What strings are y’all doing in neutral? Everything I’ve done has been unsafe. I have to just play footsies with the opponent, it seems very risky to try to apply actual pressure without them just punishing your unsafe strings, or blowing up gaps. Like I started canceling into Misery Blade to make things safe, but you can’t really hit confirm. So you have to commit to going into misery or commit to going for the combo, which the combo if blocked is unsafe. Is F3,4 safe? Been using that a lot but I’m not sure if it’s actually safe or not. I still don’t know all of his strings so that might be an issue. Also 112 seems safe but again, not sure. It also starts high though.
His teleport is pretty good as usual. If they’re in chip damage territory you’re pretty much guaranteed a win. Unless people find a way to counter it without blocking. Too fast to react to, so flawless blocking is kinda out of the question especially online. You can use it on reaction to a lot of things too, but it does have a pretty good amount of startup so you have to know the ranges otherwise you will be stuffed before you actually teleport.
Been using the Demon Dash and it’s really good if you play Scorpion as a footsie based character. You can be playing footsies and see them press a button then go into demon dash. It has good range and does ok damage. It’s definitely unsafe though. I kept testing how unsafe it was against ProudDisciple and he was punishing it every time.
Misery Blade is good but there’s such a huge gap between going into stance then going into a stance attack. The biggest use I’ve had for it is just canceling strings into it then canceling it. The low you get from it is quick and has decent range, so does the overhead. But both are definitely unsafe. Not sure if the aplified move has armor or anything, but I believe it’s an overhead too. The little poke you get from it is decent but haven’t gotten a chance to really test it out yet.
At least all his normals are decent. D1, D2, D3, and especially D4 are all good.
Just curious how y’all are handling his neutral. It seems like I’ve tried everything and it’s all very risky. However it could be like that with most characters in this game, have no idea. Really need a training mode lol