Huh, really? Thats a first one, lol.
Dragon roar is -3 with awkward blockstun and 2 hits of armour, really weird hitbox that hits behind him.
You can njp on read but you spend so much time closing liu kang down its annoying you have to just half give up your oki pressure to punish him.
Dragon kick is safe versus most of the cast and impossible to punish on whiff very quick also.
Kang builds so much meter in MU's where he can zone especially with his pressure meterbuild on top. So you're playing bo rai cho, you eat about 7-8% guaranteed chip in fireballs half the time then you cant oki or pressure cause endless safe armour
Its not something he needed AT ALL. He had good armour prepatch they gave him a 7f d1 with a great hitbox and then just slapped on random unnecessary armour for shits and giggles.
You constantly have to do bold as fuck njps and jump backs against him to deal with that move which is not what you should have to do on knockdown vs a character with great zoning and pressure.
Becomes a guessing game of:
Njp for dragon roar: get hit by bicycle kick or dragon kick which can be converted to decent damage or he just backdashes and you've lost your oki which you just worked your ass off for.
Stand low unblocked for bicycle: dragon roar, low fireball blow you up, backdash you loose oki
Crossover: dragon kick hes gone or aa full punish, dragon roar pushes him too far for a punish, bicycle is sort of punishable sometimes.
Stand crouch block: dragon kick safe or 0 on block and you have to guess if he will d1 or block. Dragon roar -3 try to get your d1 in first with weird blockstun. Backdash, your pressure is gone.
Sorry for the big writeup.
TLDR, risk reward for liu on knockdown is annoying, u have to make huge risky reads AFTER A KNOCKDOWN to deal with a character who has great zoning and pressure.
By the way might be the first u heard it but a lot of folks i talk to agree
Maybe its just that my characters suck ass vs liu. But he seems to be able to endlessly throw out armour like mk9 kenshi
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