Mortal Kombat 1 - Proof Johnny Cage is Most Overpowered! 

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@@AsanteAdventureTV what video

Please people i beg you don't make this character get nerfed, i love him too much to see him leave me. Get cyrax nerfed, sure, but leave this man out of the patch notes for now. He's going to be so hard to nerf so give them time to do it properly. Because let's be real, he's broken (just like the rest of top 5), but at least he's not the annoying kind of broken, and if you take away his frame data or maybe nerf hype mode (which is already tough to use effectively what does he really have left?). What i mean is be careful on calling characters broken, one day you might miss them, and to be honest there are worse characters rn

@@shawnbopko858you thought wrong

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@@shawnbopko858opinion different from mine detected, opinion invalidated.

Lmao 💀

Il still kinda miss his Max's Steel Aura.

Can only Johnny block the opponent from throwing? I remember hearing about this feature before the game came out but i didnt know if it was a character exclusive thing

@@Henry-iz7iv yeah, as of now Johnny Cage is the only character who can disable his opponent from throwing. After a successful throw escape, you can spend meter to break your opponent’s arm and their forward and back throws become unavailable for a short period of time.

How do you do this? What move do you have to enhance, I thought you couldn’t spend meter without doing a special move? Or am I wrong?

How can you do this?

@@jbanks1525 think it's just block after a throw escape, the move list gives you more info.

they were thinking, "you know the characters that were kinda bad in mk11, lets make them good"

@@nightshade3115 they also said "you know those characters that everyone has wanted for over 10 years? Bring them back and make them trash"

@nightshade3115 Johnny Cage was bottom tier before he got buffed, then they later nerfed him to oblivion

​@@maskedman5657they also said "ya know what, fuck Sub-Zero."

@@coltondean2709 haviks not that bad, nor is ashrah, also reptile is pretty good

So basically he’s your knowledge check character

That applies to all characters though as far as how good the player is and how well they know how to use them. Johnny’s just capable of doing more and playing at a higher level than the rest of the characters 🤦‍♂️ definitely the best character in the game by far and too op

That doesn't negate that fact that his character is stupid. So many blocks.

Say you main Johnny without saying you main Johnny xD

lol all you have to do is spam the low hat and +3-5 strings on block if you play him

@embermist3910man of culture

It's really just corny to use this now.

One for each knee he has

Cryax back with broken ass resets and combo restarts,a tradition as old as time lol

@@21Handgunsexcept the combo resetting is coming from Johnny Cage’s Fatal Blow being a “parry” so it’s more Johnny Cage being just dumb in this game

@@jasperf.2388 the reset is the net not the fb. Most intelligent NRS fanboy

@@21Handguns Except its not? Besides being unnecessarily rude, you don't seem to understand that the OP is referring to resetting the combo meter, and the net itself does not reset the combo... its the unblockable attack coming from the johnny fatal blow that hits after the net is just ending... Not sure why people just have to be rude but whatever what can you expect when people call you a NRS fanboy when they be the one playing the game for "as old as time"...

@@jasperf.2388 weird long explanation to confirm you are in correct 🤡

I always wondered why Johnny got the 2 frame start up parry that essentially lets you go into full combo, that can ALSO be enhanced for faster start up etc etc. Meanwhile Reiko gets a 8-10 (I don’t remember exactly) frame parry that doesn’t combo, which is essentially useless when everyone can throw a 7 frame punch anyway. Enhancing Reiko parry doesn’t even make it faster either :(

I really HOPE he does, no reason he should be so OP more than the rest of the roster

I hope they make him slower but hits a tiny bit harder. Hes way too fast and waaaaayyy too safe. Not to mention a full combo does around only 35% BUT! he will lin you from one end to the corner

I imagine they’ll remove some of his insane Block and Hit advantage and keep is general speed/gimmicks. I’m guessing balance changes will come after this season of Kombat league ends in about a week

Deep down I know he’s gonna get nerfed. I just hope he stays fun is all I’m saying.

​@@SoufSideGuapoHe is Johnny Cage. That is a good enough reason.

They really don’t need to nerf Johnny as much as they need to buff other fighters

@@thedeepfriar745he’s arguably the best but I don’t know. People just don’t know how to learn. Johnny has a tough time fighting in the mid range where half of the roster excels. He definitely can’t fight full screen….. People don’t use their movement and distance control at all in this game until you get to the really high levels. I’ll give an example of an “OP” JC player. Guy was spamming his “mix” all game and I blocked it every time. (All you have to do is block low and react to any overhead since EVERY overhead in this game is react-able) he would go into d1 EVERY time and I’d block it EVERY time and he never changed up once besides trying to grab like a scrub and got destroyed. My point is people really don’t try to learn at all just walk you down and get their YT combos off while lacking basic fighting game fundamentals. Yet they cry about a character being OP because truth is they are TRASH! Johnny is very good in the right hands but literally only right up in your face. A snidely if the same skill level of a Johnny shits on him every time.

