Eddy, I'm a Cassie main that liked her for d4, b1, b2 and iaGuns, not the safe 50/50) It just seems that if your opponent wants to play read-heavy offense and is at the same time a competent player, you have to be super solid and super ready to counter whatever dirt flies your way. Which is of course more difficult and sometimes even frustrating than swinging back with your own offense. I actually wonder if MKX will live long enough in the competitive scene for the neutral oriented meta to be accepted. Kinda the way it happened in sf4. Where offense was also strong enough, but in top32 at EVO they played cautiously and if they didn't - they got hit hard)
SF is a game where you are awarded for spacing correctly, it doesn't really matter the amount of fire power you can gather, a good defense would reward you a win even against highly skilled players, MKX doesn't have a defense as good due some factors that overpowers the offense game
Backdashes are weak, slow, lack good invincibility frames worthy of costing stamina
Jump attacks have way too much active frames, some are even plus on block and allows 50/50, pseudo safes on whiff, little to no risk on jumping since its hard to stuff, the fact that you just throw it out making someone fear just of seen you in the air is terrifying.
some long range normals that can linked with launchers or long reaching launchers are safe on block, some are plus
d1 low profiles anything.
some characters with easy offense game have good d1s with fast recovery etc etc
a little done down on how further advancing string reaches, jump attacks needs to be clipped a bit, 50-50s too, backdashes need better invincibility or better traveling speed with better recovery
NRS needs to equalize the defense mechanics of the game to be as good as offense, then we have game IMO.
. Great vid.
