There isn't a female character which her playstyle attracts my eyes yet, mean while i'm really looking forward to scorpion.
the things i'm going to do with this character, so far has some very good stuff and there is also a down side in a few things according to the last data (PAX and Casselman)
The ability to cancel his teleport has been confirmed to be on any of his variation
Hellish Spear hit stun was nerfed (i will show this with a comparative video later)
But still:
Ninjutsu variation give scorpion a command overhead, a command launcher, aside from his usual strings, with the ability to cancel his teleports and hopping over low attacks with a (bonsho kick) roundhouse kick the mixups out of resets will be very good, not only that his ranged attacks are also good.
This variation seems to be the only one with the overhead starter, so playing vortexes with this scorpion is almost the same as in MK9, due the low and overhead mixup
Hellfire has more options for chip damage and actually switch between mid range and close quarters kombat, the flame aura increases his damage and chip output, while in this same variation he is capable of cancel his strings into flame ball (hell ball) which can be dash canceled or let it rock. not to mention that his tele also doesn't have tracking so in good spaces scorpion should be able to cancel his strings into teleport safely against characters or variations that don't have long range tool.
Inferno is more of zoning, but scorpion is still scorpion, teleports and tele-cancels are still there, low starter is still there, and he has a few more tools on his arsenal like the summoning who seems to be designed to limit oponnents options to move because his demons will be all over the place, so its more like cyrax in MK9 where his bombs were all over the place and forced ppl to throw projectiles to limit this option, but when that happens he was ready to trade with his net which the capture times is much longer than a projectile hit stun.
However, Hellish Spear used to have a longer hit stun, even full screen you could have time to run, teleport and still hit them, but on the pax updated i noticed that this hitstun has been reduced, now scorpion will only gain a pressure or maybe none if his hellish spear hits full screen. Which makes me think, maybe whoever tested was getting huge advantages from hellish spear traps from full screen, besides of being two bars of meter, was probably making some crazy setups from the hit stun midscreen or corner.
Or it could be the other way around, the new hitstun up close possibly increased his mixup option during close quarters with the jump in punch or, empty jump into B3~Spear combo, or B32 tele-Cancel mixup in case they block the mix correctly.
