sorry to be slow, sometimes the ‘new responses!’ Thing drops threads and I miss 'em for a while
I mean no move I know of gains armor late in its duration. Armor you seem to have from the start, but it ablates, invulnerability you get for certain segments of the move.
Edit: from the looks of it there’s plenty of tme to follow up the wallbounce with basically anything you want (especially the shoulder one), its kind of a puzzle why they never did except with super in the demo vids. Also, flying kick as safe assist, interesting thought
Sorry man, they are doing it as I am still curious about wether or nor Raccoon or Nova will make a good 2nd or anchor on my team.
My bad for being so indecisive, sorry.
Also I really think a great alt for him would be a simple kungfu pants(fully covering instead of those long short shorts hes wearing now) and his headband, both the serpent and fist have been seen wearing them and would be great for their flavour, though I admit I’d love to see his regular modern day suit as the alt)
i’m thinking hsien-ko and iron fist may be a deadly combination. pick iron fists dark purple alternate along with hsien-ko’s dark purple alternate, do gong xx rimoukon (hyper armor), raw tag iron fist—now you have a hyper armored melee assist that can’t be pushblocked and visually hides whether Fist is going high or low forcing your opponent to guess block (possibly harder to see in dark stages). jc’able up-kick rekka will allow him to keep his offense going (jump-in, crossup or more rekkas) even if they successfully block, and keep him safe if his finisher rekkas are safe on block. throw in defense chi powerup to boot, then damage and meter powerups midcombo to pile on the hurt. maybe even throw nemesis on the team for another character who could be dangerous with hsien-ko, has his own crop of moves with armor, and will make even the highest health chars bleed.
The problem there is Hsien-ko who, even the most die hard Hsien-ko player will admit, is underpowered and very wonky to play.I see your point and could see it working but one has to think, what if Iron Fist dies or they snap in Hsien-ko?
Me I am still hoping that will be rectified much like the inclusion of spec mode, I mean at least they got to give us 2 colours so both players can use it right? and what better two than Fist and Serpent.
Now that I think about it, I wonder how effective his Dragon Kick is for AA. It does travel at a good angle, so it could be a viable option, but then again it looks like it doesn’t have the best startup.
it has like no invuln, and a ton of things stuff it (flying kick that is). Otherwise yeah, it lands offscreen more often than not, and has a super quick recovery.
I’m really starting to fear for Iron Fist’s tournament viability…watching the match between Justin Wong and Dios X at the LA Fight Club, it seems to me that Iron Fist has no options to get in whatsoever…
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Of course, I know this is only preliminary techniques and there’s really no character mastery over Iron Fist yet, but it’s painful to see that even though Justin managed to threaten and deliver the pain with Ghost Rider and Doctor Strange, his Iron Fist mostly got raped hard.
