Which character(s) were you wrong about?

Elias6999 said:

I was wrong about:

Netcode
Netcode
Netcode
Online
Lag
Takeda being OP
Jacqui being good (she's being slept on though, very fun to play and underrated)
Hat Trick being good
Raiden being mediocre
Kitana Assassin being OP
Mileena OP Ethereal (lololol)

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You forgot netcode at the end!

I thought Erron Black would wear his hat more. I am dissapoint

Bird Lao X said:

Well he got buffed! That's like saying I thought Kenshi was bad lol.

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Well, I completely dismissed Buzzsaw in the beginning as well which really didn't change overall. I thought it just took too much execution to do the combos and deal the damage. I thought I might as well pick up another character and have the same results instead of working twice as hard.

MrAquary said:

Please stop. Just stop.

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Did I say something incorrect? Does Sonya not have an unreactable 50/50 into another 50/50?

things i was wrong about -
takeda - i thought for sure id be using lasher - nope...
i thought SR would be just as good as scorpions variations.. - wrong again
i thought jacqui would be better
i that diplacer raiden would be that dude - wrong
i thought id like erron black - nope
i thought Kotal would play/be like the season 1 thunder of MKX- wrong.
frame data would be correct
armor would work properly
people would get tired of seeing the same damn fatalities over and over again .

things i was right about -
Tempest lao being that dude
erron black having so many options

This thread doesn't mean much when it comes to our ability to judge the strengths of a character when SO MUCH of this game has changed since day 1. Saying shinnok was ass on day 1 was not a misjudgment.

BillStickers said:

This thread doesn't mean much when it comes to our ability to judge the strengths of a character when SO MUCH of this game has changed since day 1. Saying shinnok was ass on day 1 was not a misjudgment.

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Buff Liu Kang.

I thought I'd have mained the same guy I mained in MK9 (Reptile), I was wrong, they fucked him up.

I was wrong when I thought Kenshi with a teleport would body everything.

I was wrong when I thought Kenshi would body everything.

Wait a minute, we were wrong because we said Inferno Scorp is too OP?? He WAS OP, we were not wrong. He was patched so that his infinite was taken out

Displacer Raiden... granted this was pre-release but a lot of people were talking a big game about how 95% of Raiden players would use it. Yeah, let's give him a variation for mobility tools in a game where almost everybody has good mobility, including his OWN other variations.

Also why are people saying they wasn't wrong about Kung Lao because of the Tempest buffs? Buzzsaw hasn't been touched, may even be his worst variation (by default) now that Hat Trick has been fleshed out some more yet F0xy still made waves with it, hell some even tried to maintain that Buzzsaw was still better than Tempest even after the buffs for a while.

Besides, I was discussing this with Ketchup, this is just a theory, but I think the way Tempest's hat spin is now was supposed to be that way from the start, and it wouldn't surprise me if the testers freaked out pre-release, took away the conversion-ability and attempted to give him the 4 frame EX spin as some shitty compensation. It's suspicious how it was changed to 7 frames when Hat Spin was buffed...

Salad Petresky said:

Wait a minute, we were wrong because we said Inferno Scorp is too OP?? He WAS OP, we were not wrong. He was patched so that his infinite was taken out

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Salad Petresky said:

Inferno Scorp

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Salad Petresky said:

infinite

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SaltShaker said:

I was wrong about Netcode. I thought he would easily be a Top Tier character. Top 3 unquestionably. Even during one of the Kombat Kast they said Netcode was flawless'ing everyone in the back. I knew I would main Netcode for the entire games life pre-release.

Then the game came out, and Netcode was Bottom 2. Even characters who have been around since the Stone Age are better equipped than Netcode. I was hoping they would buff Netcode to make him viable but clearly they've made it known that he is the last of their priorities.

Hands down Netcode was the biggest shock to me and biggest disappointment. I couldn't have been more wrong about him.

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I don't know man... I was just in a match against him online, came down to the final round, both of us had about 15% health. I got the HKD, knew he would wake up X-Ray with that full stick of butter he had. I advanced in to bait out his WU and blocked accordingly. Somehow he made my bait and block come out around 20 frames late and X-Rays me anyway, this motherfucker is OP as hell in my opinion. I think he's actually top 3.

