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Nice Job at FR BWIZZ!

G4S Claude VonStroke

@MK_ClaudeVS on twitter
Was fun watching your matches and I learned a few things. You have a great Raiden. It's a shame you got matched up against sonya, i hate that matchup! Picking up Kenshi just for that matchup basically. Hope to see you more in majors in the future. Will you be a MLG? I'm going and if you are it will just add to the Raiden hype.
 

B W1zZ

Noob
Thanks man. I play morty all the time so I was a little disappointed I lost to death's sonya, but it's all good. I kind of started slackin after I played that reptile player and tourney nerves messed me up a bit too.

Edit: I'm thinking about going to MLG but I don't know if I'll be able to at this point.
 

Albo

Noob
Well done B Wizz!:) we're all proud of you brother. I really do hope you can make it to MLG so the sooner we get to see more of your raiden, the better.
 

Chaosphere

The Free Meter Police
good shit bwizz. it was great being able to see a pro raiden show how it's done as well as talk raiden with you throughout the tourney. thanks for telling me about the forward air to air punch combo. i've already put about an hour's worth of practice into that one haha. i'm sure i'll see you around at another tourney, if at the very least evo.
 

AREZ God of War

The Crazy BeastMaster
Man, u did awesome Bro.... i knew Death was gonna give u problems, but I wasn't sure how it was gonna pan-out in the end and he just happened to get you on that one. We know keeping deep-concentration and focus at tourneys (as compared to online) is a task in and of itself and it wouldn't be human to always be 100%. Props for showing up and reppin' yourself and getting some very impressive and decisive victories. Everyone stated repeatedly that you clearly had the best Raiden, regardless of the turn-out. Good shit Bro!!
 

mekane

Noob
b wizz does have a very good raiden. there were just so many good players in this tourney and he ran into a bad matchup.

It will be interesting to see how PL can do with raiden at MLG. I don't think Raiden is that good.
 

G4S Claude VonStroke

@MK_ClaudeVS on twitter
b wizz does have a very good raiden. there were just so many good players in this tourney and he ran into a bad matchup.

It will be interesting to see how PL can do with raiden at MLG. I don't think Raiden is that good.
You mean you don't think Raiden is a good character?? Also PL still uses Kung Lao.
 

Zyphox

What is going on guys, Ya Boi Zyphox here.
according to tom brady raiden doesn't have a bad matchup, do you agree bwizz? btw congrats, raiden is my second character for any bad cage matchups and i learned alot from watching you use raiden. oh and amma call you FreeW1zZ cuz i like putting Free into everyone names where it makes sense to :p
 

G4S Claude VonStroke

@MK_ClaudeVS on twitter
According to PL the sonya matchup is winnable but kind of a nightmare. If raiden has a bad one that's the one. Also the Kano matchup is not easy either.
 

B W1zZ

Noob
according to tom brady raiden doesn't have a bad matchup, do you agree bwizz? btw congrats, raiden is my second character for any bad cage matchups and i learned alot from watching you use raiden. oh and amma call you FreeW1zZ cuz i like putting Free into everyone names where it makes sense to :p
Yeah I agree, Raiden has a lot of competitive matchups (5-5's) but no unwinnable/bad matchups.
 

Zyphox

What is going on guys, Ya Boi Zyphox here.
At this point for me anyways it's hard to say who the best character in the game is. I'm torn between Kabal and Raiden.
yeah i still say kabal is better, but raiden is easier to use than kabal. imo tele makes raiden top tire cuz you can't zone or pressure him, but his normals blow and transitioning from cage to raiden all the time fucks me over cuz i think i could just pressure with 33 and b3 1 and stop short and start up again like i do with cage, whats your tip on pressuring with raiden?
 

