Ridley_Prime
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Originally posted by ScreamPaste
Indeed, his punching bag status is a constant irk of mine, he's such an awesome character. As for the classic costume? Hell yes. Do want. I really, really hope that I can get it when MK9 comes out for Wii-U.
Am sure we will. 🙂 At least Reptile was shown to dodge bullets when climbing up a building though. Granted, Kabal and Stryker seemed to have crappy aim at the time, but yeah.
Originally posted by Demonic Phoenix
I understand the feeling.
One good thing about Shang Tsung, is that he gains an ATK boost whenever he morphs iirc. Against Quan Chi, that ability is deelish, considering QC can himself boost his ATK. Also, I`ve never tried it, but can you morph into the boss characters?I don't bother with Scorpion online either. Mostly because I like Smoke more than Scorpion as far as gameplay goes. Sub-Zero's another one that I like more than Scorpion.
Also, Reptile's dash is ass. The thing sucks balls, even if you block cancel a dash into another dash.
And I better get back to MK and get better with characters. Been busy playing the Assassin's Creed games. Even though we can't play against each other in MK, I don't want to eat your dust. 😛
Yep. At first I thought you could only gain an attack boost once whenever you do his soul steal special for him to morph, but it seems there's pretty much no limit to it. When I replayed the challenge in the tower where you have to fight with him against Baraka, Sindel, and Shao Kahn, I pretty much raped the competition from the constant power boosts, which in turn made Tsung's x-ray all the more powerful when I used it against Kahn. xD One thing too I didn't know for the longest time is that whenever you do one of Tsung's throws/grapples, he'll regain a little bit of health in the process like his soul steal special in the previous games used to do. And seeing as how Quan Chi's skeletal boost thingy either gives him a power boost or health boost (or both if you do the enhanced special version of that move), that pretty much makes 'em even in that regard. Deadly alliance indeed...
My favorite newly learned combo with Shang that I found out last night, is doing his close ground fireball right after doing his Y, Y, X combo, or doing the enhanced special version of that right after (well I guess for you, it would be triangle, triangle, square, followed by down+up+circle before the opponent lands on the ground 😛).
As for being able to morph into the boss characters as Tsung, no, you can't do that sadly. But you still get a power boost when you do the soul steal special against them, so it counts for something at least. I always did that against Goro and Kintaro for some easy power boosts when I was replaying the 300th challenge with him. (funny how when you fight Goro/Kintaro and Kahn in the arcade ladder as Tsung, he'll be morphed into them for a few seconds when he's walking towards them, during his little character intro thingy)
I know what ya mean about Smoke. It's sweet how when you do his specials where you turn into a cloud of smoke and dash forward or backward, you'll be immune to projectiles. His shake/vibration thingy counters against projectiles too, though I hardly ever use it when playing as him (took me the longest time to figure out that move's purpose at first, lol). Subzero, I wasn't too impressed with for some reason (gameplay-wise). Kinda like using Cyber Subzero more..
When fighting a Scorpion player, the only thing I really have to watch out for anymore is his hellfire special, since it's unblockable. Scorp's slide kick doesn't have nearly as much range as it did in MKvsDC too, unless they decide to do the enhanced special version of it, which is rarely the case.
Agreed about Reptile's dash.
Fair 'nuff. 😛 Competitive-wise, I actually didn't start getting back into the game again until last night, due to being distracted with other games for awhile too. In the not-too-distant future, I'm thinking about maybe recording some intense random online matches I win and upload them to youtube, since my friend who made the Kitana faq on gamefaqs has been doing that some. This is some of his btw if anyone's interested (yes, he's Japanese).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=offOr3A54sk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeBTZ9g0mfI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE5is5ocgu4
I've fought against beastly Kitanas and Mileenas like that online before and always lost, but am hoping that changes in the future...
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edit: On a different note, free Cyrax and Sektor costume skins coming out next week. =o
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