Scrub Zero had an ice clone in both MK9 and MKX, which completely negated any nerfs thrown his way. NRS promised us a strategic, neutral heavy fighter without 50/50s, yet some characters have them. It's the same thing with the Kyrpt. Lies.
Good players will always mix their game up with throws, ice balls, and slides. A slide that has a crushing blow that always seems to activate at the end of close rounds. As of right now, it's almost impossible to block the overhead. When you do block the overhead, you're watching out for a slide, or his third overhead which also has a crushing blow. He's cheaper than Scorpion.
All we're asking is for Scrub Zero's overhead to be slightly slower. When I take my thumb off the dpad, I want to be able to block it. That's all. Maybe this wouldn't be that big of a deal if we didn't have a block button, but "muh tradition".
I have no doubt in my mind that your character will still be great no matter what. I just think it's funny watching the ninja playerbase get mad at NRS when you guys get everything.
Try playing hundreds of matches without crushing blows or an overhead and then winning. If I can handle it, so can you
To begin with, besides just playing Sub-Zero, I also play Johnny Cage, so I'm not sure why you assume that I can't or don't win matches without KBs and overheads. Johnny is my 2nd most played character behind Sub too, so I'm not sure where you were going there. You know what they say about assumptions...
Secondly, if you are in constant range of Sub-Zero's low, overhead
and throw, you've already lost the neutral game against him. Against Sub, you need to keep your distance - just beyond sweep distance, specifically. Any 50/50 Sub-Zero attempts from that range is a full combo punish on block.
It is your job to block it. As people have enumerated a billion times, the overhead is 19 frames with a very distinct animation that gives it away. And it's unsafe. Lab it for yourself.
Thirdly, NRS never said that there would be no 50/50s at all - they stated that the 50/50s were toned down, but they were still present. In just about every Kombat Kast, they made sure to mention the 50/50 options that the featured character would have. In MKX, about half the cast had an oh/low kombo starter, some of whom were completely safe while doing them. In this game, it's only one character and his overhead is reactable and unsafe; the low is good, but has much shorter range.
In MK9, Sub-Zero either lost to or went even with the overwhelming majority of the cast and was easily counter-picked. He beat Baraka, Stryker, Nightwolf, Kaon, Sheeva and Jade. Wow...If you lost to a Sub-Zero in MK9 while not using one of the aforementioned characters, you probably got out-played.
In MKX, he had the klone in 1 variation and though he was more dominant than in MK9, he was still just as easily counter-picked and was also counter-played. If you could stay away from the corner or easily get out of the corner, you automatically beat GM Sub because that was the only thing that made him good. The other two Sub-Zero variations lost to the same characters that beat GM, so Sub-Zero was beaten at the select screen by picking certain characters.
In this game, he doesn't even have an Ice Klone - and you don't hear me crying about it! I'm glad it's gone and I'm happier that
a.) he has better normals and strings because klone cancels aren't a thing anymore and
b.) the klone's replacement requires strategy to be used, but is every bit as effective as the original when used correctly.
You need to learn to make better reads and spend more time typing at NRS to fix its MK11 netkode and less time going back-and-forth with Sub players about how cheap/scrubby he is when he is easily one of the most overhyped characters in this game right now. The very best people playing this game at this moment all seem to recognize that Sub-Zero's 50/50 game isn't nearly as powerful as was postulated in the beginning and that his vortex (which I've stated numerous times should not exist and needs to be patched out) is far too ineffective against good players to win tournaments with. He keeps falling in every latest tier list as a result - the character is good, but nowhere even close to cheap/broken/busted.
Your inability to block high has absolutely nothing to do with Sub-Zero or his players in any form or fashion.
You need to stop whining and start labbing.
