Peckapowa
Champion
superman that hoe
personally i found that cage and sonya didnt feel that bad(despite them both having auto correct nonsense, though i think sonyas projectile recovery makes it risky to tele, however u can block the dive kick sometimes if u tele, also its hard too really damage cage if hes played correctly), cyber sub was weird but u can superman him a lot and zone him out
Kabal and Sonya certainly seem to be the toughest. You made a good point with Cage. I think Raiden goes even with Lao tbh. Raiden's defensive and escaping tools can limit Lao's mobility to an extent. Reptile is an asshole but still 5-5. Sektor 5-5 for sure. I think Raiden beats Kenshi. Kano is a 5-5 because of auto correct bullshit/knives or up ball reverse inputs.
most of what you said is very true dude. raiden doesn't have the easy way out like other top characters. he doesn't have an abusable safe tool like Sonya, Kabal or Kenshi do. if you win with him you have outplayed your opponent no doubt. the point is that because people fear Raiden's teleport (or at least respect it), it gives Raiden free offense. at jump-in range, an opponent is thinking shall i make the first move? what if i do something, whiff and get punished? raiden says ok fuck you stay hesitant i'll get a free jump in or a B312 or whatever. try get a grab in there and voila you have a life lead. raiden can run away with it. thats how you play. countering opponents, using the teleport wisely and capitalising on grab mix-ups. the only time you should pressure with raiden is in the corner.
Raiden doesn't blow up pokes? Since when? I always blow up pokes in any 0 or -1 situation by back dashing into b312. Sometimes even after a teleport. It blows up any d1 or d3 unless it's kitana's d1 or smokes d3. It catches his d3 sometimes, but it's just in consistent.
yeah ive also realized something really good about raiden. i think hes s tier
Care to elaborate?
if u counter-poke d3s with teleport, or d1s with a small delay, and ur opponent decides to do a string, you will reversal them for a full combo, so that literally makes his defense insane, in matchups like cage with auto-correct after d3 just block the d3 and tele instead of teleing during the d3. u can also counter-poke d1s on hit with tele, obviously u want to not do it everytime but literally he nullifies pokes, anytime they do a string u can counter-tele, just dont teleport during a poke, counter-poke wiht tele
Yeah it's pretty good. That's one of the things that makes Raiden hard to deal with because he's unlike any other character. You can even teleport out if they hit you with a downpoke. It's awesome lol. BUT if they know you're going to do this... they can blow it up. Like I said, you usually don't have to think about this with any character so it does blow a lot of people up. They can downpoke and just wait a split second if they know you're going to teleport, but obviously if they immediately go into their blocked string after the down poke then once you teleport they are whiffing in the opposite direction.
Raiden can duck any shoulder and get 35% damage for free. Even ex-shoulder. But then again, that works for most characters. What's nightwolf's best mixup vs raiden... shoulder or lightning? Duck shoulder or jump his lightning and it's big damage either way. Raiden's armor leads to 30% damage over nightwolf's armored choke move which is crappy damage.
NW outdamages Raiden, but it's not a total blowout. And who says Raiden has to superman?
Yes, they are better for sure. Raiden outranges him by a lot, and lightning can be reacted to.
http://www.testyourmight.com/index.php?threads/14301/
ex lightning on raiden? lol good luck with that one.ive played nw for nearly a year and have finally realized ex lightning isnt worth the risk most of the time.the raiden match needs to be played just like nw has to fight everyone else-stand there and block and pray for a mistake,the only thing nw has going for him is his damage output.
