I can't deny that perhaps Nightwolf has increased your success only you know that. But to say he doesn't have good air combat?
-Anti air Shadow up knee
-Anti air teleport
Teleport:
-Can combo off his jump punch(When both people collide in mid air at the same time)
-Can combo off of jump kick(Same as punch)
Univerals:
Nuetral jump punch
Nuetral Jump kick
Forward/Back kick/punch
Uppercut(upnkee is better, but uppercut is still an option)
Even his SHADOW CHARGE can anti air. you just have to not be predictable. It can't hit them at full peak. but it can hit them on rise/fall. Can't tell you how many times I can catch people's feet with the shadow's head, and knocked them out of the sky.
He may not have a jumping Projectile like kitana/sindel. But his clone has such a huge hitbox.... If he had a tool similar to kitana's fans.... well My good sir Noob would be OP.
His up-knee shadow has close range only and leaves Noob Saibot vulnerable to be punished. It's not a great anti-air combat tool if you ask me although he gets his job done, but you of course disagree. His teleport is easily punishable if blocked and I multiple times avoided it by just jumping away. His shadow charge IS NOT a good anti-air in my opinion, but may work as such. I actually find Cyrax's net to have a better anti-air annoyance. So, I don't think Noob Saibot has that much of a good anti-air fight as you may want it to seem. I didn't say it was non-existent in him though.
It does matter... you said enhanced... you won't have enhanced every second of the game if you are burning them for EVERY single shadow. Infact most people have a ENHANCED move that gets them through noob's zoning. It's your get out of zone free card that you get a few times a match. But Noob saibot can call you out on this and make you waste meter. What if I threw a clone. You blocked... decided i'll now enhanced shoulder charge his next shadow... but come to find out I uppercut you out of it. And don't say you can't. Because I uppercut nightwolfs out of their enhanced shoulder charge all the time.
I almost only use meter bars for enhanced shoulder against Noob Saibot. It deals 16% each. About 3 times to use in a fight - 48% more or less, and enhanced shoulder allows me to rush Noob Saibot and gets close to him. If I block a wake-up special, even better. Btw, enhanced shoulder is very, very, very, VERY hard to punish by an uppercut because it hits you overhead once gets close to you and it's so damn fast. Are you sure you're familiar with Nightwolf? You apparently forgot that I can do enhanced shoulder when you're throwing a clone and I still get you because I have hyper armor. It's IMPOSSIBLE for you to even consider uppercut me when you're still in recovery animation after throwing a shadow clone.
I know I said noob's EX charge can beat nightwolf's reflect(Which does work.. it just doesn't send it back at noob. the shadow runs into the background) So you might say... well you can only do that a few times too.
As I said, it's POINTLESS to do reflect against Noob Saibot. I never use reflect in any of my Noob Saibot's fight. Blocking clone and enhanced clones are more that enough.
Everyone destroys Noob in close combat.
Exactly Sindel has a decent upclose game, which is why Noob is the better Zoner if he's having somewhat equal success if not better than sindel is. Using a specific character is unfair anyways to show "Who's the best zoner"
I actually said that Noob Saibot has a much more zoner gameplay in this game, but Sindel can be more of a pain in the ass. On PS3 I can assure you can find at least 3 huge win ratios by people who just use Sindel.
As I said. I play Jade. I can walk through all of sindels projectiles Enhanced or not. I cannot walk through all of noobs when he has EX available. Because of this Noob can Zone me STILL to some degree. Sindel might as well brush up on her up close game while fighting my jade.
Jade is a different matter. Jade's ability to be invisible to projectiles is different from Nightwolf's reflector. While Jade's special works on normal shadows, Nightwolf's doesn't, so as Nightwolf I'd never care using them in a whole match, he'd never catch me with an enhanced shadow by surprise, because I never use that special.
See how I used 1 character to prove you wrong? you have to discuss the entire cast if you want to do this.
I don't see exactly where you proved me wrong...
