Tech The Stock Market Returns: Post Final Round Edition

[Dizzy]

Oh GGA 16 Bit -- meant to add one more thing:

Stock in Top 8 prediction threads, is way, way, way, down.

Like, well below KT Smith and Enron levels.

No. I bailed that stock out.

 

[Showtime]

Red Reaper

Lol you right, sonya with a just in case reptile lol

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[CrimsonShadow]

No. I bailed that stock out.

Ah, Dizzy-san. Your bracket-fu is impeccable, and your stock specifically is up.. But this cannot outweigh the malady of 1000 mostly busted predictions

 

[Chongo]

LBSH Reptile isn't any lower then 13th on the list.

 

[coolwhip]

Gga having 3 top players like 16 bit, dizzy and wafflez is just crazy, best team at the moment?

Reo being absent at tourneys is actually good for the community and has allowed other people to get into top 4 and win tourneys. It would be much more hype if reo stayed away for a few more months and came back to show he is still arguably the best.

also not to blow PL up but he was playing the jax matchup like he did at mlg colombus, I dont know what happened.

I love PL but he played that match-up absolutely awful. Maybe because he only plays online and has been practicing hard for characters that give him trouble, and kinda neglected this match-up in the process but I'm not even sure this was an excuse. The oddest part is if someone asks me "how do you play against Jax with Kung Lao?" I'd refer them to PL's match with Tyrant at EVO. It was so weird seeing him play like he had no idea what to do against Jax after he was one of the first people to figure out the character last year.

Kung Lao blows up Jax, and there's no reason to ever teleport against him. Just zone, D4, use a lot of 24 overheads, F3's, zone again, blow up his strings with 21 and win the match. Obviously it's far more complicated against Tyrant but still...

 

[16 Bit]

Think what you what about me and my character Idgaf dude. You don't play him so you don't know. You can talk about rep being top ten because you don't know how to block and punish dash all you want. But all the top players I have played can.

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I have a good success rate punishing dash. You're missing the point.

 

[Briggs8417]

I have a good success rate punishing dash. You're missing the point.

At this point I really think you are right.

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[KingHippo]

Why are ppl making it sound like if you hold block Reptile is forever boned to just get punished? It's like all there is is a robotic knowledge of frame data with no feeling or intuition. That's the UK's gimmick.

 

[ragnar0kz28]

Kabal: Stock down. Only appearance of the burned one was LOTF and Scar's shitty alt Kabal's getting their backs blown out. Someone needs to bring REO out of the moth balls to remind us all how broke Kabal is. Since the death of young Giuseppe the MKC has deluded itself into thinking other characters can actually win tournaments.

Yeah, What happened to REO did he quit? long time no see him play in tournaments.

 

[Briggs8417]

Why are ppl making it sound like if you hold block Reptile is forever boned to just get punished? It's like all there is is a robotic knowledge of frame data with no feeling or intuition. That's the UK's gimmick.

Guess what reptile can do to open you up if you just duck block and block overheads on reaction? Throw and nothing.

Edit: KingHippo you can stagger strings but they are easy to see and interrupt.

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[Phased]

reptile has a couple of bad match ups, but does fairly well against most of the top characters in the game, save sonya. there isn't an excuse for not being able to win with reptile.

 

[Mr. Mileena]

Guess what reptile can do to open you up if you just duck block and block overheads on reaction? Throw and nothing.

Edit: KingHippo you can stagger strings but they are easy to see and interrupt.

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Stop downplaying Reptile.

 

[KingHippo]

How could it possibly have gone unnoticed how many free jumpins you are able to get as Reptile? Between having an incredibly powerful fireball that Reptile can use as a shield and the fact that, as you have mentioned, ppl will block to avoid dash, you're going to be landing a good number of jumpins. Considering the current meta game (scare em on the ground so you can jumping) this makes Reptile an exceptionally powerful character. Somehow, only Christopher Gonzales, in his bug eyed salty glory, realizes this and blows up top guys on the regular despite giving approximately two shits and a popsicle about MK.

 

[Chaosphere]

Guess what reptile can do to open you up if you just duck block and block overheads on reaction? Throw and nothing.

Edit: KingHippo you can stagger strings but they are easy to see and interrupt.

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I hate getting thrown a bunch. It makes me want to hit buttons, in which case the previous force ball shit starts hitting me. That or I get thrown a million times.

But that's just my experience when fighting against him. You'd think Raiden could just teleport, but the forceball game doesn't let me teleport if they set it up correctly.

 

[Phosferrax]

KingHippo so you're saying Reptile has to jump to win?

 

[Red Reaper]

KingHippo so you're saying Reptile has to jump to win?

Having options doesn't mean it's the only option.

 

[KingHippo]

No, rather, he gets more jumpins than anyone in the game and effortlessly sets them up. He's a nutty char that you have to play like a nut; just like KL and Jax.

 

[Red Reaper]

Red Reaper

Lol you right, sonya with a just in case reptile lol

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Do what Jeremiah did. Used the OP Character and then snuck in his other character when he kould.

 

[Phosferrax]

I feel like there was a lot of jumping going on at FR, I don't necessarily agree with the mentality that jumping is a good idea. Wafflez showed what happens when you jump at him.

 

[KingHippo]

Well get over it. Holding up is a big part of the game, and Tommy made as much a use of it as everyone else did. It's not jumping like an idiot, but many chars have scary enough ground games that they scare the opponent into blocking, then the game begins.

 

[Phosferrax]

Well get over it. Holding up is a big part of the game, and Tommy made as much a use of it as everyone else did. It's not jumping like an idiot, but many chars have scary enough ground games that they scare the opponent into blocking, then the game begins.

That is not highest level of play then. One of the reasons Tommy was smashing shit up was because if you left the ground, be it a cross-up or a jip then you got hit. If someone jumps at you there is plenty of time to react and punish, being nervous or scared and wavering is not the highest level of play.

 

[16 Bit]

That is not highest level of play then. One of the reasons Tommy was smashing shit up was because if you left the ground, be it a cross-up or a jip then you got hit. If someone jumps at you there is plenty of time to react and punish, being nervous or scared and wavering is not the highest level of play.

There's ways to jump and blow up his anti-air and anti-crossup. It's one of the things that gives Tommy the most trouble.

Jumping is godlike in this game.

 

[Phosferrax]

There's ways to jump and blow up his anti-air and anti-crossup. It's one of the things that gives Tommy the most trouble.

Jumping is godlike in this game.

What ways are those?

 

[TheTetraSpirit]

What ways are those?

JK. Very few AAs that can compete with that

 

[16 Bit]

What ways are those?

Deep jump kick and jump kick.


Once people respect your jump ins that's when you start dashing up and playing your game. That is the high level meta game for many characters.