Mandolore1123
Man of Science Who Wields the Living Lightning
Ahaha sorry :') I think PL's been playing more Kabal lately. Slight gas suits his aggressive play style but I've never followed him closely anyway so I wouldn't know
Ahaha sorry :') I think PL's been playing more Kabal lately. Slight gas suits his aggressive play style but I've never followed him closely anyway so I wouldn't know
Its niche but there's some really strong projectiles that it avoids or at least adds some options against. Some that it outright ignores. Just that you can float there and not have to eat low or even mid projectiles with a cancel is strong, but it comes with almost half-screen evasive overhead(reminds me of Tamaranean Charge) and the lightning strike which doesn't always trade well with 50 damage but it lets you throw something out, possibly trade or avoid like you said. -4 is ugly but it's whatever
Careful of sand trap and rambo trap. They punish the diagonal projectile easily on block. I'm not saying the move is bad I've been using it since ultimate came out.
B12 needs to be -7 end of discussion. If Liu Kang has f34 at -7 with the vast amount of options he has Raiden deserves safety of off his main neutral string.
B12 has never needed to be safe. It's not like people are punishing the string often given how many options he has afterwards. It's already a good stagger and fulfils it's purpose as the higher-risk-higher-reward mid option in the neutral. If you want to stay safe your main neutral mid options should be F32 and F4. If you want to go for a higher risk option then you go B12 into something.
I don't know man. I'll fully admit I'm a pure casual player, but it seems fine to me. B12 is far from his only option. Raiden has a safe 11F mid string in F32. He can also jail into strings like 243 and 32 pretty easily for safe easy hit confirms or block pressure. He has a safe F4, his F2 is good. Even if you want to use B12 there's plenty of ways to stagger it to keep the opponent guessing. If you really want you can add something like his Float move and then you can mix in some B1-Float-Amp-Overhead shenanigans.
He’s viable enough to compete in Kombat league. Not at a pro level.
Why should I care about Raiden being viable at a "pro level"? Most pro's are simply going to pick from the top 5-10 characters anyways. Sonic Fox used Raiden for a tournament and they did just fine, several pro players have played Raiden in tournaments and done fine. Not every character can be top 5.
You're like a sadomasochist who just wants your character to be bad. The appropriate response to that is piss off. No Sonicfox didn't do fine. You need immaculate spacing to win with him at a high level and he deserves to be brought up beyond strike throw gimmick with an OS. The way the string is built as a high ender should leave it safe. The only other string that really needs to be looked at is 321 (tightening up the gap so you need to flawless block it, not sure what the idea is behind a gap that fucking huge is there. It's almost like they weren't actually thinking when they made the character. Fujin can make b11212 safe, cancel, pressure, and he plays less neutral than Raiden. I've gained this character MK9, MKX, and now, and this is the worst he's ever been not count the abomination that happened in Injustice 2.
All feedback welcome. I'm a bit rusty and this is the first Raiden video I've put up in a while so I missed some discharge punishes but other than that I'm pretty happy with this and the guy gave me props which was a rare and joyous occasionAny reason you barely use B3, 1, 2+4? I think i saw it once in all of those matches.
There are several reasons:
I tend to forget about moves a lot too. After a match i always think "why didn't i do more of this or that". I guess that's the difference between casuals and those that are much better players. Knowing all your options definitely helps to keep your opponent thinking.
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