Oh I agree, it’s not a great anti air, but it does kind of play into his yomi game. Once you’ve got them freaking out about buster ticks and high low stuff you know they want to backdash or jump out, and then you start with the psychic Heat Knuckles… and then they start crying.
Yeah, I don’t think the backdash cancelled mappas help too much against Pot either but I might be wrong.
I don’t mean to make any illusions that this isn’t a hard fight for Slayer, he does have to try hard and play very different then normal. I just don’t think it’s a ‘free win’ for Pot, either really. I think the Japanese rank it at 5/5 because they assume a top level of play where a Slayer can play that different style that’s less susceptible to all the easy busters, and maybe even use some moves wisely that punish buster attempts (like Slayer’s 6K, that kinda thing).
You don’t get what I was saying to begin with. 6K has upper body invincibility FROM FRAME ONE. You can use it to counter a LOT of Johnny’s pressure game 'cause it goes through moves you’d have to block otherwise.
Uhm…you can chain 6K into just about anything, which makes it totally safe. If he chains into K or another low and you try to jump, you get hit, even with instant block. No reversal for you.
And if I was talking about wakeup to begin with, I’d care about what you were saying.
Yeah, 'cause like, even though 236P is safe, why would a Slayer player EVER want to use that? I mean, come on, what a useless, safe alternative to 236K!
Not meaty j.S, unfortunately. That’s 100% safe against anything with invulnerability on wakeup, but it doesn’t nullify reversal backdash as a means of getting out. If you reversal BDC and just don’t do anything, you should be safe if Pot anticipates some kind of retaliation.
KY IS THE WORST GUY IN TEH GAME. ARGH I HATE THIS BS ABOUT HIM EVEN BEING A MIDDLE TIER CHARACTER HE IS NOT…
Anyway potemkin owns ky…
Big fireball on wake up is iffy vs potemkin, potemkin could always backdash of course unlike other character potemkin is liable to go through the whole fireball lol. Also say ky does something like sweep big fireball frc run into start pressure 6+k will also go through big fireball wake up so boom into potemkin buster.
None of this really stops you from doing sweep into big fireball type shit but its there, so something ky has to watch out for.
Ky does about the least amount of damage out of every character in the whole game, against potemkin with just about the highest defense period this sucks even worse for ky.
Fireball poke strings also get iffy, As even if its not flicked, potemkin could have always been chargeing while blocking the string and then into the charge move to go through the fireball to hit ky.
Ky is the widest character ducking in teh game, potemkin can do combos vs ky that he can do vs no other character in the game and in many situtions.
blah im getting bored of typeing… Anyway potemkin beats ky period.
As AKA said, Pot isn’t top tier for the same reason Testament isn’t top tier: He doesn’t have enough guaranteed stuff, and he doesn’t have the speed or mobility to make up for it. However he still has good options and deals a ton of damage.
(Jacksonville) Jeff’s Eddie rushes down an awful lot, even without Mini-Me. Most Eddie vs. Pot is just Eddie waiting until Pot screws up, and then killing him.