Ares_Supreme said:

Did I say something incorrect? Does Sonya not have an unreactable 50/50 into another 50/50?

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Yeah, in covert ops she does. But that doesn't mean you can't be a good Sonya player And just to add to what you said, her 50/50 is not very safe

WidowPuppy said:

I don't know man... I was just in a match against him online, came down to the final round, both of us had about 15% health. I got the HKD, knew he would wake up X-Ray with that full stick of butter he had. I advanced in to bait out his WU and blocked accordingly. Somehow he made my bait and block come out around 20 frames late and X-Rays me anyway, this motherfucker is OP as hell in my opinion. I think he's actually top 3.

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That is true. It is likely that his execution requirements are way too high for me to use him effectively at a high level. Sucks because I really wanted to main him.

MrAquary said:

Yeah, in covert ops she does. But that doesn't mean you can't be a good Sonya player And just to add to what you said, her 50/50 is not very safe

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Fair enough. I just have a very deep hatred for Sonya. Don't get me wrong, I don't believe the character needs to be nerfed by any means, but this is personal between Sonya and myself.

Ares_Supreme said:

Fair enough. I just have a very deep hatred for Sonya. Don't get me wrong, I don't believe the character needs to be nerfed by any means, but this is personal between Sonya and myself.

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Are you Quan Chi's balls?

day 1 i thought ermac was top 5 because he was so 'safe' until the guy i was playing said 90% of thats punishable

SaltShaker said:

That is true. It is likely that his execution requirements are way too high for me to use him effectively at a high level. Sucks because I really wanted to main him.

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I've hated him ever since MK9 [no offense] so maining him was not an option for me. He's probably one of the only characters in the game that even when your character has a godlike AA, you cannot anti air him anyway. Can't tech his throws even if you guess correctly. Can't counter poke after blocking one of his pokes. Can't punish him even when he is at -15. Can't armor between the gaps in his strings. Can't Wake Up Attack after he gets a KD. Can't block his overhead low strings. Can't trip guard him. Sometimes it's even hard to combo him [Don't know why].

He's probably has more online victories than all the characters combined. He very well might be the strongest character in the game.

I personally hate that motherfucker though. Even though he's good, I just don't like his character design.

WidowPuppy said:

I've hated him ever since MK9 [no offense] so maining him was not an option for me. He's probably one of the only characters in the game that even when your character has a godlike AA, you cannot anti air him anyway. Can't tech his throws even if you guess correctly. Can't counter poke after blocking one of his pokes. Can't punish him even when he is at -15. Can't armor between the gaps in his strings. Can't Wake Up Attack after he gets a KD. Can't block his overhead low strings. Can't trip guard him. Sometimes it's even hard to combo him [Don't know why].

He's probably has more online victories than all the characters combined. He very well might be the strongest character in the game.

I personally hate that motherfucker though. Even though he's good, I just don't like his character design.

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Hell thank God he is banned at tournaments and majors. Can you imagine what Evo would have looked like if he was allowed??? People would be begging for prepatch Tanya CEO. I don't even want to think of how many top players tools he would have shut down with his OP toolset. When people talk about broken characters, no one else on the roster can hold a candle to him.

for me it was when they revealed reptile and his slow down time mechanic, before the game came out i swore he was gonna be broken

usedcarsalesmang said:

Shinnok. When the game first came out I thought he was bottom 5, but then later he turned out to be the best in the game.

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Umm he was bottom 5, he got buffed remember?

I thaught kotal kahn was god tier from that short clip before the game came out of 3 hits 48%... If only they showed the rest of the match where he gets pressured into being the size of a breadcrumb

I thought Inferno Scorpion was OP'd with his vortex. Now I'm actually hoping to play against Inferno when I see a Scorpion.

Uh really early on I made a prediction that Hat Trick Kung Lao "won't be someone to sleep on"

Haha, fuckin' OOPS.

Juggs said:

Umm he was bottom 5, he got buffed remember?

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No way bro, the patch always was and shall forever be. The patch is the way, the light, the truth. The patch is eternal.