I also want to add for anyone reading this that I talked to a couple guys about and they didn’t even know this simple easy trick. When a mix up character is using a mix FOCUS MORE ON THEIR CHARACTER!!!!!!!!! Not yours and it helps to react to the overhead. I can’t believe when I tell people this all the time they say “oh I didn’t know that” 😅

​@@jamesonedwardsii4943bro yes he can he just side kicks in untill your exhausted a half decent johnny will absolutely slaughter 98% of the roster he is undoubtedly the most overpowered character they have ever developed

It was probably something like: You put it down like New York City, I never sleep Wild like Los Angeles, my fantasy (Chris Brown) Hotter than Miami, I feel the heat (oh, yeah) Oh, oh, oh, oh (girl it's), it's international love (international) Oh, oh, oh, oh (yeah), it's international love

Literally do the game's tutorial, learn about upblocking, and actually, and I mean ACTUALLY check out Johnny's frames and attack properties (like the big scary +15, which is actually a high and has a giant gap before it comes out) before you make a clown out of yourself with statements like that.

Spotted the Johnny player, enjoy the Cyrax nerf@@azazamat

@@Mobaster ok then, keep crying instead of learning something

​@@Mobastercyrax was OP, Johnny is still an easy character that I beat most of the time cause he's not OP he's just good.

Exactly, shits annoying. And ppl think they are good with him

There are gaps in the strings

@@Wetyourbedthat seems viable at first until you realize you can just use cyrax to make those gaps safe as well

​@@Wetyourbednot all of them 💀

@@ice5615 all I’m saying is there is ways around it and I’m not a Johnny player either

Hate to break it to you man but he isn't strong he's broken. If everyone is always plus on everything the first hit always wins.

i agree for the most part butthey NEED to nerf his plus frames at LEAST

@@ice5615 focus on learning the matchup to better deal with his options. Then focus on the low teirs. Someone is labbing them to beast mode. And if you are not ready, you're screwed.

I only agree that the top tiers shouldn't be nerf but all weaker people should be buffed

@@ice5615 without his + frames he'd be useless, a rushdown char that cant rushdown with no projectile, you cant spend meter everytime they shoot a fireball

That part

That is why I say there is no impressive Raiden. All of them pick Jax and all of them do the same over powered combo.

I think mk1 in general is pretty boring. Like if your not playing online then the game is a snorefest. Mk11 has plenty to do outside of online

Yeah i miss the crypt so much, even if mk11's crypt was too grindy it was still so kool and it had so much effort put into it, it's so sad WB rushed Nrs to make this game half baked@@CrossfitWarrior

@LappyAwoo I barely started playing online in mk11 in the last few seasons and we're missing a lot of the old features like playback, being able to save and favorite those to learn what you did wrong. Plus I think the top 6 players in the game are pretty oppressive. There needs to be a balance patch

Not so fun to play against him.

​@@farniankhayamian3972I very much enjoy beating Johnny's face in with Rieko and blowing him up with Shang fireballs. Johnny's perfect as is imo he's only good of you let him get in your face and scare you he's predictable

This.

He's definitely not impossible to fight, but theres a point when it becomes unfun to play against EVERYONE using the same character because he's just objectively stronger than a lot of the cast.

Facts

This comment is a clear indication you don't actually understand the game. He was nerfed. His best Kameo cryax got nerfed which means he got nerfed indirectly.

MK11 Jhonny pre nerfs was an absolut beast tho.

@@Mobaster To a degree. He still had little mixups and he whiffed over most female characters

Like 11 duck os kinda kills him.

And who also just loves making annoying jokes and acts like an obnoxious jackass all the time

I like all his overhead launchers should be punishable on block atleast

Every single one of his launchers (212, f34, f124, bf3EX) is launch punishable if thrown out without cover from kameo. Please learn what upblocking is. It's a new mechanic for MK1, but the game's tutorial explains it really nice.

F21 leads into a 50/50 where you’re gonna eat 30% at least if you up block and guess wrong. f124 is already death on block for johnny w out up block. Now that cyrax got a well needed nerf and flawless blocking now stops both meter build and chip it should be less oppressive. Even so, up block was not, prior to the update, and is not enough to level the playing field on its own. Especially online at higher levels, where you have to make a hard reads in sets where the ping can be up to 150ms and players can actually stagger and mix up effectively

@@frosty_trees then your problem is not with Johnny, but with the game itself. Can't really blame character for issues with ping. And no, you should never have "level playing field" with a rushdown character in melee, unless you play another rushdown character or some specific anti-rushdown. Gotta get rid of this mentality that it is somehow unfair that Johnny beats you up close, but it's totally fine and fair that you beat Johnny full screen.

