Haha ya, Moe definitely skews the MU numbers and he is so much fun to play. Pretty much everytime I lose against him I am just outplayed and still feel like I have the better tools TBH. He wins every freaking air-air trade I feel like...
Good Ermac players know the true distance of TKP and calculate back dashes. As you say Ermac may whiff the TKP (which indeed it's like lights out against smoke) what if you misread and throw a smokebomb when you should'nt? then, you are are also eating half your life. Ermac has no problems getting the space he needs and there's no smoke away-forwards because most of the time TKP beats em.
Sektor has many tools to make the MU even IMO especially being able to blow up SB and stuff standing 2 AA into a full Jump kick combo. Sonya has got to be 7-3 she shuts down almost all of his tools when up close. I agree how bad kabal and kl are. Kl is a winnable match that's probably 7-3 or 6-4. Kabal could easily be 8-2 and not a lot of people want to admit it. You have no options in this MU except to guess lucky and wait for kabal to screw up. And if xblades and wafflez grind out the LK MU I bet wafflez will see it being in Kangs favor easily. The more and more Smoke gets explored and opened up the more people will see he is not taking majors anytime soon. It's a blessing if he even gets top 8
I think it's slightly in ermacs favor. If the ermac players knows when to poke back and knows when to TKP than Smoke is in trouble. Plus with Smokes huge hitbox it's not that hard for ermac to pressure Smoke! Zaf and Seven tore through KT Smith. I've had great matches with seven before but it always seems I'm fighting his game since ermac has better spacing and range
Lol but it's the truth. Cage, Lao, Kabal, Kang, Sonya, And Jax all give Smoke problems. It's annoying for Smoke. Now that people are finally learning to stuff b2 and never block low Smokes having more trouble at high level. It depends on a players style. You 16 bit have amazing footsies and poking that's why you and wafflez have such great games. Your without a doubt the best kitana period but your play style is what Smoke as a character is great at. What beats Smoke is crazy aggressive rushdown and not letting him breath. Players like Chris G, Perfect legend, Tyrant blow up smokes because of the crazy style they have. However that's why the lose to cage players and you blow up cages. Some people just know how to fight certain characters themselves because of the style. I knew wafflez would beat CDJR because CDjr is probably the best footsies player period. That's what Smoke excels at. Learn when to deal with that and Smoke isn't the terror some think he is.
Xbox. I have no clients Thursday playing some Smoke mirrors would be tight. Ill hit you up. Lol I don't downplay him I'm just honest at where he sits. 10-12th because of how bad he loses his bad MU's I even think KL isn't as bad as Sonya and Cage. Smoke is good it's just once a player figures out where he is strong than exposes smokes weak points it's really not much Smoke has left. He's way too limit with predictable strings and very few of them. Even CDjr finally saw how bad smoke can struggle.
I mean Sektor is taking huge risks by trying to blow up standing 2 anti-airs because if Smoke blocks and punishes the tele-port Sektor is screwed. Sektor can't zone, yes he has a 6 frame jab but just don't throw a SB up close... LBSH Smoke wins this MU
I hope you held onto that badge...
A Smoke can be really lame and literally beat Baraka from full screen and just smoke teleport away once he is in.
Yeah, I think CSZ is actually not too bad against Smoke. It might be 5-5 maybe 6-4 because of the damage. And ya, you have to play Baraka super lame, blade charge is great in that MU though.
Well Smoke has no low starters, so ice parry is really good here, plus CSZ own rushdown is pretty decent. You can divekick over smoke bombs on reaction, however, a whiffed or missed slide will get CSZ blown way, WAY up. Ice ball is practically useless in this match up.
Yep, that is what makes the fight tough against a really good CSZ. Usually I can get a pretty good read on when CSZ's like to do their parry and bait it out.
wat.jpg Also, from fullscreen only an idiot would throw a TKP. Ermac doesn't need to be unsafe neither.
Once you get in blade charge range you can punish every smoke bomb you see. I wouldnt even uses EX blade charge, I would save meter for breaker.
Ya, the CSZ fight is pretty awkward and uncomfortable against really good ones. I've played a few really good ones online (long ass time ago), and remember it being way easier with Cage.
What isnt way easier with cage, except kenshi perhaps?
hah, ya and Freddy. Normally though as you go lower in the tier list though Smoke can really do whatever he wants a lot of the time but it isn't that way with CSZ.
Standing 2 him out of divekicks though, his ice bombs are shit and your wakeups will avoid his setups into them. Turtle him and sit on life leads, he really doesnt have that many ways to open you up, if your getting hit by ice parries its because you are playing recklessly and not using staggered strings into grabs enough. 3d1 grab is nice in this one.
