I had some really bad matchmaking yesterday and it put me up against a Smoke player whose skill level was leagues above my own. I'm genuinely not bad at the game, but this guy was just absolutely insane.
Same but tbh I can deal with top players eventually but a laggy smoke? Fucking forget it man I'm never gonna block all the constant lows and highs in laggy connection
I've been watching Max since MVC3 days. When I was all in on watching tournaments and tuning in evo every year. Now as a 36 year old that doesn't play games often let alone fighting games, I picked up MK1 on the PC. I can't do a combo to save my life. Props to all those that are older and still have the reaction time to do it.
The truth lies closer to "that doesn't play games often let alone fighting games" than "a 36 year old." The reaction time is less, yes, but your combos are timing and knowledge, which require time, and come together in muscle memory. With practice you'll be able to pull them, I am sure :)
I mean there's a still possibility that it will be available as a skin soon in this game right? since there's Rain & Scorpion skin with a different hairstyle already
I knew him from Superman years before he voiced Spider-Man from the Legions of Super Heroes show. He voiced a teenage Superman probably where they got the cast idea for Spider-Man.
"Let's make this incarnation of Smoke a nice young man." "Cool. Let's get that guy who voiced Sasuke Uchiha to voice him. He's also a ninja, right?" "Wasn't Sasuke a total assha--" "GET ME SASUKE'S VOICE ACTOR."
@@manbat4582 And Marth, one of the nicest Fire Emblem lords despite being memed as some homicidal maniac thanks to Shadow Dragon Gaiden Chapter requirements.
Not sure why it's a surprise to play a fighting game and see a majority of its players using the same character. People are always going to take the road of least resistance when it comes to getting that "W".
This is why I love the SF 6/Tekken approach. Give each character a rank to promote some diversity. I can pick up a new character and not affect my character’s rank.
@StephonZeno please tell me your not basing this on Max's video ? There are kounters for smoke such as reptile Raiden Milena shao kahn and sindel just to name a few off the top of my head ,it's not that people want an easy win it's because people have a choice of learning a character with hard combos or combos that are easy to learn and make the player happy. Atleast thats what I've learned while playing
“Easy win” dude you’ve obviously never played Smoke. He’s one of the hardest characters in the game to learn. You actually have to be good at the game to use him lol
Is that a thing? I know this comment doesn’t pertain to me, but I’ve always just stuck with whoever I think is the coolest or is my personal favourite. It’s the reason I’ve always picked Reptile no matter what game it is. I feel like the joy in a fighting game comes from finding a favourite or multiple favourites, and learning the best ways to play them so you can win with your chosen main.
Oddly only had bad experiences with Smoke, always Sareena, always looping uncounterable supers, never actually combo'ing... It's infuriating as a Scorp/Frost main XD
@@hamzalatif03 Punishing online is quite hard, I labbed how to punish Smoke's low teleport for probably 100 times and I still didn't manage to do it once in a real match
I had the same issue on pc on nonstop smoke and raiden. And honestly it sometimes feels like if you arent playing smoke you are at an extreme disadvantage as i played johnny. Johnny feels better as a casual online fighter then ranked fighter. But Thats just been my experience
No no no! Let me drop a gem on you. The kasual fighters are actually on rank. I lose more matches playing Kasual and I'm a Smoke main lol. I'm Master on Kombat League. Yes you'll run into a few good players on rank, but most were Kasuals. Good Luck!
