People still complain about these things?
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I dunno, most people who complain about characters needing this stuff just can't beat people who use those characters....not saying it is true in every case but just learn how to counter...I have beaten plenty of people who abuse Raiden's torpedo.
The real complaining this time is the teleporting spam. If you are stationairy and not doing anything you should be able to punish his teleport. People just want easy mode when playing online and want their SAME STRATEGY to work on everyone. Since raiden is a special case that makes you play a little more defensively people don't like it.
Online a torpedo threat and a teleport can be a 50/50 punish to someone who doesn't have a good wit/reflexes.
@ people complaining:
The trick guys is to dash block around really quickly that way you are 50% of the time blocking 50% of the time not doing anything. That way the raiden will be WAYYY too scared to torpedo. So he'll most likely lightning bolt/teleport. if the raiden likes his space when you get too close he'll probably teleport.
A torpedo is a full punish, so they will use these sparingly. If they are smart.
Now for the SMART raidens... well you're just going to need experience.
you got raidens that will use the torpedo fear to get a jump in punch on you. and free pressure. The lucky thing about that is, raiden's pressure sucks major balls outside of using his vicinity blast. and you can duck that.
So block everyone high while watching for his low string. And whenever he likes to do vicinity blast change to a duck and punish.
If you are having problems hitting a raiden that does Teleport into Crossover jump. RIGHT after he teleports do a really fast high attack, or a anti air (like a nuetral jump punch if you're really confident he'll jump again).
once you start punishing his teleport. Next time he teleports he'll be scared when he realizes you weren't blocking. So he'll hold block, then you can start grabbing.
this is me assuming they are somewhat of a thinker though... I mean you might have one of those raidens that just RANDOMLy guess between torpedo/teleport ect ect. If that's the case he has to trick you ten times while it should only take you 3-4 correct guesses. If you lose well most REAL matches are made up of best 2 of 3. So as long as you win 2 every 3 fights. You're better. That's one of the reasons it's always best 2 of 3 best 2 of 3 in tournaments. To prevent random luck factors like raidens switching between just those 2 options and getting lucky. He can't get lucking for up to 6+ rounds of the odds being... 3 to 10 in your favor.