Just had my absolute favorite night of MK ever and there's a bit of backstory that goes with it. Friend of mine (kind of in the industry), was a big tournament player back in the MK9/IJ1 days. We're talking custom made sticks with 5 buttons for Netherrealm fighters, figures, cosplays, the works. Won tons of tourneys as a Sub-Zero/Batman main. And I was THE online ragdoll to boss around.
Now in MK9, my main was Mileena but she never could beat his Sub so I switched to Smoke. Shit they were making it, to the papers and all. it was crazy. A minor MK celebrity! Anyhow, they didn't get into MKX but still their Sub destroyed me a hundred times. See I never really was into online fighters until very recently. Like basically starting with SF4. And i ever only truly got to play matches with that person, and get beat up. Other than that, sometimes I could beat a flowchart Ken in SF4. My Killer Frost kept getting bodied and the best comment I heard was from someone on their mic in the background, being picked up saying "Well, at least there was someone worse tonight before". (screw you girl!)
To make a long story short, they didn't plan to get MK11 because life was in the way. Then that trailer with the movie theme came out. Now me, I really got into fighting online thanks to Soul Calibur 6 (my favorite 3D fighting game ever). So MK11 was a must. So i played the beta, and trained with Skarlet. And trained. And trained in the full version against subbie. And trained. So tonight we decided to try to duel the Scorpion boss. We got destroyed and laughed at how we both sucked. Eventually we quit, and then I got an invite for a couple private matches.
I threw the first two. Not like, i actually lost and am trying to save face. I legit played like a foot on purpose. Got icecubed fatalitied twice. Felt their hype growing. And on the third match, I opened the floodgates.Skarlet is fucking BUILT to destroy Sub-Zero it seems. I run cell siphon, blood port and the blood shield. She's a beast zoner, that's also a flashy combo queen. Blood port, cell siphon into triangle, square, triangle, blood splatter. Hnnnng! Blood trail negating the ice balls and ice walls, hnnnnnnnnng! Zoning as hell, before porting in for a long string and fucking back off! HNNNNNNNNG! The glorious priority on her jump kicks! My new main! And yeah they called me out on the scheme lol! Fucked off to Netflix eventually! Revenge!
Next up, I'm learning Cetrion since there's zoning overlap. 'Member kids, Spring Cleaning Cetrion AI with 30 Rushdown/ 30 Zoning makes 0 sense and yet melts towers and 30/30 Noobs like crazy.