mandead
Active member
Okay, so I'd consider Jax my 'main' in the sense that I seem to have the most success with him online, and play him quite often in various tower modes, but I certainly haven't mastered him (or anywhere near, in fact) and pretty much exclusively play his Heavy Weapons variation as it gives nice zoning tools and doesn't require the ridiculous combo skills Wrestler seems to. (I'd love to be able to do some of those moves, but it seems quite difficult a variation to play well and I'd rather stick with the 'easy' one for now).
I think my w/l is 26-28 atm, which I'm pleasantly surprised with as I was expecting something more like a 1:4 ratio at this point. My main strat is to do the EX dash punch move (forward-back-Y?) at the very start of a match, as that's usually a fairly safe way of knocking someone down, and then I just try to get them into a corner and hammer them with punches -- usually alternating between his basic 3-punch combo and then a few low punches and an uppercut. When they're down, the slow back-X (?) overhead punch is quite good as if it connects it will knock them into the air, so you can then follow up with another uppercut.
I can usually win games vs. players of a similar or slightly better skill set to me, primarily because Jax has a few 'cheap' moves that deal a lot of damage, and he seems quite good at keeping someone in a corner. My main problems are against Scorpion spammers (it seems around one in every two-three games is vs. a Scorpion player, and they rarely show any variety) who try to zone you by using that downward demon kick over and over and over. God damn, I hate that so much. I have managed to beat quite a few, though, which is always satisfying because you just know they will be raging.
Any tips for a noob?
I think my w/l is 26-28 atm, which I'm pleasantly surprised with as I was expecting something more like a 1:4 ratio at this point. My main strat is to do the EX dash punch move (forward-back-Y?) at the very start of a match, as that's usually a fairly safe way of knocking someone down, and then I just try to get them into a corner and hammer them with punches -- usually alternating between his basic 3-punch combo and then a few low punches and an uppercut. When they're down, the slow back-X (?) overhead punch is quite good as if it connects it will knock them into the air, so you can then follow up with another uppercut.
I can usually win games vs. players of a similar or slightly better skill set to me, primarily because Jax has a few 'cheap' moves that deal a lot of damage, and he seems quite good at keeping someone in a corner. My main problems are against Scorpion spammers (it seems around one in every two-three games is vs. a Scorpion player, and they rarely show any variety) who try to zone you by using that downward demon kick over and over and over. God damn, I hate that so much. I have managed to beat quite a few, though, which is always satisfying because you just know they will be raging.
Any tips for a noob?