It’s too early to say for sure, but Labrys seems to hate fighting Liz. Labrys can kill her in 2 combos, but she has to actually hit her -_-. I also believe she has ways to get out of some of Labrys’ better traps (just from them escaping in matches) but I need to test that further.
I get the feeling Labrys might be bringing up the rear on some of these charts.
What I personally think the matchup chart is currently for Mitsuru:
Aigis: 4-6
Akihiko: 6-4
Chie: 5-5 or possibly 4.5-5.5
Elizabeth: 7-3
Kanji: 7-3
Labrys: 6-4
Naoto: 6-4
Narukami: 5-5
S. Labrys: 5.5-4.5
Teddie: 5.5-4.5, possible 5-5
Yousuke: 6-4
Yukiko: 6-4
DAT 5A.
some of the earliest stuff I have seen and played against I have to say I see teddie as a top tier character the rest are pretty balanced the only one I dont really agree on is Akihiko he has the highest damage in the game but suffers greatly against any character with any sort of a projectile and a good keep away. He does especially terrible against Naoto and Kanji. Noato’s traps shut down his rush down and Kanji’s grabs make it a guessing game on approach. He also suffers on his persona abilities his jump C and standing C are powerful but can be easily dodged and broken and his gravity can help characters like Teddie and Kanji with strong approach moves. If you do use him I advise stacking meter and abuse his jumping B loops with meter he will be able to use ex weave which gives him invincibility and ex corkscrew(for more damage and invincibility). Oh and during kill rush if you hold back B it becomes unblockable but if a enemy hits you it can be stopped.
@ pfhor that pic…so awesome.
Im sorry, but Akihiko is far from being A tier. I have been playing him like crazy, and I can say out of the cast, he’s probably the worst character in the game.
Allow me to explain. He has no cr.LP as a low attack. His only low attack, is his sweep, meaning he has less mixups. All of his combos are dependant of his bar, but so is his ability to get in.
Name me any one character, and I can tell you why he utterly FAILS against him.
Also, @Zerog, thats not true. Kill Rush B cant be charged. You’re talking about his Hook. And it is useless to charge up in a fight, anyway. At least its useless to get in, unless you use a charged Ex Hook that absorbs damage, which has to be done after a kill rush or something else, so there is plenty of time for the enemy to evade, break it, or whatever. Every character in this game has anti rush down options. And he is the only pure rush down character. You do the math.
Any matchup that doesn’t show at least 6-4 in her favor is wrong. The character is seriously retarded.
Also S.Lab with only a 5.5 in Mitsuru’s favor? How do you figure that one?
Mitsuru is good, but she’s not that good.
Says the Mitsuru main. She certainly doesn’t lose to anything, and has all the tools necessary to deal with any situation. The fact that she can play however she wants (zoning, rush down, ect) should be proof of that.
mitsuru only slightly tough match up is aigis.and mitsuru vs narukami is definitely even. she is good, but people are overreacting if they feel shes good as aigis. although she isn’t far behind her at all.
edit: i do disagree with QED mu vs chie. mitsuru wins that 6-4. chie gets bullied at neutral and mid range. and mitsuru damage is just about comparable to chie’s in certain situations ( fatal counter, which isn’t hard to get with mitsu ). chie must work hard to get in and stay in which is hard with mitsu’s 5a. 2a. 2b. J.a, 5d, 2d, and ofc, her A/B droit which is excellent for setting up her frame trap game. chies saving graces are the fact she can low profile 5a pretty good, but that loses to a few things such as sweep which can get mitsuru started. i feel chie is only at advantage when she knock mitsuru down, especially in corner where her set ups get even stronger.
I believe Aigis and Teddie are considered the only bad matchups for Mitsuru, with Narukami being 5-5. Chie is definitely not favored versus Mitsuru.
As a Yukiko player, I feel like she’s disadvantaged in most of the matchups (except against a couple who is bad against zoners in general).
