Smash is sorta different though in why it's effective, and it's used for different purposes of movement there. If I see someone doing this in MK I'm at least going to shoot them lol.
Yeah, but I wouldn't say smash is 100% different from MK. It's probably one of the closest fighters out there if you factor some core similarities like there being a block button and running.
And true, of course Jacqui can "just shoot Kitana". That's why I mentioned in the original thread that you wouldn't abuse this in every match up. Smash also has lasers and full screen projectiles.
Glad to see some top players who are actually willing to share their findings, good stuff
@YOMI REO . Shame it's already been looked into a little before but hopefully now that someone more recognised has posted about it we might see it be implemented in tournament
Well yes, obviously it's been looked into before. Players were doing similar methods in the 3D MKS, and especially in MK9 with Kenshi like
@Scoot Magee mentioned. It's just no character has ever had it be so severe before to the degree where the fastest walking character in the game is getting outgunned. Hence the whole point of even making a thread about it, lol. And ESPECIALLY in a game like MKX where good defensive abilities are scarce.
This is a video of me doing the block method. I'm actually hitting block too fast at the start (first 5 seconds or so) and it's slowing her down. It should only take about 4-5 block presses to go from right next to them to full screen.
Hmm. I never really tried the block method but you should try it against a Kotal walking forward and see if it's possible to be able to do it as fast as level 2 wavedashing with crouch buffers. In theory, I assume it wouldn't be able to reach the speed of level 2 wavedashing because crouching and letting go can be done in exactly 1 frame where as blocking would probably take an extra frame.
