For me, I think its just trying to still learn the matchups and how to play against certain characters. I just need to lab more, the game just came out, after all.
Word man. I've taken other characters into practice mode to see what they can do but haven't examined anything in depth besides Erron's dropkick lol. Been doin alright so far, enough to be having fun.
Best I can say is lame him out with your projectile. I spend a lot of the match running away and zoning him. He's like Cage in that he has a hard time getting in, and being a big body makes it a little more difficult to jump over your enhanced projectiles.
Did you know his d1 beats mime time?
@Kompetitor has been putting out some real nice Cage content lately, haven't seen him stream at all but here is his YT channel.
I don't think he's a good character this time around at all. Let's be honest with ourselves, he should've had an overhead instead of his slow as molasses B34, you know like the last two games. It's ironic, because this MK is where he needs it most.
if you take two equally skilled players, and one uses Cage, and the other uses anybody else in the cast, Cage loses 10 times out of 10. He's poorly designed. The fact that Cage Rage was supposed to be one of Scorpion's moves, but given to Cage at the last second, further proves my point.
As you said, he's got the tools that he needs, just needs some small tweaks to his frame data. It's tough to get anything really going when, as you pointed out, the opponent can just D3 you out of pretty much anything you throw out. Coincidentally, this was the issue that I had yesterday when I stated that I felt that I couldn't get anything going, I was facing a Baraka that kept using Blood Lunge and whenever I tried to do anything back, he'd just use D3 and keep up the pressure on me without giving me any real way of doing anything.
Now this is what I like to see.
I’ve tried laming him out but eventually he gets in. If he happens to trade it’s 100% in his favor. The real issue is that all he has to do is block low and wait to attack. In the neutral, where Cage excels, our normals are too short. Even b3. It becomes a poke/throw match. His attacks have too much reach and priority. Lacking a solid mid is really the problem here. I guess I’ll learn to flawless block his many gaps???
