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I think Smoke was broken and I use the character.
I think Smoke was broken and I use the character.
....or as the Smoke community has called it for years, balanced.
Sounded like some typical westcoast bullshit #Kappa
I think the main reason Smoke wasn't broken is because his reset isn't that reliable and you can't really practice it like Cyrax's. Smoke's reset is dropped half the time. If there was somebody who could pull off Smoke's reset consistently 100% of the time without fail off of any smokebomb, that would be pretty ridiculous lol
We have the reset down that isn't the problem, I hit mine much more than 50% of the time when I was playing. Smoke is awesome and close to broken in terms of the game (hell maybe he is broken in terms of damage). He murdered more than half the cast IMO. The problem is that in a tournament you are going to end up in a group of characters that are your worst MU's outside of Freddy (but there aren't a huge amount of Freddy's). I am talking Kabal, Lao, and Sonya. The characters he absolutely murders are not the ones you are going to be playing. His lack of armor also hurts him in some of his harder matchups.
Cage sucks for smoke too IMO
I think it is a 5-5, but honestly I mained Smoke and Cage and I liked playing the MU on the Cage side a bit more.
So Smoke loses to Kabal just like everyone does. He also probably loses to Kung Lao and Sonya. He does well against Cage, according to you, Cyrax and Kenshi. He beats Freddy and Kitana at least 6:4. He destroys every other character with the exception of Jax and Reptile.
Good Cyrax's weren't jumping in this matchup. They were using the anti-air throw to close the gap. Smoke could still anti-air this but there wasn't as much risk. Smoke has good footsies for sure but LBSH Cyrax's D4 was freaking broken. It was +16 or something, and led him into really good rushdown pressure in the MU, command grab guessing game, 12 into other pressure that can be confirmed into net. Cyrax didn't just have damage, he had massive UNBREAKABLE damage. It is not as simple as saying damage is equal, especially when Cyrax had the option to confirm into EX net, and rob meter for breaker/resets when those were critical to have in this matchup.
I do not agree that Smoke loses to Kabal like everyone else does. He loses worse IMO, Kabal wrecks his game in the same way you tear about Smoke wrecking Freddy's. So you would then just say Freddy loses to Smoke like everyone else does, right?
Wafflez' win at FR was completely earned by facing and defeating the opponents that he ended up with how the brackets were setup (i'm not saying collusion or any of that).
I wasn't talking about the actual mu of Smoke vs. Cyrax. I was just comparing tools in general against the whole cast.
True, Smoke is dabesssI wasn't talking about the actual mu of Smoke vs. Cyrax. I was just comparing tools in general against the whole cast.
I will argue that Smoke's footsies are better than Cyrax's though. As long as you keep a low profile against Cyrax he can't get that juicy guessing game off his d4. If he hits you while ducking then he's at disadvantage and can't follow up with the 12/command grab guessing game. You can't do this vs. Smoke because of b2. Not to mention Smoke's smoke bomb will randomly hit you more than Cyrax's net in footsies.
Your right about unbreakable damage and the meter drain. Which is why I'll say Smoke is just on par with Cyrax and not better than him.
