Yeah but his launcher is still unsafe. Being able to cancel it could potentially make a string safe, but not the launcher itself. If Scorpion lets his teleport rock and he's blocked he can be full combo punished. It's not that different from Raiden being able to teleport after B12 instead of Storm Cell, or doing B12 into a canceled Electric Fly.
Oh ok gotcha, I forgot about that. Raiden's other options. It's so much Raiden can do b1, grab/ B12 grab if they not expecting it I'm so used to doing that or B12 lighting strike works sometimes.
I'm still discovering new things every day. With RoboCop, I just figured out a full-screen Mine into OCP Charge that allows for a 35% 1-bar kombo. After grinding out the Shao matchup, I realized that if you flawless-block his f34(1+3), the grab won't come out, leaving Shao -14, allowing for a full-kombo punish without spending meter on a flawless-block-u2. I'm sure that's known, but I haven't seen it mentioned on TYM, and it was new to me. Is MK11 too simplified? Absolutely. Is there still enough depth to get immense enjoyment out of the game with your friends? Totally.
Nah man, MK11 baby game. No tech. Worse game ever
I learned kollector in only 1 hour in the lab, followed by 10 win streak on ladder. Watching Destroyer inspired me to pick him up.
That's awesome. Personally I kind of like that characters in MK11 are easy to pick up, it means any time you see a character that interests you, you can get started with them without much barrier to entry.
Absolutely 100 percent agree with this, good sir. The key thing about MK11, is that mastering the high level in this game isn't really about mastering "optimal" B&B combos and strings as the "end all be all." The real fun challenge at the higher level is mastering the neutral game, whiff punishes, baiting, pokes... playing mind games and capitalizing on enemy habits. That's a key thing I feel MK11 nailed better than MKX.
No cross play between PC and PS4. Only XBox and PS4
Sweet. I'm not the biggest fan of Lightning Rod, but I've always thought that pairing it with Teleport made the most sense. Gives Raiden the extra option of teleporting in and punishing the opponent if they try to toss projectiles inside the bubble.
Yeah, using Rod with Teleport is a fun combo. I play Raiden mirrors often vs a player on PSN that uses that exact combo (Worldwideweesnaw). It's an interesting contrast vs my Jo Push and Rod combo.
Lol coincidentally, I actually have this variation already as a secondary for my Raiden matches. Lots of fun to use.
TW does well against Shao I feel. The entire point is not to let him get close enough to enforce any sort of offence, and you can win the neutral with F11 as his only other button with that sort of range is super slow. Otherwise just walk backwards and try to out-space him as much as possible. You don't necessarily need to switch to another variation (though float is nice if you want to mash against his slower buttons)
Who are you playing against where that works lol? Are you on ps4 or Xbox? If you think it’s a battle of f1 vs f2, are you just playing super casually? I ran a set with unjust. Shao Kahn does not challenge f1 with his f2. He challenges with a sweep / dash up d4 which on block creates favorable spacing for him. Shao also punishes any non Mb projectile with charge with input short cuts on. Low level joker players will also try to challenge f1 with their f2. But Joker destroys Raiden at a high level if you react to f1 with a dash in d4 and then establish pressure.
I mean no one is reacting to a 16f move. Even Sonicfox has trouble consistently reacting to Sub’s 19f F2 offline, let alone online, and that’s just to block in time. People doing D4 on prediction of you throwing out F11 exists in any MU. Whiff punishing is something else entirely and yes if you whiff F1 you’re getting punished, but at the same time it’s not like Raiden only has F1 for his neutral. He also has F4 to punish those D4s if they are mis-spaced. Raiden‘s most optimal game plan/play style is to abuse his insanely good back walk and just out space most characters as TW. For characters he cannot run away from you switch to Raijin. At least that’s how Pluralmite sees his MU spread. Right now in the current build he doesn’t really have a whole lot of bad MUs and he goes even or beats a lot of the current top tiers.