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Since when? This is news to me...
Since when? This is news to me...
It's been 1.5 years and we still have yet to make any solid placings at tournaments. LBSH, the only times a Smoke has done decently was Wafflez at Seasons Beatings: Summer Slam and Seasons Beatings: Ascension; both of which should be considered more of a local than they were actual majors. Even I got EVO points there, wtf? Obviously free and not real competition. Then there's xSMoKEx's claim to fame of almost beating REO a few times, and Gross almost taking a game off (i think it was) 16 bit. Some Kitana, idr. Point is, after all this time nobody has been able to make waves with this character in the same way nobody has made waves with Skarlet. How can these characters possibly be high tier or even tournament viable if, after all this time, nobody has been able to perform with them? Wafflez, xSMoKEx, and Gross are all excellent players in general and should have been able to do more with Smoke than they have currently. It's not always the player behind the fighter.
Kabal, Sonya, and Cage are all still bad MUs. A Cage at Dizzy, F0xy, or CURBOLICOUS' level is much worse than any Kung Lao. Much worse.
I agree that Cage at a high level can be a problem for Smoke, but it is not anywhere near KL in my opinion. I have played against Dizzy and Forever King and KL gave my Smoke more problems. I am not sure who you are playing in these MU's.
I used to play FOREVER KING and F0xy. But maybe the game has changed since then, so my MU knowledge is outdated. lol.
For me cage is much harder than lao at the highest level simply because he is so safe compared to kung lao.
That. lol.
He used mostly Jax though IIRC.
He beat reo with smoke. he did not win the whole tournament with smoke, that's still attributable mostly to jax.
I think he used Cage cause he had trouble with the Jax MU at the time.
LBSH man, MK was starting to get to be a counter-fest during MLG and CDjr didn't use Smoke almost at all during that tournament other than in Grand Finals because REO was looking for an answer for CDjr's Jax at the time and went to Cage.
That's the GGA motto, ya bunch of character specialists.
Not everyone has a scene that meets 2-3 times a week for practice to iron out these hard matches. For us whose offline sessions are rare between tournaments, character counterpicks become a must as it is impossible to train matchups at the highest possible level. People are so excited to have the opportunity to just play with other people IRL that grinding isn't feasible. You aren't wrong, but your methods don't apply when you can't even play most matchups at a representatively high level. It's not like the best kitana player in the world is my roommate.
