Are Mileena's sais underutilized?

NerdyJordy

NerdyJordy

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In UMK3, the three female assassins/ ninjas were pretty level in that they all had close-range combos with their weapons but Mileena seems like she was shorted in the reboot and her gameplay with them kind of takes me back to MK: Gold when the sais were just an accessory to her (and likewise for Kitana and her fans, at the time) for specials and her fatality.

Agree? Disagree? Thoughts?
 
Well, they could have included them in some of her combos, I guess. But at at least she does still have some normal moves that use them.
 
NerdyJordy said:
In UMK3, the three female assassins/ ninjas were pretty level in that they all had close-range combos with their weapons but Mileena seems like she was shorted in the reboot and her gameplay with them kind of takes me back to MK: Gold when the sais were just an accessory to her (and likewise for Kitana and her fans, at the time) for specials and her fatality.

Agree? Disagree? Thoughts?
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If you take a look at Mortal Kombat II you'll notice that Kitana and Mileena used their weapons also just for their specials and fatalities.

In Mileena case it's OK as they designed her move set pretty neat: Animation of sai materialization and dematerialization but as far as Kitana concerned, they should be more accurate. A materialization or/and dematerialization sequence (MS/DMS) while taking out her fans would be appropriate. Or a combination of two fans in her boots and a MS/DMS.


But adding more moves with the weapons under the prerequisite of appropriate drawing and sheathing animations, would be something I would clearly appreciate :)

Without appropriate drawing and sheathing animations an addition of new moves regarding weapons would seem somehow IMHO cheap.
 
I agree /\ about Kitanas fans as well. Mileenas sai materialize and Jades staff is always in her hand and just extends when she uses it in attacks. So something similar for Kitana would make sense. Why they left it out kind of baffles me now that you brought it up.
Regarding Mileenas sai. I would have liked them implemented into more of her combos but her style is alot more vicious, whereas Kitana is more graceful. So bare hand clawing attacks and lots of kicks makes more sense as far as her character is concerned IMO. But I still would like to see her use them more though.
 
i was thinking about this the other day too, i like mileenas combos but i feel like they had to incorporate it in her combos more.
 
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