Wasnt streamed. But I beat him at ECT back in may
Cage beats Sonya 6-4
Same with Kitty. Fuck kenshi.
Kenshi does not lose to Shang. It might be even, but if anything, Kenshi has an advantage. Shang can't pressure him unless Kenshi has no meter (which is never), and Shang has no way out of the corner against him.
Wow.... really. Don't be like that. Yes you are an amazing mk9 player, but you have also been known to downplay and to hate cage as a player personally.... You don't see how your number could be off? But okay let's talk about it. What tools does cage have to fight this match as a 4-6? i will say that on really small stages it could be considered 4-6. I have no problem with saying that. Btw seperate discussion, but i saw that you said noob could be tough for cage. Imo that is in cages favor. Up shadow is not that hard to deal with because he does not really have anything to follow up with.
i do know about the red kick there, huge tool I agree. Why is kabals d3 not good enough to poke out? Everyone else in the game does it. Plus he has fwd4 which you can cancel into a mixup or ndc to stay safe if cage tries fwd33, and you always have ex nomad dash and flash parry. Kabal has some of the best escape tools in the game tbh. Maybe instead of just trying to just zone, kabal should play footsies with ndc and iagb and saw, and keep cage at bay that way some, that seems to be more effective. If you just iagb all day, 6-4, if you control space with all your tools, 7-3, thats my opinion. But I would love to see you prove me wrong in all honesty, and if I am I will fully admit it.
so your saying cage kabal is 5-5 unless is rooftop is 6-4 kabal???
naw man no way. I think is 6-4 kabal in any stage. Rooftop 7-3. Remember though bad matchups are always winnable
Do you still think Kabal should be banned?
Havent we gone over how sets like that have no effect on matchup numbers? I beat the kabal that eliminated GGA Han (just trying to show that he is not a total scrub, not blowing anybody up) consistently as cage in this matchup, does that mean it is in cages favor? But anyway, yes play the spacing game. Cage is scary, but kabal has iagb, saw, ndc, fwd32, fwd4, etc. He has the tools to be effective. If you play it outside of cage's effective range (basically jump distance) he has to basically shadow kick to try and get you to block, or move forward to try and corner you. If you get him dashing (or even walking really) into you, you can do a string into a mixup, pressure him some with ndc (probably not worth it, but I guess it depends on your opponents tendencies....) find a way to reverse positions and start zoning again, etc. Basically the goal is to control cages movement so that if he moves forward kabal get some sort of offense or reward, but if he moves back, he can't do anything because he is johnny cage.
