Going to say this once and only once for a certain someone, If you want Raiden to be better, he needs buffs. Period. Not saying to be broken, but needs buffs. Or have fun with your low tier Thunder God. That is all.
Glad someone actually has logic here ^. Couldn't agree more.
Yes, I agree with it being useful combo extender, but just saying. I wasn't talking about that or you're misunderstanding me, I never said it was useless. I said his Superman KB and B2 are useless(and please note I'm talking about the KB not the mix ups since some of you seem to not get this) It's not unreasonable to make Raiden better, unless you enjoy struggling against a ton of characters in this game with Raiden's current lower tier status then be my guest. But don't tell me "this isn't good, that's not good" when you're not contributing to how to make him better, all you're doing is trying to lowball my ideas. I'm sure most Raiden players would agree. I'm not talking about Summon Lightning, I'm talking about Storm Cell. I'm talking about his TW, I don't use his Raijin variation. They buffed that, now they need to buff TW I mean really, his lightning strike "buff" is a joke.
New here, but have been an NRS player since MK9 and a Raiden main both games. I've been following your thoughts on Raiden and couldn't agree more. While I think capture state on lightning strike wouldn't really solve much, most of his other flaws that you've pointed out are irrefutable.
The obvious offender is the f112 string. The first hit is so limited in it's viability, but the big oversight is -13 on the 2. Typically to convert you'd go for f11 superman/ cancel/ SC/. You ought to be able to finish the string and cause a fair deal of pushback similar to Kabal's extend hook. If this string got a complete rework similar to Kollector's s443, he might be able to achieve something. But right now, you need to spend resources to keep yourself safe whenever you start pressure. Just safe. Superman cancel or distance teleport. If you have no defense bar and you start offense in TW, be prepared to eat shit.
After superman cancels your best bets are: back dash- f4/ f3/ j3/ d4. None of this leads to much if you're opponent knows the matchup.
His archetype is obviously defense in TW, so make the lightning strike significantly safer. I'm talking -10 to -14. Unsafe enough son if you do it point blank you could potentially eat a full combo, but none of this -29 from full screen garbage when Geraw gets away with murder. I've seen other posters talking about this since the game's release, and was blown away that he received zero changes to his core tool chest.
How egregious some of the oversight in this game are is a different topic, but Raiden TW right now is a character that really has no place in this game. You have characters like Kollector who have been improved sure, but f12 bola mb at max range cannot combo because there's not enough hit stun/ advantage.
I'm not going to list what I think needs to be changed besides those two items, because those requests fell on deaf ears last time, but hopefully the community for this character can make a bit more noise.
