Alright guys has anyone figured out a decent way to deal with cyborg, raven, death stroke and superman?
Cyborg - unlike all other zoners it's very difficult (as in impossible) to block then advance forward. Instead, walk forward and pick your spots to hit or trade with EX rocket. For example after he does a fireball that goes over your head or on anticipation of him shooting one. It does good damage (17%) and is a UTKD that pops him towards you. This will allow you to dash in and apply pressure. After that try to make good reads and not let him get away.
Deathstroke and Raven are played the standard GL way you play zoners. Walk forward at them and block their zoning tools on reaction then you get a free dash forward and boom your in your optimal range.
If you're having trouble opening people up who are just walking backwards, just walk forward at them (walk forwards are nearly universally faster than walk backs). Try to block anything they do on reaction or react accordingly. Once you're inside b1's silly range walking backward gets full combo punished.
Superman is similar, except you want to jump forward over all his zoning tools (including air laser). The start ups are hella telegraphed. Air laser is full combo punish by lift if you're in range to walk up and even farther if you successfully jump over it.
If supes tries to keep you oh he's gonna have a bad time. It's when he tries to play footsies or rushes down that he becomes difficult.
His jump normals are trash and air dash cross ups are about as fraudulent a mix up as there is, but his f23 string is pretty GDLK. If he's really committed to f23 breath loops your options are limited. You can challenge with d1 but mathematically speaking the best you can hope for is a trade and that's if you're both frame perfect. If you're a frame slow you're risking a poke for getting blown up for huge damage. Not my preferred way of going about things.
Instead, you can pushblock, or, my preferred method, just continue blocking until he gets bored and tries an easy to see mix up. (22 scoop or 223 is the overhead / low game for supes. I think those are the inputs. Anyway, it's mad easy to block; just always low block for the scoop since its much faster and react to the overhead)
Since normals have negligible chip in this game (0.1-0.2%) you have little to fear from blocking long sequences like that. As opposed to Johnny Cage, who could chip 30-40% off for the same thing.
Patience is the name of the game. GL rewards patient, calculated play so satisfyingly it's ridiculous.
