Question Who is a good secondary character for a Reptile main?

[Tokiwartoothxdk]

*Comes into thread to put STB Chongo on blast, see's he is already on blast, closes thread happy*

 

[Chuckychuck]

Your bad MU's are Cage, KL, Kabal and Sonya. So pick one of them or Kenshi are you're good to go. I go with Cage personally.

 

[G4S MinotaurLord]

To reinforce the obvious, my secondary is Kenshi, but I've also picked up a few other pocket characters for fun and/or bad matchups. The most useful out of them have been Cyrax and Skarlett. Cyrax is effective against characters who don't want to spend their meter breaking, and Skarlett's armor is useful for getting in (I find her matchup against Cyrax easier than reptiles, which is a match I don't really like). But yeah, Kenshi, man.

 

[Gesture Required Ahead]

Jax...#YOLO

 

[EGP Wonder_Chef]

Kenshi is definitely not a good choice.

Kenshi and Reptile share a lot of the same trouble matchups, specifically:

Cyrax
Lao
Freddy


The only bad matchups that Kenshi covers are really:

Sonya
Cage
Mileena (Potentially bad for Rep.)


If you want to cover nearly all of Reptile's bad matchups, your best guesses are going to be:

Cyrax
Goes even with Sonya, but beats most of the rest (except Kabal, but I feel Rep can potentially handle him)

Kabal
Beats or goes even with nearly everybody, so that one is kinda obvious.

Liu Kang
Goes at least even with all of Rep's bad matchups as far as I can figure.


Slightly less optimal choices:

Freddy
Aside from Lao, can handle/beat most of Rep's bad matchups. Cyrax may be a problem. Possibly Mileena too.

Sonya
Goes even or beats most of his bad matchups aside from Freddy. (And Freddy isn't very common.)

Kitana
Loses to Freddy. Arguably loses to Sonya, but nearly as bad of a matchup as Reptile vs Sonya. Does real well against all of the other matchups. (And again, Freddys are rare.)




That's what I figure at least.

 

[Peckapowa]

liu loses to freddy for sure and he loses to sonya 6-4 and possibly cage and/or lao(i think they are both even but if there is an advantage its not lius, lao feels close to a 4-6 and if cages gets on liu more than once or twice then liu is done) so hes a decent backup but freddy is bad for him for sure, probably a 3-7

kenshi is a good backup if you are good at the lao matchup and u shouldnt be backing up for kabal.... then there still is freddy.

 

[EGP Wonder_Chef]

kenshi is a good backup if you are good at the lao matchup and u shouldnt be backing up for kabal.... then there still is freddy.

And then there's Cyrax.

That's a lot of shared bad matchups between Rep and Kenshi.

 

[Peckapowa]

And then there's Cyrax.

That's a lot of shared bad matchups between Rep and Kenshi.

i dont hold the opinion cyrax beats kenshi