@@azazamat Just to be clear everything I’m saying is in regards to competitive play, not casual. johnny doesn’t get beat full screen. There are no hard counters to him. He has an 8 frame almost completely full screen special that also can armor thru projectiles if enhanced, a dash that allows him to get in free and easy if you don’t have the timing to dash cancel, a parry that beats just about any button, and safety on almost everything he does. Even if somehow none of those tools work just use one of the many kameos that ignore projectiles, let him get up close completely for free, or do both. You can turn your brain off with him and cruise thru the ranks like butter. No footsies, no neutral, no brains. Meanwhile you have characters that don’t even have useable mids This is a competitive multiplayer game. Fairness and having a level playing field should be second only to the “fun factor”. Johnny kinda takes a massive dump on both in his current state if you want to do anything other than play the mirror, which you can’t even switch to mid-set. When people who play Johnny don’t even need to block most of the match and can chip half your health bar it should probably be addressed. I don’t think it’s impossible to beat him but he has no bad match ups. he’s a crutch character anyone can pick up in 10 minutes or less at any rank lower than grandmaster, and at the higher levels it just turns into a one player game where you watch Johnny slowly punch your health bar away one chip at a time. This is the most fun NRS game I’ve played since MKX imo. My issue is with Johnnys kit and Johnny kit alone.

@frosty_trees I think we're playing two very different games then. Cause I have to work pretty hard for every win in ranked, with fundamentals, hard reading my opponent and properly timing my pressure. While said opponent on some braindead zoning garbage like Liu Kang, Sub-Zero or Rain just spams whole match without any thought or reason. And that's on top of Kenshi and his fun, but frustrating Sento stuff. Maybe if you play somewhere above first 5 ranks you'll actually see how to get out of Cage's pressure. But you won't get there if you keep being condescending and unwilling to spend some time actually understanding the match-up. Like, for example, Shadow Kick is a high and launchable on block, Dash is not immune to everything all the time, etc. As for "bad matchups" - that is a really bad requirement to have. It only shows that the character needs buffs. I don't think Injustice's Zod vs Luthor is an example of good balance. If you suck playing against rushdown - maybe try playing one to understand the game plan better. Though it is quite a bit harder than brainlessly spaming projectiles.

Facts .. but people just love to cry nerf instead of getting better

@@demoflow my dude the majority of MK players aren't frame data eagle eye tryhards.

@@mecha_nemesis_6897 right which is why NRS shouldn't listen to casuals .. you guys ain't up for it 💁 you gotta learn the one if you trying to compete my guy also don't speak for the whole NRS community this is a figting game knowledge is key

@@mecha_nemesis_6897 you would be surprised how many people react to his 50/50 strings. Sometimes my opponents will block all of them throughout then entire match and it’s so frustrating

honestly, you may be trash and predictable because with kameos. He may have one of the most even matchup spreads in the game imo. Zoning is soooo nerfed in this game with the addition of kameos and how fast you build and keep meter.

How I play kenshi and Kensington really slow

in bed

he needs a little adjustment. there is way too much guessing involved against him

This is just basically MK9 Cage without fireball tho. Which is probably what Ed wanted to recreate.

When looking at the move list hit Square which opens up other info about the moves. Especially useful for doing Brutalities so you know what Else you have to do to make them work. I believe Square is 1 on all controllers.

Look at the amplified version of all your special moves. If you press square read the info. It will say armored

haven't agreed with anything more in my life.

Lol wut you play raiden but struggle against Baraka? Raiden is the strongest Baraka counter in the game. This is definitely a skill issue.

I get that tbh. It always sucks when the character you like is super strong and everyone just assumes you're playing them/winning because of how good _they_ are and not because of how much you like them

@@insertcleverjoke8383 thank you someone who understands. i can understand why ppl would get upset raiden can do big damage and if played with cyrax can be a lot to deal with. i suck to much at fighting games to abuse tier list. im out there just trying to learn how to hit confirm and not drop combos so much.

I picked Raiden to main before I knew he was good. Kung Lao was my first choice but he doesn't feel good. Raiden feels amazing but he's op and everyone is playing with him so I dropped him for reiko

I think his overhead animations should just be made slower. His overhead punch and standing kick is way too fast for an overhead that gives you a full combo

He has a lot of strings that lead to full combos without cameos while everyone else has one or two. He hardly ever needs bar which means he can break your combo after you made an opening after losing half your life to block damage. He has lows an overheads for days and almost all of them are safe. I main smoke. He has lows an overheads to but they are not safe. Also smoke has no mid starters. A mild nerf wouldn't cutbit mate.

I won't lie man cyrax helps Johnny a lot but I only see a few people talking about it but Johnny/lao is really dumb as well I personally think it's a bit better but that just my thoughts.

bro what, no projectiles is a con, but hardly an issue because if you gave him one. You'd hardly even use it as Johnny shouldn't even be that far from the opponent. Air combat being bland isn't even an issue so I don't know why you mentioned that. Now he's not unfair, as tbh there are like 3 more unfair characters. Raiden, Baraka, Kenshi (kinda). SO I do agree that he maybe shouldn't be nerfed hard, but other characters should get broken shit as well.

@@coleforpresident5762 I only mentioned the air combat strings because a good deal of the cast can go with or without them for damage and combos, Sub Zero and Smoke being good examples, but the rest of the cast can go without those strings. That being said, yeah I do agree that the top 3 characters should get nerfed, especially Raiden in my opinion, but Johnny being a pure rush down and mix up character means he should be threatening up close and have several options for breaking through the opponent’s defenses.