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General/Other - Ravenous Why I feel Ravenous is Mileena's best variation.

Which variation do you feel is best with Mileena (excluding recent tournament results)?

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haketh

haketh

Champion
Did the patch make it so the Bite Ender combos more consistently? If so I'm probably gonna start messing with Ravenous more, weird it didn't combo like the Piercing Stab ender did.
 
spor

spor

Lord Raiden, Khanum Mileena
I have been playing piercing mainly because that's what i first learned and never bothered to learn ravenous. But, I do find the lack of overhead annoying and was thinking of picking up Rav.
 
Blonde_Huntress

Blonde_Huntress

Edenian Witch <3
*Looks at Tremor*

You spout nonsense!

What does he say to her anyway? I've tried several times to figure it out but I can't understand him lol. No wonder she says that. :p
 
Rickyraws

Rickyraws

This mean you don't like me?
Congratulations @YOMI RM SaltFace for your showings at EVO. Echoing what most people said, your Mileena is a joy to watch.

Great write up, I know exactly what you meant in your explanation. IMO most people gravitate towards piercing because it is hands down the best LAG-centric varation online. I myself use piercing whenever I can feel a little bit of lag during the character select screen, and I have no shame in doing so. If my opponent was able to see me I would look them in the eye as I did so. As for Ethereal, I think the variation itself should be removed and replaced with one labeled 'MK9'. She loses the variation specific strings and specials, but instead gets a d4 that hits full screen.

Again, while those who prefer piercing are well within their right to come to that conclusion, I think those who think piercing is the be all end all are typically those who play her online, where nothing, not even her roll is punishable. Where as offline you get blown up as soon as you see her cartwheel animation get blocked.

Dramatization:



While she isn't faultless by any means, I enjoy the fact that she's got more than one variation that can compete at a high level. Also what no one can disagree on is that her MK1 outfit ALT colors is better than the default.


Fact.
 
GLoRToR

GLoRToR

Positive Poster!
Online it's still piercing, not sure why. Ravenous is really the best by frame data and tools.
 
YoloRoll1stHit

YoloRoll1stHit

Publicly Educated
When I first saw Ravenous frame data I was surprised a lot, "wow, they really give her a safe special move". But I think all normals canceled into high pounce has a gap before the pounce, everyone can back dash to dodge the pounce. It looks like recovery of high pounce and back dash are pretty equal so she's still safe
 
carrion4worm

carrion4worm

king of the underground
Phenomenal day 1(tm) Outlaw Erron Black and Ravenous Mileena player approves of this thread. Some Erron players still believe in Marksman much like Mileena peeps like Piercing...but they are only superior in a few (somewhat undetermined) matchups at best...zoning options just do not outweigh Pounces and Stabs and such...this is, after all, very much an 'in your face' type of fighter. Props for repping @ EVO and even more props for landing some YOLO F34... combos lol! Just kidding, of course...it was "great spacing"!
 
ZeroEffect

ZeroEffect

Warrior
Well I'm still hoping for a standing 3 overhead across all variations.
Rickyraws said:
Again, while those who prefer piercing are well within their right to come to that conclusion, I think those who think piercing is the be all end all are typically those who play her online, where nothing, not even her roll is punishable.
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...I'm gonna assume troll first with this one.
 
SaltFace NS

SaltFace NS

Ultimate Mileena Exterminator
Juxtapose said:
Since day one, I've always felt Ravenous was her strongest variation. The Pounces are so useful and great enders.
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When I started originally with Mileena I was a Piercing player. SonicFox & I mirrored one day online & we talked about Mileena. All I had to see was that Ravenous had the -7 High Pounce, the meterless overhead option in Low Pounce, & lastly that it did more damage than all the others. I knew then I had to play it.
 
Juxtapose

Juxtapose

Master
YOMI RM SaltFace said:
When I started originally with Mileena I was a Piercing player. SonicFox & I mirrored one day online & we talked about Mileena. All I had to see was that Ravenous had the -7 High Pounce, the meterless overhead option in Low Pounce, & lastly that it did more damage than all the others. I knew then I had to play it.
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Ah. For me, Mileena and Kitana were my mains last game. I started proper with Mileena, and then moved on to Kitana.

For this game, I was thinking of going Kitana first, but the Mileena Kombat Kast, once I saw her Low Pounce and how much of a "troll" move leap frog would be, I knew Ravenous Mileena was going to be my first main for the game.

Haven't regretted it either; having lots of fun with her.
 
llxPeeKABooxll

llxPeeKABooxll

Noob
Blonde_Huntress said:
*Looks at Tremor*

You spout nonsense!

What does he say to her anyway? I've tried several times to figure it out but I can't understand him lol. No wonder she says that. :p
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He tells her she is "reborn in the dream realm". Hopefully that means Mileena really isn't gone from MK projects in the near future, but it does sound ambiguous enough for NRS to just do whatever they want with Mileena in the future (include or exclude her from games and what not).
 
Juxtapose

Juxtapose

Master
llxPeeKABooxll said:
He tells her she is "reborn in the dream realm". Hopefully that means Mileena really isn't gone from MK projects in the near future, but it does sound ambiguous enough for NRS to just do whatever they want with Mileena in the future (include or exclude her from games and what not).
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We all know Mileena isn't perma-dead though. When has death ever been permanent in Mortal Kombat?
 
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