• Raiden (I personaly think it's 3-7 ; but some people can say it's 4-6 )
- Spacing
You really can't try to rushdown on raiden, he has too much tools to blow you up while you try to do that,
so the smart decision is to stay in footsies, wait for a teleport or a jump, it really comes in handy cause
your uppercut can beat both, the same for its 1 1 2 string. Don't forget he can superman too, but it's too risky,
he's not gonna try that too many times.
- Punishment
Teleport: Raiden is all about teleport, so you want to read it and punish it.
You can make a 1,1,2 trance and go into your combo of choice, you can
also uppercut, if you see it on reaction.
When you need to expect it coming? If you blocked a Raiden's string in the beginning
he'll problably cancel that into teleport, after 33/334 most part of the time.
Superman: Punish it with b2 1, dash, b2 1, b1 1 into trance, I'll do 26% damage after trance,
and this leads into combo or runetrap. You can also do the "QuanFusion" version, which is
b 2 1, b 2 1, b 1 1 into trance, and them u3 into teleport.
Don't expect Superman too much, if Raiden is fullscreen or almost there, he's gonna throw
one or two fireballs and the teleport in your face, so you want to block, or crounch that
fireballs and wait for his teleport afterwards, after 1 or 2 teleports punished like this,
he's gonna come with a superman, its not always the same rhitm, all Raidens has its own style
of fighting, but remember, when he's fullscreen, he'll teleport or superman to get on you.
If you get a superman in the face, don't sound like a big deal, but it can lead to corner,
and we all know how bad is for Quan Chi to be knocked down in the corner, so watchout for
superman and teleport, in this match up, can be really frustrating for Quan, for others not so
much since superman is not a big deal, you can wait for teleports.
Eletrocute: You can punish it very easy with your 1 1 2 string into trance~combo.
Most part of Raiden players will do it after 1,2,1,2 string.
- QuanFusion:
That's your best friend against Raiden, and once he understand how it works, become more easily
to bait their teleport and get a free combo. First of all let me remember that this is a tatic
created by TheSolitude and showed to us by Mayo, if your opponent isn't aware of "quanfusion"
you can try to get him in the first time, but remember, the first time is just to show the Raiden
player that it exists, so do it, and instead of doing an attack, just block, cause if he teleports,
and you do b3 you'll be in serious trouble. If he didn't wakeup, at least he will recognize that
you're saying "hey dude, I inverted your wakeup controls", and he'll think about the teleport option,
as wakeup, cause it doesn't invert commands, so wait for him in the oposite side on next quanfusion.
*My friend plays with Raiden, and I'm still working on this matchup, and how rune trap works against him...
I want to breakdown the sonya matchup next week, which I think is his worst matchup.
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