Sub-Zero Thread - "Feel Death's Cold Embrace!"

BYoung said:
I made an important life decision today: I'm going to make Sub-Zero my main. I'm already decent with his combos, I just need to practice with his different strategies. I played a few matches with him today when I used his Ice Clone very effectively, and then there were others where it didn't go so well. I'll be reading this thread more thoroughly this weekend when I have the time to practice!
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Very nice. Sub-Zero's always been my favorite character. I pre-ordered MK9 from Best Buy to get his classic costume/fatality and have mained him from day one til now. He's crazy-good despite the fact that he's the most nerfed character in the game lol. His mind games are brutal, it really freaks people out to know that in the final round all you have to do is take the first half of their health bar and they're pretty screwed. Once they hit 50% health, that's when the beastly X-Ray combos come out and things start dying lol. At least, that's how I tend to use his bar, makes for a helluva mindf--k. One mistake and your health bar vanishes at that point.

This thread has some really high quality info in it, hopefully it helps you with your Sub-Zero. =)
 
have they messed around with subzeros 2,2,2? online when you hit the last input it used to do an over head and break your opponnents block, it hasnt last few times i tried online only tho
 
Dedamn666 said:
have they messed around with subzeros 2,2,2? online when you hit the last input it used to do an over head and break your opponnents block, it hasnt last few times i tried online only tho
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nope ..its like it used to be. but u can fuzzyblock anything on the last frame ;)
 
I've decided to main Sub-Zero now. He seems to suit my defensive play style. One question:

Does his Forceclaw Reset still work? I've tried many times and I can't get it to play out.

Also, fuzzyblock means when you change block stance at the last frame of the attack. You will still appear to be in the previous blocking position but the attack will still be blocked.
 
Jinko said:
I've decided to main Sub-Zero now. He seems to suit my defensive play style. One question:

Does his Forceclaw Reset still work? I've tried many times and I can't get it to play out.
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I watched a vid on this last night but NRS may have fixed it. If you freeze then prep the forceclaw and hit the moment they break it only works if your opponent is trying to block or attack coming out of the freeze. Tom Brady had a vid about it up and thats how he explained it hope that helps.
EDIT: As of last month this was still in. But they may have patched it by now.
 
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Jinko said:
I've decided to main Sub-Zero now. He seems to suit my defensive play style. One question:

Does his Forceclaw Reset still work? I've tried many times and I can't get it to play out.
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Forceclaw reset still works. However, it only works when your opponent is holding block or pressing any input while frozen. If you can't get it out it means your opponent is not pressing anything while frozen. What you do in that situation is still continue to use the Forceclaw reset, but cancel it into a string and punish your opponent for not pressing anything. That will get them pressing while frozen again, and the reset will be completely viable.
 
What to do when people are holding jump back/jump forward after they see me trying to force claw reset? anyone know? Even if I try to cancel out of the force claw they will avoid my string by jumping away. Need some good suggestions.
 
Okay, I just went through all 21 pages of this thing. Great info from Kaballer, Fox and everyone else who contributed, it should help a lot. I don't expect to be a pro, I just hope I can hold my own against some of the better players online. I have a lot of practicing ahead of me. Thanks, everyone!

Sub-Zero has always been my favorite character since I played Mortal Kombat on my neighbors Sega Genesis. I'm kind of ashamed I haven't been maining him from day one in this game...
 
Sub Zero is my main, has been since day one. My best combo is a wall combo thats like 56% damage. If anyone has good midscreens though tell me because my best mid screen is 45%. Always up for some more combos to improve my game.
 
Magna said:

Please tell me what you guys think of this combo I made.
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The ice puddle won't work, the dummy did nothing but a human could easily escape/wake up. And you should be doing the 1st reset faster so it lands just as they come out of the freeze, the timing in the video was delayed.
 
BYoung said:
Okay, I just went through all 21 pages of this thing. Great info from Kaballer, Fox and everyone else who contributed, it should help a lot. I don't expect to be a pro, I just hope I can hold my own against some of the better players online. I have a lot of practicing ahead of me. Thanks, everyone!
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Thanks brother! Props to you for reading all 21 pages of this thread. If you have any questions, feel free to ask and I'll do my very best to help out.
 
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jarvis653 said:
The ice puddle won't work, the dummy did nothing but a human could easily escape/wake up. And you should be doing the 1st reset faster so it lands just as they come out of the freeze, the timing in the video was delayed.
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The ice puddle can work when the opponent fails to do a wake up attack, or in some kind of mind play, if you make the player think that you will always punish his wake up attack, and so he don't use it to avoid being punished. Then, you could surprise him with the ice puddle. But anyway, I admit that in a tournament level, it's practically unusable.

As for the first reset, I needed to delay it because the dummy was just standing. If the dummy was blocking, there would be no need to delay, I guess.

But overall, I think that the most interesting reset was jumping over the opponent after the ice puddle and then using the force claw. What do you think?
 
New (i think?) Corner Combo

Can be done of a Freeze Setup and u have to be as near to the corner as possible!

B2(full charge), NeutralJP(u have to hit him on the way down - the moment he unfreezes), B12,214xxSlide/Xray
 
Quick question I can't seem to remember how do I cancel b+2 into 22 in the 50/50 reset if they let go of block? Like 22, freeze I charge b+2 they let go of block I cancel b+2 to 22 freeze again?
 
Inception said:
Quick question I can't seem to remember how do I cancel b+2 into 22 in the 50/50 reset if they let go of block? Like 22, freeze I charge b+2 they let go of block I cancel b+2 to 22 freeze again?
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Just keep holding 2 when you dash to cancel into 22 freeze.
 
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