Ignorant! I'll address each point separately.
As will I. It appears you have taken personal offence to what I have said, as it is clearly a knee jerk over reaction about some online forum beef you have with certain EU players, but you cannot freak out in detail with everyone closely associated with them, but here we go...I guess.
Mustard, Ketchup, A F0xy Grampa, Nicholas, Hidan, Metzos, NIvek to name a few, there are not exactly ''CaliMaestro'' But they will do.
The fact that his elbow dash is his only good way to get in actually makes spacing more important.
Infact, this quote helps my point. The only way to space is use the dash, it is a 6 Frame move that is lightning fast, and if you have the space, will create opportunities in an instant. It is not only a fantastic punisher, maybe the only one you will ever need with Reptile, but it also creates opportunities on wiff, no other character in the game can do something like that in such a short range.
You can avoid jump ins that way, but
Again, thats my point. It's not necessary to employ anything else.
Being creative with meter building isn't really a trait that any character has.
Yes, it is. But Reptile can build meter very simply by throwing out spits full screen, or slowing the opponent down with Slow Acidballs, none of these are on their own meter building tactics, they are regular gameplay moves that BUILD GREAT METER, wiffing Dashes creates good meter, Standard JIP strings create massive meter. Other than those mentioned, Reptile does need to do much more than the standard to achieve results, I.E, playing through the fight. Infact he creates so much meter so quickly that you had an
ready to go with only 25 seconds of the fight being played.
If you want to get into it though, Reptile can do things like : 3 2 1, d3, 3 2 1 xx Acid Hand. There are a million ways to stagger his strings and build more meter / potentially hit the opponent.
None of this I disagree with, nor was it up for contention, but my point was, it isn't necessary to do so.
From here I will use a video of literally, the first Reptile fight I came across with a simple search with your name attached it from YouTube, to help explain exactly what I mean. You appear to have spent effort breaking down my post, so I only feel it justice, that I do the same.
- I will use only the first fight for the examples, I don't feel I need to watch the second fight to address Wonder_chef.
First of all, are you telling me that 10/10 times a Reptile dash won't be punished? What kind of players are you playing with... In my playgroup, any blocked dash is punished 100% of the time.
At 2:26, Your dash goes unpunished. ''100% of the time'' Your own words.
And assuming that you are against competent players, the fact that Rep's only 6 frame move is extremely unsafe is more of a weakness than a strength. There are situations where you literally HAVE to take a risk to get out of pressure.
For something that is a weakness and risk you performed it THIRTY FOUR times in three rounds. Whilst I agree with you, this bolsters my point, that instead of Spacing, Poking, Jumping, Punishing on reaction without a special, getting out of strings, these can be replaced by dashing alone.
Here is a list of times that you performed this dash at all key intervals through out the fight.
ROUND1:
1:44, 1:47,1:48, 1:51, 1:54, 2:03, 2:16, 2:20, 2:26, 2:35, 2:36, 2:40, 2:41.
ROUND2:
2:55, 2:58, 3:09, 3:11, 3:14, 3:15, 3:18, 3:21, 3:23, 3:30, 3:31, 3:32, 3:33, 3:41 (grabbed out of wake up dash)
ROUND3:
3:37, 3:58, 4:20, 4:28, 4:38, 4:34, 4:42, 4:43
All these moments requires specific actions, but the dash special move appeared to cover them all.
Apparently you are playing against TERRIBLE players.
Again, this is just you taking things personally, in a way I was hoping no-one would, and you are lashing out with something that is no more than an assumption at best.
Honestly if you feel like you're getting away with stuff for free, you probably just aren't playing people who are good enough to take advantage of that.
You can refer to the link to your fight, considering, your comment is again an assumption about me, and from the footage, highly contradictory.
Reptile takes tons of fundamentals, especially considering the fact that he has a terrible dash and a terrible uppercut.
This ''Terrible'' dash was used by you 34 times, and if it is indeed a ''fact'' that is ''terrible'' and ''more of a weakness than a strength'', then I just don't see how you can have the stand point that you do for the dash in comparison of how you actually use it. And the ''Terrible uppercut'' was attempted a minimum of seven times.
I don't believe there will be any point saying anything more on the matter. That is as sensible as I can make it.
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