But who would you say could zone with her evenly? I just feel like she has all the tools to control the match but i think your right. Maybe the characters I use against her are bad Mus.
Well, Sub Zero is one of the better characters at navigating Mournful zoning, because you can slide under glaive (despite it being a mid...) As for Quan Chi and Shinnok, they should definitely be the ones outzoning Kitana rather than vice versa lol.
I can really only think of a very small handful of characters that have a really hard time against Mournful zoning - F/T is the first that springs to mind.
She's got way too many great staggers, plus frames and good mids to need an overhead starter. She would probably be a broken character with that shit
OK, so I've said from the beginning that she doesn't need an overhead starter, but I really wish folks would stop pretending that it would make her broken or overpowered if she did have one. Heck, I doubt it'd be enough to make her top 5,tbh.
Also, Kitana's plus frames really aren't that amazing. They're all either +1 or +2 on block, and depending on the character that doesn't even guarantee that they'll have to choose between blocking b14 or backdashing/armouring out. Now, don't get me wrong, 21 into mix-ups is an important part of Kitana's game, but there are so many ways of potentially escaping from it, and it's not nearly as overpowering as the run cancel and/or meter burn pressure a lot of top 10 characters have.
Frankly I think a lot of people still let Kitana get away with stuff that they really shouldn't be letting her get away with. d1~fan is a huge one - hardly anyone armours that. This is in spite of the fact that d1 is -10 on block on its own, so if your character has an armour move that's 10 frames or faster, there isn't even a guessing game involved - you can punish them for free! The holes in her wake-up game (assuming she isn't using Mournful) also aren't exploited nearly as much as they should be.
