Lol, not even. A full screen throw would be unblockable at least. It's High, Unsafe, and pointless as even in combos Teleport is superior for damage. It only has certain VERY specific uses that are still outclassed by other tools he has and literally every other character that has a similar tool does it better with LESS damage scaling too.
Yes. Like only he have mechanic "launch only for meter and you can be punished for your combo by air-escape". Others just ignore 1 or both rules (like kabal, for example). Spear is worst special in the game, it damage to scorpion more, than he damage to enemy by it, lol
Scorpion is going to be absolutely garbage for anything resembling competitive play.
They changed it to where you have to punish with that specific move in order to get the krushing blow. So no more D2 krushing blow into F34 krushing blow.
well that sucks
Reason he's garbo is because he has practically no safe moves at all. Yes he can do some damage but... other characters naturally get more for less in comparison. But nevermind damage, without any real safe moves, how's he expected to even GET IN or apply pressure in the first place? His best move outside of Misery Blade is his Hellport which forces anyone too projectile happy to respect him... 2nd best move is Demon Dash, which is best used as a finisher as it too is unsafe unless you get a hard read and punish.
Speaking specifically about his tourney deathspin variation, his b14 is his main combo starter (aside from 11 or 21 at close range) which should be hit confirmed into tele or b143 on block to keep him safe. Other than that he has his f32 which should rarely be committed to, the lingering threat of overhead to low and the fact that his f3 is only -2 on block leaves options open, f3 into grab, f3 into f4, f3 into b14. His death spin special is an 11 frame mid that can punish other characters advance on reaction and covers both the air and the ground. It's actually quite difficult for other characters to get in, and if they try and zone, it seems like most characters projectiles can be punished on reaction with his teleport this time around. Time will tell, but I think it's abit premature to call him trash on release day.
Well looking at the hotfix notes where everyone except Kitana got nerfed further, it may wind up being fair after all if EVERYONE is going to be horrendously unsafe. I'll admit that his b14 is a great string, especially since you have 2 hits to hitconfirm and can hit 3 at the end if it winds up blocked. But he needs more than that... everyone's going to just block low by default and the only discourager he has is an overhead that is a 'one hit done' with no options after it.
No one else can either. They took away almost all the 3 button string cancels.
It seems to me that there is not a lot who can actually have 50/50. Only Sub-zero comes to my mind right now, the rest have OH options, but they don't link to anything much.
Agree, I lab scorp yesterday and started to understand purpose of b2 and his -16 minus.
f32 is not stagger, f32 is high-risk high-reward move, but only when you sure about your enemy, that he will 100% press buttons after f3 (f3 throw will teach them press buttons after f3. f3 -2 on block) or enemy try to Flafless Block f3*4 on second hit. In other scenario it -25 on block and super-punishable. YOLO move.
f423 have gaps between all 3 hits f423, but people wait to OH, so you can d3 after f4.
The most I could get with no krushing blows or fatal blows with 2 bars was 45%. How’d you get 47%?