@Angus: Thanks for stopping by at our tournament yo. Even though it was crowded as fuck I still enjoyed myself.
GS to Justin winning the MK PDP tourney. i’ll have to try to find the finals online somewhere…didn’t get to see the stream.
You mean the Kung Lao tournament? lol
I feel good though. I sat down with MK, tried the whole cast, found Kung and was like “THERE’S a strong character”. Then I said he was the best and people laughed at me, said he did no damage and had stubby arm range. LOOK WHO’S LAUGHING NOW BITCHES!
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So when’s the balance patch? lol
As if it wasn’t apparent like a month ago that Kung Lao was good
Hey man, apparently people didn’t think so when the game first came out lol. He has everything!
I wanna see the beast Kabal player people were talking about. All I ever see is like Lao, Ermac and Smoke.
I still don’t think Kung is #1; he’s that character that’s has quite a few dominant early game things that people haven’t learned how to deal with yet (SF4 Rufus). Once people start punishing spin, this is gonna be more apparent. Every single one of his non projectile specials are punishable by full combos, outside of teleport which you can uppercut on reaction easily. He’s definitely top tier and will remain so, but there are quite a few characters that belong in the discussion for #1.
Justin, on the other hand, is definitely top lol.
Yeah the teleport is either in reaction to something they do full screen (to put them into a mixup afterwards) or in anticipation if they fall into rhythm with something to actually get a punish. It’s just kinda meh. Dive kick is good and even if spin can be punished, so can a big majority of the things in the game, but it still completely negates people being able to jump at him and is a GTFO me move, which most characters don’t have, AND also turns any of his hits into a full combo. It’s just really damn good.
He’s just got tools for everything and the stuff everyone else does in close, he does great too. Only thing he lacks is a raw overhead he can combo off of. He’s got an overhead off teleport and the hat overhead but neither of those are fantastic or anything. Still, who needs overheads when you have throws and an awesome low.
Even if he is best though, it’s a close best. There’s some other really good characters too.
Personally I think Raiden is the best right now, but I do like me some Kung Lao.
I think the two best characters in MK right now are Raiden and Kung Lao, although I would give the slight advantage to Raiden cause he doesn’t have to take a lot of risks to be effective like Kung Lao does.
Cool hats = Top tier
LOL.
I cant only make it to one of the sessions before the tournament. So i’m just going to go on Friday sessions, so i can be ready for the tournament CRTs …Will knows what im talking about.
So are there gonna be any incentives for people to bring setups (venue fee waived, etc.) to EZ? I’m thinking of bringing my monitor, which, as people will tell you, is sexy as hell; 27" lagless HD beauty.
Ow shit, I forgot about equipment incentive. I’ll talk to the owner tomorrow during the session and see if I can make any player who brings in equipment get a free venue fee. What was the standard for Lucky’s?
I should be coming to EZ next weekend. I haven’t played 3s since Final Round, never bought MK9, and my copy of MvC3 is still in the shrink-wrap. This should be interesting.
Oh yeah in case you guys missed and need a boldcapsunderlined message about it…
***GATHERING AT MY PLACE TOMORROW SHOW UP BETWEEN 6:30-7:00 PM ME IF COMING AND IF YOU NEED DIRECTIONS THIS IS A RUN ON SENTENCE BUT WHO CARES GET TO MY HOUSE TOMORROW IF YOU ARE IN RDU AND PLAY MVC3 OR MK OR BRING A SETUP AND PLAY WHATEVER YOU WANT BUT DON’T BE DISAPPOINTED WHEN THE ONLY PERSON WHO WILL PAY YOUR SETUP ANY ATTENTION IS MY BIRD KTHX BYE. ***
I wish I could say that there would be an incentive, but speaking with the owner, he has made it clear its 5$ As long as we do not touch his equipment meaning only play on your equipment. He said he will go ahead and find 2 42" close to lagless LED/LCD he would allow us to play on during the tuesday/friday/tournament sessions. I wish I could give you an incentive Matt, but eveyone has been donating their setups while paying the venue fee. So I’d just want to keep it simple and have everyone pay the venue fee no exceptions. This relationship with EZ is still new, so I want them to make the most out it. If anything, you could bring your setup if you like and call it the Matt Money Kiosk and make it a personal money match spot as we should have enough to run the tournaments.
Any Arcana 3 / Tekken going on in Raleigh this week before the tournament? I’m down for games except for maybe Wed / Thurs (not sure yet).
I think the incentive to bring stuff is usually when you’re lacking setups. EZ has A LOT of setups.
That and the place is looking for money. We all can’t be ballin’ like Lucky >_>
I hope we can get BBCS2 involved in the EZ tournament next month. 80 Matches with John last night, marvel rust is gone. Session tonight in Cary and session Friday before the tournament, fighting game filled week.
New thread soon.
Wow did we really play 80? lol
I still can’t really settle on a third. I like way too many characters. Gotta decide on Dante or Phoenix for this weekend, tough choice. Maybe I’ll run dante on point if I ever figure out how to do DHC glitch reliably with him.