I'm a king jin main, looking at picking up an alt. I'm reading all of the threads, but what's raidens weakness? Is he really solid or what? I love my jin.
His main weakness is a decent low/overhead mixup, mainly because if his overhead option(b2) is blocked, you have until next week to punish him. Yeah, you can cancel the 2nd hit of his overhead into something like shocker, but then you have no combo afterwords.
In Thundergod, he can fish for a combo starter with b+3,2(hold)... if any of the hits in this string connects, the rest connects and you can hit confirm into an EX shocker and go from there. Again however, if your opponent is patient, they can just block the whole string low and jab punish you. In other variations, his main low starter is b+3,3, but I've heard it's very hard to hit confirm that into EX shocker on reaction.
In the end, when Raiden goes to combo, it seems like he has to go all in. The one exception to this is the 213 and 214 string. Especially with a jump in punch, you can continue with 21 and hit confirm this into the 3 (combo starter), 4 (into EX shocker) or if it's blocked, 4 (into regular shocker or LB backdash cancel, etc). None of this is a mixup though, since after the jump in, they can block the rest low without fear.
One last thing -- on the plus side -- someone said Raiden has trouble with zoners... I would disagree. Even without displacer, if you're fast enough (or they are being predictable), Raiden can just EX superman through any projectiles and push them into the corner, instantly gaining advantage. Raiden also has a unique immunity to crossups (IE confusing your inputs on wakeup) with both his X-Ray (hits both sides) and the fact that both DF2 and DB2 with EX have armor and start combos. He's very solid on wakeup with the right awareness.
