Yes, and some of them are covered by this variaton as well. Only while writing my previous post did I notice the fact that db4 MB covers some gaps, this gives us more offensive options even with the horrible combo potential.
I think we've all complained honestly about something regarding Raiden lol, but yeah even though it's old I did discover the teleport cancel tech which I definitely use. I don't always see people doing it in TW but it's a great tactic to confuse people especially if you can master doing the one cancel then cancelling the second port with his away teleport. That takes some practice, but it's great if you have the life lead especially and they have to chase you down lol. His rare skin is out right now btw.
I mean, if you can get them with a combo it means they probably don’t have breakaway anyway so you can worry about less wake-up options. If they do have meter then you can read they will wake up and just bait it out and continue your pressure. It’s meter intensive sure but it’s not like Raiden doesn’t have a safe 11f mid that you can stagger with... What I don’t really understand is when you say the bolt fires does it hit them? If it does then it’s win-win for us. Either they sit and take the mix-up/pressure or they try to wake up and waste resources and get hit by the bolt anyway.
All of this is incorrect.
It "hits", 'cause the bolt hits exactly during her invincibility frames.
Ah then it’ll just be another read we make. If they wake up we lose the setup but we can still block in time and pressure in their negative frames. Not too bad I feel. Though I need to play more to find out
I feel your pain lol. Also, not sure about anyone else but you grind the tot for those last couple of skins and yet they damn game keeps giving me augments and not skins. Random my ass lol. It's like the game knows I want the skins and is like "nope, getting augments haha" I think NRS programmed the game to troll.
100%
Worst Char in the game bruuh
Just checking lol. It sucks
Funny thing is that it's probably a downgrade because by that time the cloud will not stand anywhere relevant unless you switch sides successfully every damn time. And you can't call a new one because the old one is still there.
All I ever put on are coin augments or soul augments. I never bother with changing the properties of my moves. Especially since the AI never punishes storm cell
Exactly. His teleport is what makes Raiden, Raiden. Notice NRS wouldn't dare take away Scorpion's teleport, but Raiden? He's ok to dick over apparently. lol
While Raijin's safety is nice, I agree that I feel more comfortable with Thunder Wave's mobility in most matchups. I'd argue TW has slighty better zoning too, but I digress.
I don't even use the teleports with the cancels, I mean they can work but since the timing is crucial I just use them to confound people or to make them chase me down or to counter zone. One tactic I love doing is if it's close and I need some chip, I'll teleport far and zap them with lightning attacks. lol This is one thing Raiden excels at.
Lol who knows. Knowing NRS, if they did a 4th variation Raiden would prob have the cloud move and take away his teleport again (Semi serious, semi joking)
I would think they’d probably balance out the 3rd variations with another patch first. Similar to how they balanced out the entire roster and made sure all the variations were at least useable before they introduced 3rd variations.