Awesome. Thanks for the tip. I will definitely give that a go when I go online tonight and try to dish out some punishment to the random teleports, specials and standard strings that people just throw out.
Awesome. Thanks for the tip. I will definitely give that a go when I go online tonight and try to dish out some punishment to the random teleports, specials and standard strings that people just throw out.
Well big damage is what Raiden does lol, it covers up his other weaknesses to the point that talking about anything Raiden DOESN'T do well is borderline sacrilege.
Well I live in Philadelphia so I'm sure there's some type of MK scene out here. Off the top of my head I can only think of Summer Jam. Should I enter something like that to get offline experience or should I try to find another place to practice before attempting a major?
When I fight GM Sub I like to keep him at a full screen distance and play as defensive as possible. Then I keep firing Raiden's projectile to frustrate them. If Sub tried to put a ice clone up the projectile will break it. If he tries to hit you with ice balls just block and stand your ground since it doesn't do chip damage. At this point most sub players either try to jump over your projectiles which you can punish with Rising Thunder or slide in. If they slide in just crouch low and either throw them or punish then with f1b2xx ex shocker and throw them at the end of that or hit them with electric fly. Both options will create space between you and Sub-Zero and you can just repeat the strategy all over again. This works really well for me but I'm curious to see what other people do.
I use MoS a lot vs sub and it's working out pretty well. It can be very hard for sub to get in if you're aggressive with the orbs. If sub tries slide punishing your second othe he gets caught or it trades and still gets caught allowing you to followup. Even if he freeze punishes you for throwing a second he can't follow up, you're thawed before he can get in. If you use a beam on his wakeup he can ex slide and you get hit but he gets stuck and you can follow up for more damage than his slide did.
Summer Jam, East Coast Throwdown, NEC, Winter Brawl, all big events near you that you should be attending.
What happens if you follow up with ex db3? Does it not pop them up enough to continue with anything? I have minimal experience on TG variation (because I'm hard headed and want to prove displacer's place in society). It just seems like wasted juggle ending after one spark cancel link without another pop up juggle.
You can, but unless you are going for the kill it is not worth it in my opinion.
I agree, it would be nice to hear from the community what the strategy is for this match up. I want to say TG for summoner and displacer for puggles but I am no expert on the match up at all.
I suppose two of the big QC questions are:
I Want to start using master of storms. It really is his most fun looking variation.
For online the best strategy I have found is to try and close the distance. I always run up on him to avoid the overhead and low demon which they will constantly throw at you when there is a large space gap. Dont allow him to get a large amount of space on you and whatever you do dont try and get in a zoning battle with your lightning. Dont even use your projectile on characters that can teleport on you is what I have found. A projectile once in a while is ok to bait a teleport, but dont try to do it more than once. If you can put pressure on them constantly up close they will go for the teleport or slide so be ready for that and then punish. If you get them in the corner and start dealing damage they will most likely ex teleport on wakeup to get out so after a big corner combo I start low poking with d3 and prepare to block the tele in case they teleport. If I get a few hits with that and they dont teleport go back to the b2 overhead and keep working on corner damage. I play scorpion myself sometimes, and inferno scorpions biggest weakness is when he gets pressured and looses the option of using the demons. All of this is easier said than done against a good inferno scorpion player though LOL.
Immediate b3,2 hold will beat wakeup armored staff after shocker or superman.
Adding to this, after superman immediate b32hold will beat almost every wakeup. B32hold after shocker has less hit advantage but still beats quite a bit off wakeups
Cool thats exactly what I was looking for. I think people are catching on to raidens overhead starter in the corner so the b32 hold seems to have some strong advantages if it stuffs a lot of ex armor wakeup attacks as well. If they dont ex wakeup it still adds good presure and if they block high can still get good damage in the corner with it when it connects.
I always thought so. Raiden always gave me the feeling that his design was supposed to be TG= offensive presence; Displacer>zoners; MoS>teleport/divekick
