Only because anti air properties I'd say.
Only because anti air properties I'd say.
Sluggish, yes, but people respect them.
or he could just wakeup slide..i dont know if you tried but theres only a couple ways to put a truly safe forceball on the screen. forceball blow up takedas ex tele so hard though
Probably. Can you imagine Kano if his db1 EX was meterless? Holy shit.
I do wish the klaw pounce wasn't so hella unsafe, though. The recovery is ridiculous. It'd be nice to have that yolo long range db4f launch option without the -700 block adv.
It's pretty clear that Reptile's damage scaling is harsh, and design wise, his variations are meant to offset that. And they probably do ... though deceptive is a hard sell in that regard.
It's a tough pill to swallow when Kotal Kahn (for instance) can crap out a 32% mid screen meterless with f2 f2 f2 d2.
But that's the price of being stylish.
I kinda have success using them for AA because of how slow the regular slow one moves.
Guys stop with the denial lol. MKX forceballs start BEHIND HIM which is a tremendous difference on the negative side. You literally never have to fear running into a forceball, even an enhanced one. They aren't meaty mids, a ton of low profiling moves go under them. -19 in block strings. Very bad recovery and EX fb doesnt recover instantly and are also -19 as opposed to +1...
It'd be nice if Reptile came back to the way he was pre-release. Safe OH klaw swipe sounds delicious.
Or just let the command OH do like... idk... 8% initial damage?
B3 xx DB2 all day.
Damage is not the issue though.
You know you wouldn't say no
Bro, f412 dash 21 f412 is like 31% (not sure of exact damage) and that's meterless... His damage output is low, but he's all about short damage alot of the time, or at least that's how I play him.
Just hit 21 as late as possible and f412 as soon as 21 is done, eventually it'll become second nature man
To piggyback on what Bobbyxton said, it's definitely one of his easiest BnB's. Connecting the 21 after the dash is just tricky in the beginning simply because you expect to have to do it immediately when you can't. Like Bobby said, you'll eventually get the feel of when to use 21 (you have a pretty good window to do it, allowing it to hit consistently online) and then it'll fall in line.
Probably hard online but if you are having problems with that combo offline you just need to lab more: Reptile damage is the perfect example of how damage should be in this game 17% off an OH (which is + on block if I'm not wrong) or 15% + ball setup, B34 is a really good low string and you can commit to it via EX claw for 27% (I think) damage, when you're close use F412 when you're at middle distance F21 is a good advancing string when you're far you can combine BF1 with the fast and slow balls to zone or use a slow one to get close safely.
I can do the combo offline. I can do almost everyone of Reptile's combo offline. No problem. I have casuals at my house weekly. My problem is how little damage he does with one bar of meter. It feels like a waste. Ermac has 39% no meter combos. I am not asking for that. I want him to get atleast 34% or 35% with one bar. I understand he has good mix-ups and set-ups but 27% or 29% for f41 db2mb f21 1+2 is non-sense and I should at least hit the 30s with it.
Reptile has 34%/36% 1 meter combos that aren't corner combos, either.
Saying a combo is hard as hell. Doesn't mean I can't execute it. A 5% buff on my previous mentioned combo would not be unfair.
Agreed, it probably wouldn't be unfair, but would you rather have EX Klaw Swipe as an Overhead, or a 5% buff (or make it so it doesn't scale as hard) to his F211+3 string? There's not a wrong answer there, so if you prefer the buff, fair enough. I just feel that the added OH would help Reptile much more.
How does EX Claw being OH actually help Reptile? Yeah EX Swipe has a bit more range than B2 but that's not really gonna help him. All he really needs is a few shaves of start up or recovery shaved on forceballs.
*swipe as an over head and 5% buff
Agreed 100% on the acid balls, but EX Klaw absolutely helps Reptile in just about any situation that you'd use it. Currently it's mid, so the opponent literally doesn't even have to think. If you're mixing it up enough, the EX Klaw Swipe being OH adds much more to Rep's arsenal that 5% extra damage here and there wouldn't.