S.Lab has quite good oki setups against Mitsuru, unblockable throw resets against her which you must call out with a DP, she can call out Mitsuru’s block strings safely with her DP since her Persona can cover her DP after with a punch and put you out of punish range, hitting the Persona causes hitstop making Coup punishes or reactionary actions against Coup easier to react to, etc. The matchup is still in her favor definitely, because Mitsuru has to only guess much fewer times than Shadow Labrys has to, but she has more tools to deal with Mitsuru than the other 6-4 matchups, so I gave it a 5.5
I call the Chie matchup even mostly because although she gets bullied in neutral, Chie has amazing tools to whiff punish Mitsuru’s horrendously slow recovery time on whiffed pokes. And when she’s in and starts pressuring, the biggest problem is that she has very little answers normal wise to jump cancels (I tried testing it out online when I IB’d the sweep, hoping to get a free 2B afterwards, wound up getting CH’d D:) and SFxT dash A pressure. 2A and Sweep low profile, so relying more on 2A cuts off most of Mitsuru’s high damaging options. Her Oki pressure isn’t bad as long as you delay your tech, but the fact that her block string pressure is really good scares the crap out of me in this matchup specifically. I feel like you have to do a high risk call out in order to get out of it, which is something I don’t like relying on during matchups.
I am not disproving that if anything I agree completely in most of the major tier list Akihiko is dead last or at least the ones I have seen. I wasnt talking bout his kill rush being charged but his boomerang hook during the kill rush if you dont use it constantly it can at times catch people off guard. Also despite people saying his C is useless I find his jump C to gave some interesting zone options.
@Zerog Akihiko is certainly last, since has the least tools to “get in”. There isn’t a single character I can call an even match against in this game. Well. Akihiko, I suppose.
And his j. C is certainly a good tool since its a fast overhead, but its not hard to punish when blocked. Considering a lot of characters have attacks like that that arent as easy to punish, I’d say it’s still not good enough.
I love the character, from both the series and this game, but having lost my 80th consecutive match since reaching A+ and dropping back to C, I am growing tired of how helpless he is in** ALL **matchups.
Someone on Dustloop had a good point about the overall balance… those in the cast who are supposed to be zoners have weak defensive options (Elizabeth, Yukiko), the supposed rushdown characters have weak mixup potential (Kanji, Akihiko), and the all around characters have no real weakness at all (Mitsuru, Teddie).
I’m fucking around online with Teddie and winning a lot of matches just by randomness. He’s one of the better characters for sure
Kanji definitely has mixup potentials. At the very least, high-low mixups. And if he corners you, he’s unstoppable. Try to jump? Get air grabbed. Try evasive maneuver? Ground grab. Hop? Chair attack to air grab. R-Action? His grab AND his own R-Action go through them. Stand still for a sec to assess the situation? Grab, grab super if awakened, etc. He also has a bunch of options to “test the waters” before doing anything.
I agree that Akihiko is far from A-tier and I think he might be bottom 4. It’s too early for me to say for sure. I think his mix-ups are actually not that bad. You can easily make opponents fear the low option if you show it to them enough. His ex dash cross-up is impossible to react to. He is very dependent on meter to do things though. My biggest gripe with him is his normals. They aren’t bad but seriously lack the range to compete with most of the cast.
to me labry is bottom tier due to the fact she has no real advantage except the ability to build a sub resource around her axe level that can be cross over to rounds. But her axe level is not very consistent so she has to commit to certain style which make her very telegraphic at times. Besides that everyone else can do what she does better.
I don’t know, fatal counters are a big part of her game and she can get them from many random hits and convert into huge damage. I don’t think anyone else can do it nearly as well.
Akihiko is far from A tier in my opinion. Teddie is definitely not A tier either if you ask me. Also, I firmly believe Yukikio is way underrated. I main Mitsuru, but I’ve had some real success with Yukiko online. Plus, Yukiko is so much fun to use.
The punch(I assume you mean 5C and not the qcfx2+C punch super) can’t save Shadow Labrys after a blocked R-action unless it’s done way early, which you won’t get a chance to setup if Mitsuru is in your face. Also players with reactions will cancel their strings into R-action if they see her R-action. At low level play, everything you say might work because the players don’t recognize a lot of things.