Very footsies intensive. You have to play Jax from a little further out than sweep distance. This gives you decent room to forceball with a lighter chance of getting blown up by EX dash punch. Sliding vs Jax is solid because it's advancing and ducks under energy wave and dash punch, and Jax simply doesn't hurt midscreen do having it blocked is whatever. Also, Reptile is one if the characters Jax's f413 whiffs on, and he can 122 it.
I feel its pretty close. My friend plays jax and mostly I try to zone him and keep him at bay with d4 acid hand/forceball. It's a bit easier to get out of the corner with reptile with ex dash too. Not easy, but easier haha.
I'm always nervous trying thus haha, I end up poking far to often.
I've foughten a Jax like twice with Reptile, I'd usually try and just zone a bit. After he takes note I'm zoning, I'd dash in and pressure him.
The thing is is that Mileena has garbage normals trying to combat Reptile up close where as she relied heavily to zone him with instant Air Sai from full screen but then Reptile received the armored Ex Slide buff which helped him and she counterattack his zoning -Teleport Kick his attempts. How the MU evolved, Reptile can turtle Mileena and bait her if he plays patient, he loses to her if he tries to zone her with projectiles with respect to her Teleport Kick and Roll. What was his worst MU, is now moved to a solid 5-5 IMO. No way Sonya will ever be 5-5, 4-6 at best.
It's not even just that with Sonya, not only can she get around his zoning with complete and total ease in more than one way, but when she is in Reptile's face he has no options except dash/Ex slide. She can interrupt ex elbow so that makes it hard to keep advantage and pressure. She can literally do whatever she wants once she is up close and there is nothing that Reptile can do about it except throw out a move and pray that it hits.
Please believe it dude. Reptile's only heavy advantage in this MU is he gets in faster than most, Teleport should be noob's best friend against any zoning reptile tries to do at all. Reptile's only answer against noob is to get in that ass and he isn't that great at it. Noob can jump out and teleslam ex dashes (or at least I'm pretty sure). As long as you play this MU safe Noob has no reason to be scared. I could give you a 6-4 I believe that could be true, but not 7-3 no way.
It's almost starting to look a lot like the Sektor MU to be honest (imo anyway), but just not as bad. Oh that Kano MU was actually a mistake I meant 6-4 Reptile haha. Fixing now.
i like it just disagree with a couple.
I can understand Mileena, as well as Jax actually (though I firmly believe that is 6-4 Reptile) but as for the rest I just can't.
curbo was jumping way to much and not even respecting the option of elbow dash. Half the time he wasn't using the right ex fb frame trap and he also refused to just dash block in when getting zoned. Cage doesn't have any reason at all to jump in this MU.
I agree he did so those things. However it still shows reppy can do decent at keeping him out. Plus Tyler could have dashed more after blocking some of those strings.
Don't mistake Dizzy winning (or me losing) a deficiency with Reptile; Reptile is my secondary and I use him to counter certain bad matchups that Cyrax has. Dizzy is the BEST Cage out there, as well. Reptile has all the tools to make Cage an even battle, despite what you saw on stream. GGA Dizzy sometimes transforms into Omega Dizzy, and at that point no one can beat him, as well.
i think its a little in cages favor offline
Bro dont take what I said the wrong way. Even if its your secondary, you've got one of the best Reptile's I have ever seen, maybe even the best imo.
