It's even at best.
6-4 In Kung Lao's favor. If Smoke isn't getting in your face, he's doing it right. He makes you screw up, and capitalizes on it.
i accept that lol
KL is Smoke's worst match up
kl blows up cyrax, has an advantage on csz, and goes toe to toe with sektor. sektor has the ability to make me mad. i offer no explanation, this is just my opinion.
Oh i was just about to ask for one because like i said ive never had issues against kl with cyrax, theres too many unfavorable situations for KL. Teleport is useless and hats dont do shit vs full screen nets and bombs. Blocked anything equals death. I ran through a shit load of kung laos at mlg. Tournament and kasuals. And i dont see the advantage on CSZ other than trying to lame it out, the match i consider 5-5 at worst for CSZ.
why are teleports useless?
Every teleport gets air grabbed, even instant 3. Armor teleport does as well unless you do the overhead for longer armor, but every character should just simply walk away once you see its an EX, then its just a waste of meter for KL. And if you feel balsy its pretty easy to d1 into full combo punish.
How many frames is air grab? I mean there are a lot of ways to set up the teleport and Kl shouldn't teleport too much anyway since cyrax punishes hard. But doesn't cyrax have trouble once Kl gets in? And Kl is the most meter building character imo, so it's not often he gets his combos fully in against kl.
thats true for the most part the only thing is the air grab has invincibility on startup even without wakeup, cyrax doesnt really have a problem fighting kl up close especially beacause of one hit death scare. As far as meter goes most cyrax players do not utilize his unbreakable combos. even if KL has 3 meters, hes going to lose 30% into a guessing game easy without being able to break, and thats just with one meter. 3 Meters can land close to 70% unbreakable. Meter isnt really scary to cyrax anymore as long as cyrax has meter himself.
I still firmly believe cyrax has advantage over kl for the most part. I do agree on kitana being 5-5 and sonya winning it. I think ive played cyrax vs kung more than anything in my life time lol
Kitana's matchup is tricky, it's 5-5 but it took me a long time to adjust, you can't poke that bitch back especially with those poor pokes kl has.
Can you name some of the best Kl's you've ever played? or even the best kl?
Perfect legend (Online and Tourney)
I think you misunderstood the post, Smoke is never supposed to rush down or get near Kung Lao.
i love when they start firing bombs at full distance, usually thats when i can counterzone, advance or teleport. same with full screen net. at full distance im waiting for the projectile because in my experience thats my window to get in and do some damage. i feel safe at full distance and i like to be in your face. mid screen is when im uneasy.
Kung Lao is one of those characters that is mainly based on player skill just like kabal. Any match is winnable but not guaranteed. Until I fight a Kung Lao that makes me feel helpless ill continue to play it out the way I have.
