What up bro!
What up Playa! Gettin dirty with Lex I see.
One time I accidentally did it as wakeup pressure, and so I backdashed to cancel it, then Luthor rushed, and they dashed right into it. But other than tricking people with terrible reaction times (or online), not that I know of. I guess you could use it in case they jump in on you and would dodge it, but that's the whole point of charging it anyway.
TK refers to Tiger Knee input from the ancient way Sagat did his TK (forward, down, diagonal, forward, forward/up), of inputting most or all of a move before hitting up to jump and springing the attack ASAP. It's big in SF and Marvel for using the airborn version of a move as close to the ground as possible, usually because it has better recovery time or will instant overhead or some other shenanigan.
No, you can't actually tiger knee anything in Injustice; but I use it in reference to doing it as close to the first frame of your jump as possible. You can't do left, right, up, medium; the engine doesn't buffer quite like that. You have to actually input up, left, right, without diagonals. It takes a lot of practice on stick/pad to get it one inch off the ground, but in my opinion it's quite worth it as it's essentially unpunishable online, and offline it's rather close to it. [Except for Killer Frost, she gets a full combo punish off it regardless of how close to the ground you do it; don't use this move against her, just try to zone her out.] I personally play on hitbox [Replace the stick with buttons for the left, down, right, and up inputs], so the input difficulty is of limited concern (The same reason hitbox Cyborg is broken; Marlinpie proves this). Hitbox kind of breaks all the MK engine games though; i.e. Kabal.
Ya exactly. IACC
His good matchups are:
I didn't run into this problem in the tournament since next to no one plays Lex, but I can guarantee that in a few months when more people know about his gimmicks, he will become even worse. The only time I would play him is as a counterpick to Solomon Grundy, or Deathstroke, and that's just because air corps charge destroys both of those characters. I'm not saying he's unplayable, but goddamn, he's only got one mix-up (not including his terrible strings, he's got b2/b1, and b2 into CC does no damage) and all of his zoning can be avoided if you know how it works. If his b2 could combo into something other than just CC, he'd be worlds better, though.
Well the first order of business would be deciding what we would change. It's pointless to call for patches without having some sort of an idea of what could be done. As he stands, he could use more meterless combo options, a buff to his lance blaster damage, and MAYBE a slightly altered dash. The last thing that I want is a slew of changes that completely alters his playstyle. I like him because he is unique.
you cant be serious, sry but deathstroke feels like 7-3 or even 8-2 to me. i can handel alot of zoning in this game, if not all of it, except for deathstrokes. even if i FINALLY managed to inche my way in, its not like i lock him down to oblivion. i cant use any of Lex setups (mine, drone, trait) after a knockdown cause of those stupid spinning moves. its impossible to use mine/drone/trait at all in this matchup, full screen or close up. yeah i know that air spinning move is unsafe, but you still have to watch out for it.
i could see that work, instead of improving Lex movement, you could improve his trait.
In regards to what Wrenchfarm was saying I think both your ideas for the probe buff could be useful depending on how NRS wants Lex to use it. Is it supposed to be used as a legit projectile (in which case your buff makes sense), or is it supposed to be used as means to help get in (in which case Wrenchfarm's buff applies a bit more). I personally side with using it to help get in and buff the damage on the staff blast b/c i think that move seems like it's supposed to be his legit projectile.
You wait until he's shot his guns, then instead of dashing, you jump, and Corps Charge at the top of your jump height. Suddenly, you're saying 'Hello' to his face. If you block the spinning sword move, you get a free 33%+ punish off it, and if he hits with it all he does is ~10%, so I'd say you should just block on Deathstroke's wakeup. If he sword moves, sucks to be him, if not, you're still right next to him which is where he doesn't want you to be.
I heavily agree with less startup frames on the drone; as-is it's entirely worthless without MB, and with it all it can do is cover you getting in. If he had a better dash, it'd be kind of overpowered, since instant air Corps Charge is what you should be using for a forward dash, and his backdash is good enough to get out of Superman's punch punch Icebreath string, which is all you really need. Lance Blast is pretty 'meh' as you said, though. I honestly tried to make use out of it, I really did, but why lance blast when you could mine / trait, as both of those are better options?
Nah, this would be too good. It's more than enough that he can combo d1 into db2, if I had known that I would've done far better at the tournament. Plus, the 112 string isn't even very good, except as a punishment to something unsafe. Mid-mid-high, with the most broadcasted high attack in the game? Nah, I'll stick to empty jumps b1 / j.2, thanks.
Wow, giving a -reason- to put staff blast out? That would be cool; I think I've used that move a total of thirty times in over five hundred matches. It's even less useful than his drones. I wouldn't say charging it is a pipe dream, you can totally start charging when they're at mid-screen, and have it fully charged by the time they jump in... twice at you. Right into it's unblockable area... Because they don't know what they're doing...
I can tell you right now, that'd be incredibly broken. His trait is -really- good, and as a balance to this, you can only use it after knockdown / when they're sitting at full screen with a non-zoning character.
