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Yup. He can also do B2, or B31, or d1/d3~storm cell. His mix his honestly pretty strong when hes in advantage lol
Then don't start risky offense if you don't have defensive bar.
Yup. He can also do B2, or B31, or d1/d3~storm cell. His mix his honestly pretty strong when hes in advantage lol
Then don't start risky offense if you don't have defensive bar.
I agree. His plus frames on hit are great. Guess that makes up for his block frames
They’ve deliberately made most 50/50 mix in this game unsafe in some way. Raiden isn’t an exception to that rule.
It is unsafe, but ending a combo with b2 means you only need to hit it one more time for around ~500+ damage or 300+ for the low so the risk/reward is still in your favor imo
I find often the threat of B2 KB is more important than the damage you get from the KB. I catch so many people panicking and the resulting collapse in game plan and the respect you get for this singular option is very powerful in Raiden’s up-close game, which revolves around respect and conditioning.
While I'm often in agreement with the "wait and see" path, I really dislike how they nerfed him. All I really want is to roll back Lightning Strike to that build, if Raiden could have just one thing.
I mean you can punish it but you have to be fast, like to the point you might have to throw out a jab to "buffer" a punish if the teleport comes out. But if he does the amplified version then that won't work, but you can throw punish it.
You can jab punish if you anticipate it. Though it is hard. Same as other teleports that only move the character to a different part of the screen.I tried that but was too early, didnt auto-correct in time and got suplexed for it
F3 is his best up close button, leads into staggers (F3, F3; F3, throw; F32; F3, B1...) and is -6. However the drawback compared with most other staggers in the game is that you’re too minus (think of Scorpion/Jacqui/Kabal...) so anyone and everyone can and should poke after blocking F3. I think D3 also jails into 243 but I’m not sure, I know it guarantees F3 so you can enforce the strike throw mixup after every successful poke like most characters. F3 is +15 on hit so it jails into a lot of stuff (notably F3, B1, throw, and 243 again). Doing fly cancels and far teleport keep strings safer and open up opportunities for Raiden to whiff punish with F11, B12 and F4. If characters do not have a full screen move that is fast then a far lightning strike after a midscreen combo ended with electric fly is a good way to check opponents and get extra chip damage.
F4 is only +5 on block though so you have to be quick. I’ve been poked out of throws all too often
You're right about being fast, I mean pretty much most moves with fast frames you have to be online at least because you never know what the lag will do lol. This one guy I couldn't punish his blocked scorp teleports, was bs. I rarely get poked out of throws but I have gotten teched out from certain people who time it well. I get poked out of certain strings which I hate, this game is literally Pokey Kombat more than anything.
What I hate is throws eating up the startup of my pokes and I can’t tech as a result. Even if I read the throw and do a d2 it eats up the startup which is quite insane.
Do you mean +5 on hit?
I know the feeling, That's so dumb, so much dumb shit in this game, when I duck and not hit block I swear throws hit me, the game is heavily poke based who's got faster, safer pokes, the wake up system sucks in the corner because the options get stuffed half the time. I can go on but I'm sure you know lol
