What happened was they knee jerk nerfed him after his reveal. So, yeah, he was designed to be good. They neutered him to mediocre (while letting Sonya's shit rock... yeah).
Raiden? seems they were afraid he'd be MK X Raiden but he's no where near that, hell not even MK 9 who was fast. lol He's an honest character and can give people trouble but that's not to say he can't use a buff or two at this point, not OP or anything. I mean if NRS are ok with Scorp, Geras and E.Black with all their tools, I don't think it's much for Raiden players to ask for a buff. I wouldn't say "incredibly bad" for that nothing of their team would make Evo if it were THAT bad. I think I2 had better balance than previous NRS games, and MK 9 only needed like one more patch to be honest. MK 11 has a respectable amount of players at Evo. I mean I won't say NRS games are perfect, they're not but then neither are anyone else Capcom, Namco or otherwise. I mean at least their games are complete on release lol with every mode. But let's face it all games have updates, patches etc now post release. D'vorah can use a buff as well obviously, though I have to admit I don't think she's QUITE as crap as some make her out to be, I just think she happens to be at the bottom right now. I've played a few damn good D'vorah players that made me think a bit.
He’s not an offensive character. His cancel options are there to bait buttons so you can whiff punish. When you gain the opponent’s respect, then you can pressure. He should just have minor buffs to his frames, and larger buffs for lightning strike and most importantly he needs to get his hit boxes fixed. F1 whiffing on standing opponents and going through characters needs to stop. D2 and U2 can’t hit directly above them, rendering them pretty useless in the corner. As for plus frames. If S3 gets fixed and no longer whiffs on opponents crouch blocking, it’s actually +3 and he can get his poke/throw mixup going there.
the fact that he is a designated whiff punisher is a problem. The hitbox issues will solve a lot of problems for every character in the game, but the more I play him it just feels like he has no real offense. db2 needs to be reworked to work as intended which was to be safe after string. I Feel like its meant to jail while your in the animation its called "storm cell" for a reason. the hitbox on the it needs to work like frost's spin blades which jails you on contact. (frost spin blades are highs). I'm not a Raiden main so I'm not familiar with raijins options at all. I play the first variation and against a solid opponent who knows the matchup feel like I have no safe option That can enforce Raidens Game. B1 string easily can be baited and punished. f4 gets low profiled a lot. close tele is always being scouted. (far tele cost defensive meter and really execution heavy to pull off after a string.)
The problem with this is once it happens Storm Cell becomes mandatory. This should never be the case for a variation system.
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Is f3 a single button or a string? I'll try using that more often. I just like having a string i can confirm in tbh
The stagger set up is F3,2 (ends in a knockdown. No special canceling off the 2). So you use that as a threat to stagger. Of course I always like to F3, Storm Cell to both A) Let them know I'm nuts and I'll totally do it man. Better respect! and B) see if they know how to punish Storm Cell.
How is that deign choice a problem? That is his main strength. Storm cell’s purpose is combo extension, nothing more. It is working as intended. It being -3 just gives people a temporary option to abuse on people who for some reason don’t know the MU. Raiden’s F3 is completely safe and is his best up close button. Close teleport is not to be abused and should always be mixed with far teleport.
Am I missing something?
just showing how bad F1 is
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Basically F1 has awful consistency. Its actually effected by idle movements and can miss them
Yeah, F1 kind of sucks. Raiden just isn’t that good. He has good tools but every thing he has is just not up to par compared to other characters.
Just letting ya know... if you're curious about Raijin, I posted a detailed video guide for him in a separate post.
I highly disagree with this. F1 has huge range, works well as an Anti Air, and also works well for mixing up pokes.
F1 sucks because the range of the actual hit box is not reflected on the visual image of the staff. So the staff colliding with characters does not mean the hit box is. The coupled with the high angle of the attack makes it an ok anti air but harder whiff punisher because it whiffs through bodies and missed sometimes even when people are standing.
-9 is a tight punish for most characters. However if you can mix up with fly cancels or far teleports then it becomes harder for them to guess which punish to use. Since fly cancels can be punished by fast forward advancing moves like shadow kicks, but not doing fly cancels will be punished by pokes and jabs. Raiden struggles a lot against people who understand his bad frames and poke out of all his staggers. Most people just don’t know that B12 is -9 and his best stagger is actually -6 since they don’t probably run into a lot of Raiden’s online.
It whiffs on kabal based on where he is in his breathing animation. Shit's stupid.