Who do people think Cheetah beats in the current version of the game so far?
Thoughts on Cheetah match ups so far:
Blue Beetle- People can talk about her being able to go under shield bash on wake up
all they want, but that option if blocked is punishable and he can also delay to beat it. He can run away from her for free because of his air mobility to the point that lunges can help, but they don't truly get him unless the Blue Beetle player is playing sloppy.
His diagonal air projectile blows up most of that nonsense and kills any hope of her turtling under projectiles. She has no answer whatsoever for shield bash on block, she literally just holds the chip and if I back dash, she cannot even catch me with forward 3 after, it totally whiffs. Command grabs whiff and down 3 only connects if BB doesn't back dash and there's limited incentive to stop him from jumping away, back dashing or doing another on block shield bash. This brings up the additional problem of: he outranges her in footsies and has better sustainable offense than her.
He can even mix safer than she can lol. You shouldn't be reliably opened up by Forward 3 and sweep does no damage in the grand scheme of things.
The only place she actually has something to work with is if she can put him on his back, but that's a tall order given all of his advantages. Even with a huge life deficit, it's not hard for Beetle to come back on her whereas this is not the case for him.
I'm not saying it's terrible, it could wind up being 5-5, but I don't currently see it.
Cyborg: similar to the above where he has zoning that doesn't care about lunge and he can run away with grapples and she has a hard enough time chasing down people WITHOUT the mobility of Cyborg and Blue Beetle.
Scarecrow: Annoying, but fun and pretty even I'd say. Even with the wake up buff, she can still give Scarecrow the business on knockdown and he can't truly keep her out, he just stops her from playing yolo and careless versus him. Scarecrow has gaps everywhere and she has one of the best Forward 3's in the game so it's a no brainer to abuse versus his swiss cheese gaps because even if he doesn't complete the string it's your turn and you hinder him greatly.
I understand her weakness is neutral and Scarecrow's is great BUT if she can get around it, she can make him hurt and unlike the above characters, his escape mobility isn't particularly great.
The key to this match up is: you either get him to the corner and maul him or you get outfootsied and you don't. I see a lot of Scarecrow players salty about this match up, but I also see Cheetah players not liking it lol.
A strong footsie based Cheetah can hang with Scarecrow, it's a match up that requires a huge play style change from how she is normally played.
I've run a lot of sets with
@Chongo and it's a pretty even split most sets of me winning a set and him winning the set as well.
Swamp Thing: Very fun match up, I don't even care that he outranges her because she can get in fairly quickly and if she gets a lifelead on him, it can be very hard for him to get in on her since she moves around the screen so much more smoothly and quickly than he can. She pressures him good too because of his slower speed. He does happen to beat her range wise, but a lot of his options on whiff allow her to get in to start her shenanigans. This might be a winning match up for her, but we shall see.
Atrocitus: He just has zero problem activating trait versus her in many instances and locking her down with pressure. He also out footsies her and his back dash makes it hard for her to get a lot of her game started. Very doable, but she's gonna be working harder than Atrocitus.
