ATP2014
The best mediocre Batman
So I was labbing up some Mystic Ermac, trying to figure out what this character was about, and I noticed there were 2 really solid strings in his arsenal that he could use to pressure opponents on knockdown: B123 and F21D2. However, whenever I started watching match footage of top Ermac, I saw that B123 was used much more, with F21D2 only being used in combos. A quick comparison:
B123 has faster start-up, is a high starter, has a better anti-air hitbox, has better stagger potential with B12, and has 0 gaps.
F21D2 is a mid starter, can be easily hit confirmed anywhere, leads to more damage and has a gap before the third part of the string. However, with the loss of armored launchers and the inability of any character to backdash and punish this string (to my knowledge), this gap doesn't seem to be as big an issue.
So my question to the Ermac community is why B123 is used almost exclusively, and why F21D2 is almost never used in oki/neutral.
B123 has faster start-up, is a high starter, has a better anti-air hitbox, has better stagger potential with B12, and has 0 gaps.
F21D2 is a mid starter, can be easily hit confirmed anywhere, leads to more damage and has a gap before the third part of the string. However, with the loss of armored launchers and the inability of any character to backdash and punish this string (to my knowledge), this gap doesn't seem to be as big an issue.
So my question to the Ermac community is why B123 is used almost exclusively, and why F21D2 is almost never used in oki/neutral.