Why have people switched back to TW? It's been awhile since I've tried keeping up with in depth character stuff in MK (I've been trying to learn Virtua Fighter and raise a baby. Both are fun but difficult.).
TW is officially the best variation again. Mobility off the charts, and the stagger potential of B12 is much better because of the 50/50 (OS-able but much harder than Raijin), and then there’s the poke~storm cell game, not to mention TW has decent unbreakable damage even without the armour breaker anyway. I’ve seen someone say TW has no losing MUs too. Raijin has to rely on F3~DF2 and F32 for optimal general offense which is low risk but unfortunately low reward. I can’t say for sure if this is the reason since I’m not good enough as a player to judge but I’ve been talking with other Raiden players on Discord and most share the consensus that TW is the best variation right now
EDIT: Honestly I don’t really agree personally that Raijin is now irrelevant, and I really think it does better in certain MUs, but at the moment it’s a case of TW can live without Raijin but Raijin can’t really survive without TW to cover some bad MUs.
