STOP!! he's fine... he needs ZERO buffs.
Dude wants an OVERHEAD claw.. "Hey.. plz buff so I can have a 50/50 as a wake up attack option. I dont want to be pressured so give me an option that makes players want to back off or be mixed up as I get off the ground".
GET OUT OF HERE
he doesn't need an overhead claw. He needs a damage buff. On nearly everything.
Reptile's pressure is nowhere near as good as it was in MK9.
That coupled with his sub-par damage output makes him bottom 5. He simply is. He has tools. And some are pretty good. But he's meter hungry.
Meter starved actually. He can't do shit without meter.
His normals have shitty recovery. And other than his overhead starter (which only nets good damage if he ends up meter burning anything after it) he has nothing. B3? Nets piss poor damage if you have no meter.
No joke here. Reptile is bottom 5 along with Liu Kang, Goro, Kitana and Mileena. They're not bad characters. The game is very balanced. But these guys are currently the weakest of them all and shame on you for upplaying them and downplaying the rest.
Liu Kang needs only one thing and one thing only. Have his 113 string hit mid mid overhead. That's all. An overhead starter would be too much and would place him immediatly in top tier. So he needs to have his overhead string actually hitting the opponent, which it currently doesn't because 80% of the match up knowledge is blocking low vs him.
Mileena's getting better. She's faster and slightly safer... but she still has trouble opening up the opponent. They're giving up stuff she doesn't need and still not giving her a faster f+3 or making her roll hit low.
Kitana I actually think doesn't need much. Her fans are scary. Scariest projectile in the game. You get hit in the air by one you hit 30+% combos all day. Maybe give her f+2 an overhead status? Seems to much to be honest because she has potential.
Goro... Honestly don't know what to give him. Faster run? He has tremendous block advantage on nearly anything he does. Sure, he's slow... But he locks you up for days. Maybe damage boost in his meterless punch walk?
Hard to not say these characters are bottom five. Since they have an uphill battle against nearly everyone on the roster.
Reptile because of his nearly non-existant meterless damage. He relies on meter and he's not very good at getting it.
Kitana because of her lack of options. Do think that out of these 5 she's the best.
Mileena because she's unsafe and has trouble opening up opponents.
Goro because he's slow and lacks good meterless damage outside of his b1 b2 u2 string.
Liu Kang because he simply has no options. Block low all day.
. I also don't think so doe.
