The fact that he did the low staff on block means he wasn’t hit-confirming. Therefore he was not a good Raijin by any means
Actually, he got me a few times but I adapted to his pattern. His Raijin wasn't bad at all, I would have posted the match but the damn switch updated and NRS has this dumb thing where if you have previous matches that record automatically the game will not let you replay them due to "different version of the game"
Unsafe, Can be reacted to and neutral jump punish for ALL his options. Does not lead to combo
+3 only when done off her running stance, if done raw is a HIGH and mad unsafe. Does not lead to combo
Most important strings have FB gaps and are minus enough for you to take your turn after blocking. The low option is -20 which should be a full combo punish.
Half screen HIGH that can be ducked and full combo punished. Is -7 on block with 0 pushback -> you take your turn with a free strike throw mix
But you can: move in for free/throw out a BF1/throw out a DF2 AMP (TW specific)/set up QC (Raijin specific)/throw out DB4 projectile and win the zoning war (Raijin specific)
Best of all, you can actually dance between the set distances Geras has for sand trap because guess what? It does NOT track the opponent. So you can be safe if you know your spacing well and play good neutral with the opponent.
Used to be correct, not so since the last patch because Raiden can AMP DF2 on block and make himself safe at full screen. This built in mix up means characters that originally could reversal punish Raiden have to second-guess their punish attempt as long as Raiden has bar.
Raijin counters Upgraded pretty well. I suggest you learn him
Normally offline, sure but not online with wacky wifi that slows everything down. Good luck with punishing those gaps under those circumstances.
It would be even cheaper. What character in this game has a safe stun launcher that also jails from pokes and has a circular hit box that you can anti-air with?
Putting strong tools and infinites on the same table of discussion is stupid. Infinites break the rules of the game, of course they should be patched out.
The ONE difference between this game’s meter system and the meter system in MK9 and MKX is that it DOES recharge over time. Every move is risk vs reward. Making storm cell amped safe skews the reward in Raiden’s favour because as long as you have one bar of meter the threat of eating a full combo every single time is sufficient in making every opponent just sit there and take the three hits of chip. Not to mention you are -3 on block so you also reset neutral with push back.
There’s so much wrong in this post.
I'm aware, but jumping doesn't mean auto escape and safe if LK waits his teleport punch stuffs you right out of the air....so not so safe unless you're just doing it blindly with a set pattern.
Not with lag none of that means much when you're facing wacky pings with wifi....
Yes, that's why I said with Jaded because that is the only V with running cancels...
I should have been more specific, not from half or full screen. But from sweep/footsie distance unless you duck and know it's coming it's often too fast and when blocked gives her pushback...
No you can't, I'm talking about TW not Raijin....and good luck trying to do anything with his third V. There's also no free throws in this game, you can get jailing into a free opportunity to throw but they can still throw tech out of it if you're fast enough.
I have no interest in Rajin, it's good but not as good as some people hype it up to be and besides, does not fit my style at all.
Ehh what? It's Still slow on recovery where he can't counter, tested this out and most of the time you're not going to use his amp DF2 because he can use that meter for other things. If you feel differently from full screen where you think Raiden can counter Geras being safe on a normal lightning strike, please show me a video showing this.
No it wouldn't, be less cheap if anything. Also, I noticed you didn't address my Scorp teleport example that took them 4 months to fix. They let that slide and only patched due to all the people demanding nerfs. That move is WAY worse than Raiden having a safe SC as are the others. The point is to make Raiden better not worse. If I wanted him to have safe SC, teleport on top of his Raijin that would be uber cheap and broken. But since he only has the teleport in one variation. Yeah....not a big deal to me.
Yes, I agree never said they were the same. My point is that Raiden has something broken, it gets fixed. Scorpion or others i didnt til 4 months later not a few days. You can't deny this with Scorps teleport for example....EVERYONE had issues with it except Scorp mains. of course. That move the way it was killed the neutral which is the point of MK 11 to begin with to be a heavily neutral based game.
It recharged in MK 9 too, just differently. Those games it recharged via taking hits, block damage and when you were doing combos. The main difference was for characters with faster projectiles and zoning tools, recharged their meter faster due to such but this wasn't even a big deal with characters like KL who couldn't even spam his hat, he was just so strong it didn't matter. No, not every move is risk vs rewards SAFE moves are not risky at all....hence why they're SAFE, you can throw them out and not worry about counter attack. Raiden's SC is very risky all the time unless hit confirmed or used in a combo where it's guaranteed. If not he gets punished. That and you get meter taken from you if you do amp teleports and directed ones takes defensive meter. He's not safe from counter attack blocked SC gets punished easily unless there's lag which Sikander and many other streamers have pointed out. Not wrong, if anything I'm right I played MK 9 a ton, was 2 on the xbox leaderboards and competed against even tourney players in that game. The game was not flawless but it had much better gameplay elements than MK 11 has with certain things.