Well as i said its been my experience so far. Most of those matches i had against smoke have most of the time been one sided. I had one match though where we were quite even though he was quite toxic but thats par for the course in online ranked. I played rank and had fun when i was fighting other people. Liu kang, Geras, reptile and other johnny players. But when i was fighting smokes it did honestly feel like an extended cutscene of me getting my ass kicked. Though mind you i will not claim to be the best johnny player in the world hell took me all day just to get to warrior rank and get the scorpion skin. And i have much to learn
Kinda sad they made Smoke's teleport launcher into 38-40% combo, but Scorpion's teleport is pretty much useless. It's only good for zoners or can go into combo if you do it after air kick or something, unless connection is bad, then you just drop your spear combo and get punished for 40%. Also Scorpion has 0 overhead/low mixups that can go into combo, I don't know if there's another character like that or it's just him. His launchers are good, but they are both high and any decent player will duck and punish you. On the plus side his B3 is kinda broken from full screen and he's pretty good in the air. But it just forces Scorpion players to play zoners and waiting for your chances with the spear. It's totally different gameplay from MK11
I see people say Smoke is the new MK11 Scorpion but idk I think he requires more skill to play well. I remember picking up Scorpion in 11 and being able to pull off some crazy combos pretty quickly but when I picked up Smoke I was getting thrashed online for a while before I figured out how to use him effectively.
@joshhawker3498 explain how they nerfed subzero when the game had barely been out a month and there's been no update for the game .. I'm curious where you heard or saw that subzero got nerfed ?
@@XxXAntiJoshXxX betas are just that ,if they left subzero the way he was which means his damage was higher than anyone else's he'd be op ,that's a necessary nerf from a prebuild ,all video games go through this ,heck even Tekken 8 is doing it . Subzero works just fine for me and his damage seems fair from the videos I've seen and from what I've played .stop the cap bro
I like Max's tone when hebsays hes having fun....its not too believe while hes playing MK but SF6, best believe the tone is different and believable lol
I assume max knows this but i wanna say armor only lasts one hit so any quick two hit button or string will beat it, the only who seems to actually have multiple hits of armor is havik
@@dice9270 any character can essentially do the same with Sektor. They just gotta learn the timing on the up missile setup. That’s why I like running Smoke with Sektor. Opponent essentially can’t wake up armor against his mix
@NIGHDI umm you do know mirror matches are bound to happen with ANY character you play right ? So your saying if your maining scorpion and you fight 5 other people playing scorpion your going to drop him ? Good luck playing the game bro
@@Paeddl ok but here's the thing I've been playing sf since the alpha days in any fighting game if you run into a mirror match you learn to adapt,go into practice and lab against a smoke to see where his weakness is and capitalise on it ,it's not that hard
Quality Smoke Online Matches Max. Smoke with that funky bs zapping about looks hella dope. Liu Kang looks super strong in this Game. Sindel has some nice Moves but very unsafe by the looks of them.
I wish I understood the way inputs work in this game I swear to god it feels fucking awful sometimes to get another motion over the motion you input for special canceling.
I am wondering If i am having fun with the game or convincing myself that I am. Still feels too slow for me... Maybe I just want every NRS game to be like MKX lmao
I don’t blame him I am addicted to MK1 and there are so many other games I would love to play including the RE4 DLC but I just can’t put this game down 😭😩
Just hit top 500 on PC recently and smoke is the one consistent character I see that feels impossible to block at this level. He can teleport cancel multiple times in the same string and both his overheads and lows extend into decently damaging combos. If anybody has any tips to defend against him lmk 😅 I do know that you can upblock his overhead in his low kick to overhead string.
I started playing Smoke then everybody was playing him so I decided to play Kenshi, Liu Kang and Mileena. still trying to find a good kameo character to use
Love the game! Putting it down until they patch the ability to pin combo to the screen. Constantly pausing to check combos (even in practice mode) kinda sucks
Sucks that smoke and raiden are so overplayed they are both my favorite mk kharacters . Hella nerfs are inbound fellas , so we might see some actual variety online
Dude they really need to change some of Scorpions frame data. If he’s not going to have any mix ups that lead to combos, then he at least needs to be able to punish a little bit harder. I’ve been getting up blocks all day and they can still block or punish me instead. Everyone else gets crazy exploits, Scorp is just as straight forward as you can get. Liu Kang can combo off of his grab for Pete sake. Throw a dog a bone please.😭 Also I’m glad Max is playing MK again.. may the playlist be as large as his MKX online list by the end of things.😂
