I am also struggling with her, and i am not even sure what it is about tbh. I feel like every time i am doing much better with Jade. Since i play them the most, but i feel like for me personally Jade is much better pick.
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She feels sluggish and her buttons feel deceptively worse than they seem. Her buttons seem top notch at first glance until you realize this game has Kabal, Cetrion and a whole bunch of characters with insane d4s.
Block the F2 crouching and interrupt the 2nd hit
WHAT?!
I don't think it's all that bad. Feels like I can zone her out a bit and it's the same battle as everyone else up close. Just gotta read when they're gonna stagger/cancel.
Few weeks ago Deoxxys was laughing how KingGambler did that to beat him. I can't nail it in practice mode so I really don't get how it works lol.
Are y'all sure it's 212 and not 124? Cause 1 is faster.
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Worth it tho to stop him from wanting to use F2.
Yea. Typical Skarlet introducing a new layer to the mind game. I love her so much.
Never actually seen it, thanks.
I suck against Skarlet, I dont know how to deal with her and she seems so damn safe with tentacle strike being safe with huge pushback. So I labbed her, and I remember seeing Jacqui being able to reversal kick Cetrion between Natural Barrier and its amplified version. So, I decided to test it out with f43 into Tentacle, and she can consistently reversal between the 3 and tentacle. It's a fullcombo punish if it's baited, but if it works for f43 it probably works for every cancel as well. But then again, it forces Skarlet to let go of her tools that make her so dominant in the neutral as well
Just remember that Skarlet also has a parry that can be enhanced to give her lifesteal. So F43 parry could blow that up.
I wreck most Jacquis, if i was a Jacqui player i would use the second variation to force Skarlet to move into my range. Very easy to zone her and keep her out and just tele away as u get closer to the corner. Blood ball and blood shot check her fast advancing moves then just lock her down and laugh
Its difficult to do in match, its basically on a read that they will do the string, highly recomend practice mode to get the timing, and gl online lol
Yea, F43 does not have much cancel advantage so you can literally just poke if she tries to cancel that string into anything (sometimes Blood Tentacle trades on poke). Heart Pierce can always cancel into parry though; low pokes will beat it of course as well as flawless blocking in the gap in F43 itself (if you have an U2 or U3 reversal that's fast enough to beat the parry).
I don't run into many Geras players at all tbh. With Skarlet it's usually Scorpion, Sonya, and Shang Tsung. Run into him more with Jax but even then it's usually a more hardcore zoner than Geras.
Lets just say i tried it a ton against gr8one the other night and didnt hit it once lol. I wasnt hitting the right buttons he would say lolI don't run into many Geras players at all tbh. With Skarlet it's usually Scorpion, Sonya, and Shang Tsung. Run into him more with Jax but even then it's usually a more hardcore zoner than Geras.
But who needs practice? Imma do this to the next Geras I run into. No practice mode at all
I wouldn't know what Gr8 says cause y'all fucks are never on PS4.
Fuckin controller hurts my brain, lets play tonight foo, ill pm youI wouldn't know what Gr8 says cause y'all fucks are never on PS4.
If I want space, I definitely end in tentacle. Unless it's a matchup where I don't want them fullscreen (Scorpion, Raiden, and a few others), my first priority is to always keep them as far away from me as possible, ha. Other than that, I do tend to go for Blood Shot conversions if I have the bar to spend on health regen or if I want to keep them close. Doing something like 212 F43~BF2 AMP is my go-to; less raw damage than 212 212 44~DB4 but the health gain brings the net damage to slightly higher (260ish damage + 35ish health back versus 294 raw damage; can't remember off the top of my head).