How? Ex low chakram hits once now on block (no gap) and is safe (-5) on block. You can still stagger up kick and drop, just quickly doing it for shits and gigs don't reward you anything and is punishable.. F2 normalized which is expected but is now -7, max range will hardly be punished by nonsliders.
naw he is still fine in my opinion
a couple of those nerfs from -7 down to -24 are pretty damn significant tho
Delay it. No more ex launchers so they won't get full combo off of armoring the drop.
yeah maybe I'll hold out hope, we'll see how it plays out. There is obviously no way to judge a single character in isolation here, it is all relative to the way the whole game has shifted.
obviously not necessary
With good pushback on block too, i was wondering just how good he is going to be
Once everyone figures it out the mixup is over. Upkick/elbow drop is now just an ender imo. Every time I tried to use it to get around zoning I was blocked and punished(I could just be rusty). I don't know but it looks like they made KJ a matchup character. He can still get the job done but every variation is matchup dependent. Shaolin, Bojutsu, Ancestral all seem brand new.
i cant find a way to connect properly shaolin drop kick in a full punish bnb...
Thats what i figured out , and now i play the three variations, its fun, but it sucks competitively
You have to run farther and drop asap, air to air combos can only be ended in drop if you dont use a divekick to link otherwise it wont connect. It is very tight using ji3 after ex chakram, seems as if the dive kick has to be used on a grounded opponent for drop to connect consistently.
it all depends on when you decide to drop, if you are dropping at the same time everytime they will get the timing down on when to backdash. If they miss time their backdash then the drop will catch them. You dont have to fully delay it everytime to be safe. Also if they backdash on the first available frame (which they will be doing if they are mashing it os style) you just time your drop to hit after their invincibility frames are up, everyones backdash is different so the timing will be different on when you need to drop. NOTE: if a kano player is backdashing you then do an empty upkick, i literally cant hit kano out of his godlike backdash.
I noticed last night that my drop was whiffing on Kitana.
