I don't see how Sektor loses to Kabal. Hell, REO thinks it's 6-4 in Sektor's favor, though I think it's even.
I also don't really see how he loses to Mileena, but I don't have a whole lot of experience in that matchup, so perhaps I'm just missing something. In Smoke's case, I think it's only a bad matchup if Sektor tries to zone, and while that's his primary focus, he can press the offense when needed. His normals are quite a bit faster than Smoke's, so I do think he wins up close. I realize he does have to catch up to Smoke as well, but if that was so hard, no one would think Cage is a bad matchup for him. 5-5, IMO.
This is copied and pasted from the kabal matchup thread. Have yet to have any1 dispute this either with evidence.
Kabal beats Sektor 6-4 when you truly understand the matchup. Kabal can effectively shut down nearly all of Sektor’s tools.
In order to play this match up, Kabal must play a mix of lame/footsie game. Sektor’s worst matchups come from characters he cannot zone or anti-zone(Kenshi,Smoke,Kabal). All these characters have projectiles that you cant trade nor ITU on reaction(unless your opponent is being predictable or spamming them.)
What Kabal needs to do is use a good combination of iAGB and ground saw to keep Sektor at bay, but not autopilot. For instance, throwing out one gas blast then ground saw, then 2 gas blasts, then a ground saw is a good way to lame out sector. Why u ask? ON REACTION, if you iTU the gas blast when you see it, kabal will recover and can block. If Sektor is trying to make educated guesses on when to iTU, you have already won the match.
Now mixing it with the ground saw is very important because iTU whiffs ground saw, so this has effectively made your zoning completely safe. You feel that your becoming more predictable and that in your next set of iAGB will get iTU based on a READ(not Reaction)?! Throw out a ground saw and watch me whiff, and watch me get full comboed.
Now your probably thinking, missiles? Don’t make me laugh. Try trading forward and up missiles with kabal and tell me how that works out for you. So I can’t trade, can’t iTU and have no armor to get in, so I must now play the same obstacle course character’s like cage and kitana play, but im no cage nor kitana.
And here comes the biggest 2 things kabal players say: Sektor’s low hitbox and cornering himself. First off, if your cornering yourself, that’s your own inability to the play the field. Mixing up your lame zoning game, armor and pressure against sector and you should always be where you want. You control the field
Now your probably thinking pressure???! Sektor’s low hitbox!!! Everytime I beat a kabal its because they tried to do a whole myriad amount of random strings. The only string you need to be doing is the 3,2(I think that’s the nomenclature) into either the overhead or saw. That string to the overhead or saw should be the only non armored pressure string you should do. Both give enough pushback that none of sektor’s strings that launch will hit.
Now here comes the guessing game, which is still in kabal’s favor. You can do one of two things after the overhead/low. Go straight into your iGAB and ground saw lame tactic or go for a armored dash cancel into combo.
-Positives for the first option
You begin to lame out Sektor once again.
You might have caught him doing any move besides a f2
-Negatives
If I do f2, you get comboed for around ~15%
-Positives for second option
You armor through all possible strings sector could do + F2 for a full combo.
-Negatives
Sektor blocks your armored string and your in his face. Then your block button ftw.
So if you plan to fight sector like all the other characters with all these different flashy block strings or spam 5+ iAGB in a row, by all means, give me that W. But when playing a footsie kabal plus laming it out, there is no way this in Sektor’s favor.
ALL OF THIS IS MY OPINION.
P.S. None of these tactics work against jax, but by no means is this matchup in jax’s favor. Kabal has no bad matchups IMO. His worst is 5-5. These 5.5’s need to retire and people need to start being brutally honest. It's either we are counter picking and giving 8-2s or we are being lazy and can't win 4-6s or to lazy to learn matchups.
P.S.S.
Order of best kabal’s I have ever played. Reo then Detroit then Soonk.
Order of who I got beat by the worst. Soonk then Detroit then Reo.
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