You essentially have this with Outtake. Harping on whiffing with this variation is really disingenuous and of course you will have to adjust your gameplan when you fight different characters. That’s a fighting game. And I’m not saying he doesn’t have matchups that aren’t in his favor but everyone does. The fact is that Johnny is super viable now. Take it or leave it.
As a bonus, I present you with Sonic’s Outtake Johnny fighting Scar’s Sonya.
Before coming here sounding off like a pro know it all with arguments at least check them out to be true:
Forceballs still whiff on females just the same when cancelled from his most used strings AND ON DIFFERENT ranges than on males.
It's still 12 matchups of character not working the same.
If I have to adjust the gameplan, I would like to adjust HOW i use my moves, not IF i use my moves.
And nice try with that video. Most of it is Scar testing out the third variation drone call and getting punished for it.
Literally 90% of Sonic's openings were from drone calls or drone cancels.
I follow Scar very closely as a pro player because he's one of my favorites and it's clear when he tests stuff out vs when he plays to win in tournament.
Please show me examples of videos of actual pro gameplay where Cage wins majors and destroys the MAIN character/variation of a pro opponent in tournament.
As I said before, can't wait for the next major.
P.s. Cage was always viable. You can, and I did, and a lot of Cage mains did, beat people just with d4 f3/throw, d4 f344.
Hell, people made it to demigod with this character. Nobody said he wasn't viable.
I've beat Cassies, Sonyas, Frosts, with 10 throws and one combo.
Btw. They have NOT FIXED his normals whiffing on crouch block on females. On ALL variations.
Standing 1 still whiffs on crouch block.
Hey look, I play Cage. An they picked Cassie. Let me do f3, then try 124, or 12autoshimmy. Or try 1 staggers. Can I do it? NO!
WHY? Because nobody gave a fuck to fix the hitboxes. They see me doing it while blocking (where they should have been hit) and just mash d2 yolo and win.
So what can I do? throw,throw,throw, throw, throw, like a broken record.
Sure, it works, but why the hell do I want to do that?
Who the hell enjoys playing with d4 and throw? I would like to use ALL my character please. What about Shock Jock? What, I should just not use that fuck it, right?
That was the point all this time. Not if I win or lose, or the viability. The fact that I want to use Cage, not d4throwman in 12 matchups.
Hitboxes randomly not working IS A BUG NOT A FEATURE.
Hell, they even admitted it themselves when they fixed Kang's whiffing issues against Cage.
You do realize how hypocritical that is?
