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Nyaa

Let's fighting love
Local casuals yesterday and I got to play a ton of offline matches against the better players here. Even in MoS, Ermac feels like a character that can dominate the air very decently. JIP and JIK both give confirmable combos on hit either you hit them on the ground or in the air. Using flight to lure opponents to jump in so you can punish them with teleport. Jump in > vanish shenanigans. Very good damage on AA's with full combo with meter from D2 or full meterless combo from D4, which is not to be underestimated.
 

Nyaa

Let's fighting love
D2 > ex lift > F4 xx soul ball > jip F21D4 > jik xx teleport > F4 xx lift = 37%
D4 > 222 xx soul ball > jip F21D4 > jik xx teleport > F4 xx lift = 38%

D2 is easier to hit with but doing ex lift afterwards can be a bit hard and requires some height.
D4 low-profiles Ermac a lot so in some cases both chars whiff.
 

KamikazeJD

Makes women fap
Im at NWM and have matches at 10, so, we will see how that goes. I feel super comfortable with mystic and hope to show u guys he can be viable still.
If i win one match he's viable. Lol... Shenanigans ftw
 

Fusion_Quake

KH Fusion
have you guys found a way to utilize the games generic option selects with ermac? if they already got patched out then nvm, but my xbox hasn't gotten an update in a while...
 

KamikazeJD

Makes women fap
Man, you hit a lot of overheads but didnt convert any of them. these would have been 35%+ combos with MoS.
First round was hype though! :> <3
get 'em in loser's man
That was the first jun ive fought. I was clueless, but i couldnt convert for shit. I dropped everything.
The coldest part is i had to playb2 consecutive matches in ggxrd and ended up getting dqd in mkx! They played me!!! But, im not mad at dink. They shoulda spaced the games out more.
 

Error Macro

It April yet?
That was the first jun ive fought. I was clueless, but i couldnt convert for shit. I dropped everything.
The coldest part is i had to playb2 consecutive matches in ggxrd and ended up getting dqd in mkx! They played me!!! But, im not mad at dink. They shoulda spaced the games out more.
Really sorry that happened to you. Loved the pressure at the beginning of your match tho. Dude blocked low on you like crazy.
 

Dope Dojo

The Bomb Diggity
can one of you try this to see if its possible I can't seem to get it to work. It might not be possible. F2 d1 2, 222 soul ball, burst, njp, 22 ex lift, ji3, teleport, d1 , lift.
 

Klesk_1

RIP Grundy
To anyone who can help... been using Ermac (Mystic) and I'm having issues with the Kung Jin Match up.

My primary problems VS Kung Jin is that silly over head he does from air. I don't know the notation, but it combos with his divekick. Anyways, seems to beat out my options... all the time. I've even attempted to back dash and punish with telelift... but the recovery is too fast, that or my whiff punishing needs work.

Also, he has a low move that leads to huge damage... Again, don't know the notation. I can't seem to find a good answer for this.

Anyways, I want to gauge the opinion on the MU. Anyone else having issues?
it's quite punishable, i normally make the read, block and open up with 222 lift into whatever. i don't know if it reaches, you can try it out yourself but i guess the best solid punish would be b321 as even if you miss the timing a little it's still fairly hard to block.
 

TheGlow

Retired Noob
General inquiry, but what options does Ermac have on wakeup? I've tried to tp or ex tp, I get stuffed. Ex blast, I get hit.
I started having partial success with a backdash but in the corner that probably isn't going to work.

Also when I was Mystic I had no problems teleport, ld1 to tk grab. Yet as MoS I usually can't get the bf+ball out after that d1.
 

Dope Dojo

The Bomb Diggity
If you're getting hit out of ex force Blast, either they are using a quick 2 hit string to beat the armor. Or, they're low profiling under the blast with d3, d4 etc. Or you could be missing the timing.
 

zaf

professor
Can someone see if they can find any option selects with b3?

Im trying to get b3 on block, and on hit b3 teleport

using this video from ultra david

Doesnt seem to work
 

Temjiin

www.mkxframedata.com
Is EX DB2 Ermac's only armored move?

Doesn't 5% feel quite paltry damage, even for a safe special?
 

Dope Dojo

The Bomb Diggity
You get armor on Ex Teleport on Reversals I believe. In Mystic you also get armor on ex TK Push.

Problem with Ex DB2 is that you can low profile under the blast if you know its coming.