Mike Riazy
Balls of Steel
I give Noob a 7. While he might be able to zone, he has few options up close against most characters.
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Cyber Sub-Zero
+Insane mobility (amazing dash + dive kick) makes it easy for him to get around zoning characters and close distance quickly
+Dive kick is hard to punish for some slower characters
+He has slide, teleport, ice blast, dive kicks and bombs to counter zone
+Ice counter makes rushdown and mixup chars hesitant to attack or press buttons
+Very good rushdown, good damage output
+Good mixups with very fast high and low pokes. Can jail and outpoke opponents easily. Mixes it up with throw and ice counter.
+Some nice bomb traps and shens (especially in the corner)
+X-ray beats air to air and anti-air attacks, good counter vs zoners too
Definitely S or very near S tier in my book.
9/10
Cyber Sub-Zero
+Insane mobility (amazing dash + dive kick) makes it easy for him to get around zoning characters and close distance quickly
+Dive kick is hard to punish for some slower characters
+He has slide, teleport, ice blast, dive kicks and bombs to counter zone
+Ice counter makes rushdown and mixup chars hesitant to attack or press buttons
+Very good rushdown, good damage output
+Good mixups with very fast high and low pokes. Can jail and outpoke opponents easily. Mixes it up with throw and ice counter.
+Some nice bomb traps and shens (especially in the corner)
+X-ray beats air to air and anti-air attacks, good counter vs zoners too
Definitely S or very near S tier in my book.
9/10
The Prima guide was so shitty overall though, I wouldn't be surprised if they based that off an alpha build of the character and they made him better after that, or maybe the match ups/tier lists were based off of just going into the game, doing a quick training session with each character, and then fighting with them, so they didn't really know how to play CSZ yet as well as the characters that they already knew how they worked.Well what I wonder is why the Prima Games guide places CSZ in the s**t tier, if he's really S tier? Maybe NRS wanted Prima to do it, so that the player base would underestimate CSZ.