. What I mean is on the jump attacks you see how it states njp is mid on the way up, well it should state stuff like MB buff has armor or how much damage over time it takes off of him when activating normal buff in cutthroat
Yeah I agree cyber Kano is definitely not a bottom ten variation. Actually what I meant - and this may just be my own odd way of ranking characters - is if you take the best variation of every character and rank them Kano is probably 16th to 21st, which would make him bottom ten in a 26 character game (excluding Tanya for now bc idk anything about her). I'd put the following all above him (no particular order): D'Vorah, Raiden, Erron, Scorpion, Sub, Kung Jin, Kung Lao, Sonya, Cassie, Jax, Kenshi, Cage, Quan, maybe Shinnok, maybe Ermac, and maybe Ferra Torr. Hence 16th or lower.No way is he a bottom ten variation in the game, he can handle himself well against the majority of the cast. The only characters that give him real trouble are teleport characters like Scorpion and Ermac who can ALSO put you into a fucking vortex off of them ( fuck those matchups by the way -_________- ) and characters with counterzoning tools. Otherwise he goes at least even against most pure rushdown variations, and considering the amount of rushdown variations in the game I'd say he's fine. Being mid tier isn't a bad thing in this game considering everyone has the tools, it's just that other characters have insane 50/50s or 33/33/33s that make them much better. Remove the 50/50s and you'll see Kano becomes better. He's well balanced, that's the main thing
Not really, he gets 40% 1 bar at least in the corner and mid 30s midscreen. That's normal.
Still a bit of an annoyance to win with Cybernetic. The opponent can block low all day until he sees a njp. He has no mixup potential, so opening people up is an issue. He could use an overhead, but not one that can get a full combo off. Make it a 2-3 hitting string that isn't special cancelable. I agree with the notion of not needing a damage buff. His damage is fine. If any move(s) needs to be buffed it's up ball and kano ball. I do not like the fact these two moves can be stopped by anything. It loses to grabs, specials, strings, pokes, sneezing, breathing, and even just getting glared at stops it. It feels like its hurtbox exceeds its hitbox by a decent margin. It's his only move to get the hell out of pressure minus backdash. And Kano seems to tremble a bit under pressure, so I think that would help him against such a coin toss meta. I mean, one can't fuzzy guard any moves under 20 frames, so I can see why people think scorpian is a bad mu, but he really isn't. Scorpian just happens to be really good. Since fuzzy guarding doesn't exist he can take advantage of that, have a coin toss playstyle, and remain safe if ones guesses right against his 50/50 mixup. He takes the game and molds it in his favor.
Next to? Son, I'm wearing them.
Lets see the matchups then against these 16 variations, I'll put if (at least I think) Kano Wins, Loses or goes Even:
Well you're describing him like a rushdown character which is not how he should be played. As for "no mixup potential" that's incorrect, he does have "mixups" they're just not the traditional overhead/low ones. You can open people up with throws you know, I think that's something a lot of people don't get.