I'm sorry guys, I've seen the light. Jailing so easily (I mean, come on, we all do it consistently with no practice whatsoever) is a serious problem. A most assuredly serious problem because with no real mix-up or way to open someone up, other than the "Is it a mid, overhead, low poke or throw game?", we might be able to apply substantial chip damage to our opponents. I mean, if we could actually harass people in a way that didn't lead them to just block high constantly and fuzzy the odd 113/11xF2 mix up, eating small amounts of damage from low pokes and being thrown away from us so that we then have to close distance, then people might have a fighting chance. But no, as long as we can do chip damage to people for such high, 7-9% amounts, we will continue to be a top 5 character. That chip damage... that jailing... it's a wonder people don't just wait until our stamina runs out and then destroy us with superior pokes and faster normals (real talk, D4 is 11 frames. That whole phantom hurtbox thing isn't really an issue when another poke OR NORMAL MOVE (looking at you, Liu's F4 & D3 (yeah, nested parenthetical biznitch)) beats it to the punch... ahem, kick.) But no... the jailing potential causes such fear that no one can resist pushing buttons and eating low to mid 20% combos. And as we make them screw up repeatedly... we destroy them in kombat.
Guys... I'm not joking. It's time to admit that Cage is a top, nay... the top character. Far more reliable and easy to play than Kung Lao, Tanya, Cassie, Quan Chi, Predator, Liu Kang and any other. I'm not sure we should ever get more than +1 off a shadow kick run cancel. Then we will all see the glorious mimicry light that is Stunt Double and work to perfect our execution and mind games with that variation... until it is discovered that it too is the strongest variation in the game, requiring so little skill they apply a ten second cooldown to clones and make it so that taking a hit or blocking a hit also dispels mimics.
Then... then the characters can truly thrive in this game... without fear of... JOOOOOOOOOOOOHNNY CAAAAAAAAGE!!!!!!
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