1: Cage flipkick and Kano upball not being punishable enough, especially online and by characters with slow strings. Powerful anti-air wakeups with invincibility, near instant startup and that travel half the screen would be super punishable in any other 2D fighter, but in MK9 they're near brainless because the window to punish with something other than a throw or uppercut is too small for many characters.
2: Speaking of brainless, Raiden's teleport. Unpunishable startup, cannot be stuffed in any way except for MAYBE Stryker's instant hitscan guns, but I'm not even sure about that. Raiden's teleport epitomizes brainless. "Oh, they're throwing a projectile while I'm waking up. *Teleport* Oh, they're jumping in on me. *Teleport* Oh, they're trying to be offensive on me. *Teleport*" Raiden's teleport is punishable after the startup but then he always has the option to Electric Fly afterward and fuck over even the fastest strings. The only reliable way I have to counter Raiden's teleport is neutral jump punching. The move is so brainless I feel stupider every time I see it.
3: More brainless shit, Kabal's projectiles being unstuffable. See:
4: Kung Lao's Spin, the best, most versatile move in any fighting game ever made. Acts as a parry that launches for combos, covers his entire model with invincibility to all normals, ability to interrupt blockstrings because of near instant startup, cannot be deep-jumped over like Nightwolf's hatchet, Noob's upshadow, etc., not punishable enough by characters with slow strings, especially online. A move this powerful should be ultra punishable on block or whiff. I'm talking Mileena roll/Smoke teleport punishable.
5: All the bullshit of Cyrax. 80 to 100%'s, losing at least half your health off any landed net which has 5x the hitbox of Sub-Zero's freeze, and he can do it while taking away your breaker. Stupid to the max. Oh, and nets that hit you in the air hang there forever, unlike Sub-Zero or Cyber's freezes that drop you out of the air in 2 seconds.
6: Reptile's elbow dash startup being fast enough to punish almost every frametrap in the game. It's even fast enough to interrupt some strings before they finish, like Cyber's 332. This is pretty much the only reason Reptile is a super character. He, like Raiden, can get out of almost everything and punish almost everything.
7: The many glaring inconsistencies with move properties and balance, for example parries. Some parries can be countered by sweeps, while other times the exact same parry will successfully counter sweeps or lows, depending on the character doing it. It's hard to tell what's supposed to be what in this game with so many inconsistencies and no record/playback function to test in training mode.
8: Compatibility packs not being mandatory.
9: Every new patch bringing a host of new problems with it.
I've been playing this game just about every night since release, and I got very good at it... but I probably won't be playing it come October when KOF13 comes out if all these problems remain in place. I just don't see MK9 as a polished or even good competitive fighter at high levels anymore. I hate to say that, but that's how I feel nowadays.
and when you go into a game knowing full well your playing against someone that doesnt have a clue what there doing and its laggy and then you lose knowing full well you shouldnt of its like.... seriously f*** off man! lol
