Why they gotta release a patch while I'm traveling for work?Pole Vault Shadow kick can be jailed into from some normals/strings for that sexy +3. When you input pole vault just hold down 3 and spam amplify. List:
12
F2
3
B3
F3
F34
4
43
Kustom Mode only: (Nitro Kick is NOT optional, you need Pole Vault and Nitro Kick.)
344
To be fair, I was doing all of this before the patch...it wasn't hard to condition an opponent to get away with it, it's just even easier now lolI think people are heavily discounting how obnoxiously dope she is now as a rushdown character. Flawless blocking back 3,4,3,4 just got a lot less viable versus her because of ex run shadow kick. Back 3,4,3,4 is plus 5 on block and the kick being plus 3 is super lit. Jade will be tagging people with plus frames like gang busters if she is played well with good meter management. Pole vault only being -3 for its range is actually super potent too. Stagger you to death, get in on you with a safe on block chip special that hits mid and is cancelable on top of her run shadow kick and glow. She gets in well and is unpleasantly potent when she does.
People mad about safe staff spin suggestions, but this is actually better and plus so lol to them.
People also aren't understanding that she can now do BACK 2 and BACK 1 and cancel into this for safe ranged harassment. Safe overhead and so on. I'm surprise people aren't more hyphy about this.
Jade now has two fun, unique variations instead of one. I feel like Jaded has a legitimate place in the meta and I'm gonna switch over to it as a main focus after Kombat League season ends.
She reminds me of Hawkgirl/Doomsday now where she has strong mobility and counter zoning into plus frames for a bar.
Her bad match ups took a hit AND she got some juice to check people she can't zone well against. I'm here for it all.
Yes, +3 for one bar of meter. Pretty damn godlike considering it's gapless off of multiple strings and she gets a poke check in some cases and then mind games can follow from there.
You didn't have a plus on block high chip attack that was Gapless before so it's not the same especially since interrupting her normals cancelled into pole vault was never hard. People were doing that in the beta before we even had a proper training mode. Jaded went from an edgy "I wanna be different" pick to something truly worth using. Nobody was worried about Jaded which is why it has been mostly discounted until now and only used for one to two matches by most like against Scorpion or Shang Tsung. She also couldn't run up on you and activate her fatal blow either. These changes are too big to be saying, well I was doing that before lol.To be fair, I was doing all of this before the patch...it wasn't hard to condition an opponent to get away with it, it's just even easier now lol
Thank you, I recorded matches last night, I was mistiming the amp shadow kick sometimes but as the set went on it improved. I'll upload/post today or tomorrow.@Espio Im happy for you, show us some matches!
Looking forward to it.You didn't have a plus on block high chip attack that was Gapless before so it's not the same especially since interrupting her normals cancelled into pole vault was never hard. People were doing that in the beta before we even had a proper training mode. Jaded went from an edgy "I wanna be different" pick to something truly worth using. Nobody was worried about Jaded which is why it has been mostly discounted until now and only used for one to two matches by most like against Scorpion or Shang Tsung. She also couldn't run up on you and activate her fatal blow either. These changes are too big to be saying, well I was doing that before lol.
Thank you, I recorded matches last night, I was mistiming the amp shadow kick sometimes but as the set went on it improved. I'll upload/post today or tomorrow.
designed to be more pressure/rushdown. Glad they didn't abandon it.I just want to lab this, but now I'm at work.
B343 is a true jail into enhanced shadowkick. You cannot let go of block to crouch it. That's literally the glue that ties everything together for her. If you sit there holding block it opens up her cancels...if you want to play it safe you can shadow kick...like, I'm not sure if that was intended...
Unless it's a frost only thing, but I was using her in the lab against it and she could not crouch block that pole vault shadow kick after b343.
Has anyone checked her new frames after cancels in strings? That's what I wanted to check when I got home...
Back 3,4,3 has a cancel advantage of 15 and properly done amp run shadow kick is ten frames so it's air tight along with several other buttons/strings.designed to be more pressure/rushdown. Glad they didn't abandon it.
What's pole vault's startup again? Doesn't D4 guarantee us some nice juicy pressure?Oh wow my list was all whack. The tighter timing on some of these was too much for me I guess. I've amended the list to more properly reflect reality.