A few things I’m pretty sure didn’t get mentioned:
Sweep. If the person is sitting crouching without blocking predictibly, you can just sweep. Even if its blocked its safe (talking about cage). Sweep is very underutilized by most people, its not the best move in the game but it lowers you’re hitbox a lot and beats out lots of stuff.
Against some (if not all characters) you can punished a blocked uppercut with shadow kick. Training sucks so I obviously can’t test it extensively.
Cage is quite good at punishing predictibility and unsafe moves.
One key to this game is being flexible in your playstyle and strategy. If play like a robot and react in the same way to every situation you will get blown up.
Man I don’t know why you’d have so much of a problem with online scorpion. I purely play online to babality people. You just need to learn how to punish people on stuff. You can uppercut scorpion out of his teleport and you can cr 1 him out of his ex one. You just need to harass these scrubs by playing lame. p.s. I hardly ever block in this game.
I was like that too until I realized i hated losing to terrible people. So now i utilize my blocks. I still get babalities, not a problem with most of the trash online, but that one lucky sob will beat you and piss you off.
That’s true, Ive lost to some scrub scorpions because of it but honestly I like to challenge myself online and even in person. I’ve babalitied my friends in person and people in tourneys so yeah.
U guys think that the fact that the game seemly doesn’t make sense makes it hard for ppl to take it seriously? I hardly see much love for this game. i hope it grows bigger. But I’m having trouble understanding. Something like street fighter is easy to understand with spacing and mind games. But MK is like a mix of that and marvel and yet it still doesn’t make sense. I remember Aris at Wednesday fights was like there are no footsies. The reason why i watch it is the cheap stuff but at the same time I don’t like cheap stuff. lol. Its a flashy game. Its an agressive but it seems mindless almost. Its not much mindgames once u get in. Its like once they get in they stay in. Zoning is really hard to understand as well since fireballs go through. IDk. Can u guys find a match an analyize it for me that has all the juicy spammy goodness? Its really hard to understand the mindgames.
SF is only easier for you to understand becuase it’s what you are used to.
Mk, is not mindless and it is not random, and saying something is cheap is the motto of the scrub. you post on SRK, you should know the playing to win articles pretty well.
Not dissing mk. Just based on my observations. Like after a couple of days the hype for mk just died and went to AE and marvel. This games got the cheap and crazy and footsies. It was kind of prredictable. Yeah I agree of course that its not random I like to understand why but I’m just saying it looks like a spam fest and a get in. I think thats the prob with mk. Ppl see sf and its easy to understand someone punishing a whiff normal. That’s the problem right? Ppl don’t understand MK like sf. One character that I don’t have a problem with yet but i’m pretty sure I will is Subby. He’s my favorite character to watch because its like Dhalsim. I think I get him. I don’t have a problem with him yet bc the players that use him aren’t dirty and cheap enough. This game is all about the cheap stuff. It’s like marvel but not as hype which is why i’m so curious that it doesn’t catch on or its slow.
MK just takes a different mind set and it also a good idea to learn different characters and use the hidden cursor option. Some characters just don’t do well against other characters. Johnny Cage has some really good mix ups and gets alot of frame advantage, I don’t personally use him but I have the hardest time winning against him. ( I use Jax and Liu Kang)
As far as Raiden is concerned he can easily be sweeped after a tele, just work on your block game to help you accomplish it. Sometimes its easier to spam up and down while holding block to get through heavy strings. If you understand the combo you can pretty much block through alot of them. The only problem you’ll be facing is the grab, i’ll post a video on it later. Mileena’s tele kick can be punished, shes another character you might want to try blocking often against. If you Stand block it shes left spinning in the air and can be punished.
Also be aware that everyone you face may not be a scrub. After a while some people make new accounts so their w/l ratio doesn’t scare off newbies, while other might just be having a hard time pulling a combo off on you which may force them to stick to simple two hit strings. The easiest way to get around it is either find that combo and use your record option in tranin mode to figure which one of your strings will beat it or go through the ladder on the highest difficulty (3 rounds) and work on getting your combos in. Not all of them will use the same combos you face online but you’ll get enough experience and better understanding how on to get around alot of these characters.
If you got some kind of capture card it would be interesting to see some of your fights, maybe we could better assist you on your gameplay?
So I mostly play tag. Any there are some weird sheez happening there. I think there are unblockable set ups if the next character comes in after death? What u guys think about tag mode?
Btw. Trying to prove that i’m not the only one who think that this game can be random is this quote from KYMK pre-EVO podcast. Around 7:30 mr. enraged talks about randomness because the 3-d and suggests there should be hitboxes. I don’t what most MK players think but I welcome it because i’m used to that. I don’t think it should necessarily go. I haven’t watched the whole thing and Idk what Tom Brady says about it but watever. What u guys think? U guys have any random moments?
Tom Brady talks about 3-d collision and randomness.
How’s the match up for Johnny cage vs Mileena? I lost horribly against a good player using her. I just can’t do anything. I tried to punish the telekicks but some instances its safe and its hard to juggle catching an opponent air to air. I tried to get some advice from this player but he cared too much about winning. I was like dang ppl care about winning on mk online. Anyways I kept playing. I played this person before. I can’t do anything. I was just dying from blocking. He built meter from the block damage to do the ex telekicks. If the telekicks hit, it puts me in a stagger state. I can poke him out of his block strings with a down 1, but he’ll just telekick. Mileena can just go crazy. This match up was like the worst out of the other characters i faced.