You mean you don't think Raiden is a good character?? Also PL still uses Kung Lao.
Sonya isn't a bad matchup, it's even.
Don't most people have Sonya as a bad MU for raiden?
Yeah I agree, Raiden has a lot of competitive matchups (5-5's) but no unwinnable/bad matchups.according to tom brady raiden doesn't have a bad matchup, do you agree bwizz? btw congrats, raiden is my second character for any bad cage matchups and i learned alot from watching you use raiden. oh and amma call you FreeW1zZ cuz i like putting Free into everyone names where it makes sense to
so in your opinion does that make raiden the best character in the game?
At this point for me anyways it's hard to say who the best character in the game is. I'm torn between Kabal and Raiden.
yeah i still say kabal is better, but raiden is easier to use than kabal. imo tele makes raiden top tire cuz you can't zone or pressure him, but his normals blow and transitioning from cage to raiden all the time fucks me over cuz i think i could just pressure with 33 and b3 1 and stop short and start up again like i do with cage, whats your tip on pressuring with raiden?
In my opinion Kabal is hard in the sense that he is execution heavy, but Raiden is harder because it overall takes strong fundamentals to do well with him. As far as pressuring with Raiden you have to play good footsies and fill in holes in your offense with 1's, D1's, D3's etc and make good reads. Also F23 by itself is a good pressuring tool because it leaves you at 0 on block and jails so you can land vicinity blast, which leads to a plethora of options after blocked by your opponent. B3 / B31 into throw, D3 into throw, stand 1 on hit into D3 F24 etc.
thanks good to know about the f23 vicinity blast jail, and yea about kabal i meant in execution, raiden really takes a lot to master as we can see even though raiden has no bad matches he has yet to win a major besides PL, but i bet it was more PL being good and the player he was playing against didn't really play the MU right imo. not saying 16fans or slips or dizzy are bad, no contrary, but i didn't see anyone interupt PL in his strings or punish tele hard like they could have. am probably going to try and level up my raiden at vsm this thursday as i want to explore more character than cage, because am so not confident in any other character but cage. if you get a chance to watch the stream this thursday and am on i would really appreciate any and all criticism on my raiden or any character really. amma post the stream video on both character video thread as well to get the same result as i really want to up my game as much as possible and the best way is to ask the best evaluate how its done and imo your the best raiden right now
thanx
tele and block then grab or down 1 shocker to punish up ball
we're all proud of you brother. I really do hope you can make it to MLG so the sooner we get to see more of your raiden, the better.