Scorpion is not that strong of a character. One wrong read as a Scorpion player and you're going to eat a 30% combo. He's high risk high reward, which is not consistent. Any decent player will be able to read almost any Scorpion player and punish them hard.
Don't get me wrong I don't think he's even close to being OP or anything. But he's not THAT WEAK.
He's not a 6.46 while sindels is like a whole digit above him?
See your comparing a scorpion player to a noob again. A scorpion player is just as capable of getting in your mind with his high risk high reward. They are not easily readable.
"Any decent player will be able to read almost any scorpion player and punish them hard." Same can be said for the reverse such as... "Any decent scorpion player will be able to read their opponent even on reaction, and punish them hard."
And those "moves" that lead to him getting owned. Are perfectly reactionairy.
You can react to a block or a crouch with hellfire. You don't need to throw it out at risk.
You can react to a jump with teleport or spear. You don't have to commit to doing spear at random times.
If they are dash blocking, He's got you scared and he can usually apply his 50/50 pressure. which one of them is safe on block when at the right spacing.
he doesn't have to start off the 50/50, he can condition you to block high or low. So his call out will be more accurate. If he keeps doing 1,1, into trip. You'll have to start trying to block low. Then he can safely go for overhead. If you always stand block his jump in punch and continue stand blocking. He can do his F4, into spear for a 38%
You are acting like his moves are a pure guessing game and it's 60/40 against him.
I seem to remember a scorpion player DESTROYING one of the top 8 EVO kitana players not too long ago after EVO. He's not as garbage as this thread is depicting him. He's strong enough to win tournaments (which he did in california agianst that kitana player I mentioned)
when have we seen sindel in grand finals? oh right never. Jade? oh right never. And they are both WAY higher than scorpion on this list.
they shouldn't be above scorpion when scorpion has a better track record. and can handle just about any matchup. while kenshi/jade/sindel have hard counters out there for them.
Anyways my point is.... people voting about characters they don't even know. That's why I don't want to partake.
Cyber sub zero is pretty strong, but I dunno about being above Kitana/cyrax lol. Perhaps after the patch on cyrax. But at the time this was being voted is obviously before the upcoming patch. So it's crazy for me to see that.
things would be alot more accurate if say for instance when Jade was put up the mantle if I could explain ALL the weaknesses/strengths and situational problems/advantages. So people were educated about her meta-game, it would make things more accurate before voting.
Then great discussion can embark, then once discussion is closed, then the voting beings.
But this isn't my thread. So I chose not to join in.