B W1zZ

Noob
yeah i still say kabal is better, but raiden is easier to use than kabal. imo tele makes raiden top tire cuz you can't zone or pressure him, but his normals blow and transitioning from cage to raiden all the time fucks me over cuz i think i could just pressure with 33 and b3 1 and stop short and start up again like i do with cage, whats your tip on pressuring with raiden?
In my opinion Kabal is hard in the sense that he is execution heavy, but Raiden is harder because it overall takes strong fundamentals to do well with him. As far as pressuring with Raiden you have to play good footsies and fill in holes in your offense with 1's, D1's, D3's etc and make good reads. Also F23 by itself is a good pressuring tool because it leaves you at 0 on block and jails so you can land vicinity blast, which leads to a plethora of options after blocked by your opponent. B3 / B31 into throw, D3 into throw, stand 1 on hit into D3 F24 etc.

B312 and 334 are good pressuring tools but interruptible...it's all about switching it up depending on whether or not your opponent is interrupting, also teleport in neutral/slight disadvantage situations such as after a vicinity blast or after the recovery of F23/F24/334/all points in B312 can be good for opening up your opponent/playing mind games. Basically pressuring is about intelligently using Raidens strings in the right situations making good reads/knowing whether you are at advantage or disadvantage.
 

Zyphox

What is going on guys, Ya Boi Zyphox here.
In my opinion Kabal is hard in the sense that he is execution heavy, but Raiden is harder because it overall takes strong fundamentals to do well with him. As far as pressuring with Raiden you have to play good footsies and fill in holes in your offense with 1's, D1's, D3's etc and make good reads. Also F23 by itself is a good pressuring tool because it leaves you at 0 on block and jails so you can land vicinity blast, which leads to a plethora of options after blocked by your opponent. B3 / B31 into throw, D3 into throw, stand 1 on hit into D3 F24 etc.

B312 and 334 are good pressuring tools but interruptible...it's all about switching it up depending on whether or not your opponent is interrupting, also teleport in neutral/slight disadvantage situations such as after a vicinity blast or after the recovery of F23/F24/334/all points in B312 can be good for opening up your opponent/playing mind games. Basically pressuring is about intelligently using Raidens strings in the right situations making good reads/knowing whether you are at advantage or disadvantage.
thanks good to know about the f23 vicinity blast jail, and yea about kabal i meant in execution, raiden really takes a lot to master as we can see even though raiden has no bad matches he has yet to win a major besides PL, but i bet it was more PL being good and the player he was playing against didn't really play the MU right imo. not saying 16fans or slips or dizzy are bad, no contrary, but i didn't see anyone interupt PL in his strings or punish tele hard like they could have. am probably going to try and level up my raiden at vsm this thursday as i want to explore more character than cage, because am so not confident in any other character but cage. if you get a chance to watch the stream this thursday and am on i would really appreciate any and all criticism on my raiden or any character really. amma post the stream video on both character video thread as well to get the same result as i really want to up my game as much as possible and the best way is to ask the best evaluate how its done and imo your the best raiden right now :D thanx
 

WaweR

Noob
Really good games W1zZ ! I had my fingers crossed for you and was cheering on the stream all nite ^^ Still, my expectectations about your finishing place was a bit higher of course, but your game was as good as I was looking forward to. Great AA's, footsies, blockstring mixups will be a new material for me to learn from. And those 121~shocker punishments, yeah. Thx mate and I hope you'll show up in next tours soon.
 
damn after watching your first match, I was really convinced you would make top 8, your raiden is so goo, but also so different from Pl. you make more use of all the tools that are available to u, while Pl's raiden is like he just had some cocaine, so fast.
 

G4S Claude VonStroke

@MK_ClaudeVS on twitter
Yeah what i noticed against reptile is you were on point with the 121 punish. I have to make sure i do that every time like you did against reptile. Also your EX FB setup is really cool. Going to try that out. Inspiration!
 
bw1zz yo no he visto tus peleas en el ultimo torneo que gano vvv-reo ,
me gustaria ver esas peleas donde perdiste contra sonya , son personajes complicados para raiden porque atacan con
mucha rapidez , por eso hay que acercarse solo para hacer tu ataque , no esperar y acercarse y que ellos te ataquen,

me gustaria ver esas peleas , alguien que me facilite el link