The Need Help Choosing Main/Secondary Character Discussion Thread

[MrProfDrPepper]

Cybernetic kano or cut throat kano is probably the most footsie heavy character in the game so you are good with your character choice, so congrats dude glad you found a character for you

 

[chores]

maybe ferratorr

 

[Baconlord]

dvorah's down 4 and f2 are great pokes and in venomous she gets a lot of millage off them.

 

[AdaptiveTrigger]

Well if you don't want to use Kung Jin, D'Vorah might be the character you are looking for.

 

[SaltShaker]

Using Kano atm, but curious if there is greener grass out there, so to speak. So any thoughts?

Grass doesn't get any greener. Enjoy.

 

[PANDEMlC]

Dvorah, Sub Zero, Kung Jin, Kano, Kotal Kahn, Scorpion and Liu Kang. Go with those, all have some good footsies.Not so much Liu or Scorp if you want the equivalent of Chun, they have fireball cancels and scorp has a vortex. But they all have good normals and excel at footsies.

 

[bdizzle2700]

Dvorah or kano really. I main kano and his space control and pokes are pretty good. You just won't be opening up ppl all the time. Dvorah might be better if patience isn't really your thing

 

[just_2swift]

Kung Lao has great pokes f2 is a long reaching mid that can be canceled into spin for a full combo b3 has long range but not as much as f2 since it advances him forward. D3 is great and is +15 on hit.

 

[ruff321]

If you like long range pokes, you should give Goro a try

 

[Briggs8417]

How has reptile not been brought up? His normals are like top 3 in the game imo.

 

[haketh]

Cybernetic & Cutthroat Kano & Boneshaper Shinnok sound like what you want

 

[Phantasmagore]

Long range + fast startup. Which character?

 

[GLoRToR]

How about Cassie?

 

[Zoidberg747]

Grass doesn't get any greener. Enjoy.

Venomous Dvorah gets greener

For real though, Venom Dvorah can take almost half of someones life with just pokes as each one does more damage than the last. She is the best footsie character in the game, bar none.

 

[xInfra Deadx]

Greener grass? If so, Reptile might be calling your name.

 

[juicepouch]

Goro's range on pokes is fantastic and his f3 is one of the best normals there is

plus he's way cooler than all these non-shokan characters

 

[tatterbug4]

How has reptile not been brought up? His normals are like top 3 in the game imo.

Reptile is very fast and has great normals. But his force ball set ups aren't what they used to be. Almost everyone can escape them

 

[FOREVER EL1TE]

Great ffootsies:
Liu Kang
Cassie
Kotal Kahn
sonya, if she touch you once it can be game
Spacing:
Kung Lao
Cassie
Kotal

Imo

 

[SaltShaker]

Venomous Dvorah gets greener

For real though, Venom Dvorah can take almost half of someones life with just pokes as each one does more damage than the last. She is the best footsie character in the game, bar none.

This is actually very true.

 

[dribirut]

Kotal too

 

[TheIrishFGCguy]

If you want a chun li (i.e. a character with a completely ridiculous neutral jump and pokes that seem to beat out absolutely everything your opponent tries to do), then Kung Jin is for you.

But if you're really insistent on not using that stupid character then I would take the suggestions here and go for D'vorah. She's a very strong poking and footsie orientated character like Jin, although she actually requires a degree of thinking.

 

[Briggs8417]

Reptile is very fast and has great normals. But his force ball set ups aren't what they used to be. Almost everyone can escape them

What does that have to do with footisies?

 

[RoboCop]

Just play Sub Zero. His d4 is amazing, and he's an overall strong character that completely shuts down his opponents' footsie options.

 

[Predannok]

IMO KOTAL KAHN beats all of the listed d1 6 frames mid and d4 6 frame low poke, fast forward advancing normals f1 is 11 frames with deceptive range the f1b2 range is unmatched. In WarGod he gets even more range with hes sword attack. Just watch MR. Aquaman vs Sub zero.

Edit: i forgot to mention f2 though its kinda low with 18 frames startup

 

[Vintagesoul]

Dvorah has better pokes. Cassie has better walk speed and whiff punish.

Both are good choices depending on which aspect of the footsie game you prefer.