Hilarious that the guy in a suit built specifically to take down Kryptonians can't hang with a Kryptonian.

“Even Kabal could do it it because of course he can” had me giggling.

I love how titaniumtiger proved how crazy sheeva stomp was by winning an entire mk tournament only spamming it.

Its funny you mentioned "imagine a big character with struggling with zoning vs an amazing zoner" when Tager vs Hazama was so bad in this fashion that it made Mike Z create Skullgirls out of pure salt

Lex was such a weird character. I played a lot of him and he had such a goofy match up spread against the top tiers where he had stuff like the Zod matchup but was also one of the few with an advantage vs Aquaman

"Must I remind you of my superiority?" "Must I remind you of my Glock?"

I always believed NRS is the reason post SF4 FGC hates zoners so much

the lex/zod match up looks like the real life matchup of unarmed guy and guy with a gun

Alien vs grandmaster Sub-Zero in MKX should be on here imo. The tail completely ignoring the ice clone broke all sub-zero players for months

Jade: Oh no, a zoner. Good thing I have Glow. It's literally the only good thing I have! Kenshi: Hah... Nah, I ignore that. Jade: ... This is 9-1, isn't it?

I dont know how feasible this is but PLEASE make a part 2 to this. Its so fun seeing just one part of a character blown up and put in focus on a competitive level, and this video is the perfect stage for that type of content.

Fun fact, Vanilla SF4 Sagat vs. Hugo (forgot what version) in USF4 Edition Select is considered a 10-0 matchup because Hugo can't duck high fireball.

The speed diff going from mk9 Jax to mk11 Sheeva and collector is so funny

I hope if Lex returns in a potential Injustice 3 that they go with a sleeker suit design and let him actually be kinda quick.

There's also launch Superman vs. Ares in Injustice 1 since Superman could just put Ares in a block infinite at round start with F23 -> breath if he doesn't have meter to armor through his attacks. And even then Superman's trait breaks armor anyway. And if he did manage to send Superman full screen and broke the block infinite, he would still zone Ares out.

Who remembers MKX pre-nerfed Shinnok (Imposter) having an infinite against Jax? Steal ground-pound, which leaves Jax in a state where all you can do is block afterwards, use said-stolen move that’s unblockable and sends him in the air, repeat.

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Solomon Grundy vs raven was another weirdly one sided match up because of how simple it was. Raven had one string that would make her grab immune that was safe on block and edged out any of Grundy's normals while pushing him backwards. since she was airborne it also made her unable to be grabbed by his trait, his walking corpse, that tracking ground move, or his other command grab too. Grundy could technically back dash out of range of the string but to do so you'd have to be at a very specific range since the string advanced and Grundy had a terrible back dash. If you got hit by it, you'd get sent full screen and then have to slowly make your way back in again. Really tough. The only nice thing was, if memory serves, Grundy could stuff and or armor through all of her wakeup options, should you happen to score a knockdown. Grundy vs hawk girl also sucked, since Grundy couldn't do anything to get hg out of the air

Great vid! Just 1 very small correction (I think), level one of captain colds trait doesn't hurt people in the close proximity to him, but if they hit him with a non projectile :)

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What I got from the number 5 clip is that captain cold is what I call a snowball fighter. They take a little set up but once they get it their unstoppable

The KOF 13 Music throughout this video was a pleasant surprise

Fitting that captain cold as a flash Villain has a very good match up vs the flash himself and two other really agile characters

I was a Black Canary main in I2 and while she struggled against zoners in general, there was no more unfair matchup than her versus Deadshot. It was a lot like Zod vs Luthor except Black Canary is small with tiny limbs and no projectiles. I used to have people who I’d just beat switch to him, despite having little or no experience, beat me just because it was all but impossible to get in.

Hearing that Johnny Cage one makes me want to see a JC history now. Hopefully can happen eventually

The one I suffered through was playing Nightwolf in the first few patches of MK9, where Jax had a blockstring infinite on only Nightwolf for some reason. One of his strings was just bugged to be airtight into itself, on only Nightwolf. Worse, if memory serves, they didn't patch it for a long time.

More than anything else, this video highlights NRS's obsession with zoning.

Its too bad that there's no "good character against bad character" because launch Bane vs Deathstroke was unwinnable. He couldn't even jump the projectiles because his muscles were filled with helium, venom was real bad back then, and his dash was so slow that you couldn't do it between projectiles. If he got in, Deathstroke had so many escape options and Bane would have to risk losing all of his pressure just to avoid getting blown back to full screen, and that's a big "if" when his fastest button was 9 frames and his best button was 11. That's not even mentioning that Deathstroke could literally backdash away faster than Bane was able to dash towards him. Or launch Superman vs Bane, where Bane didn't even get the benefit of armor and lord forbid you eat the 82% heat beam into 2 frame super. I'm so glad Bane got better but man it was hard to justify being a Bane player in vanilla injustice 1.

The last clip reminded me of playing IJ2 a lot. I used to be a scarecrow main…. My brother was a deadshot, darkseid and Batman main, I never was more in love with the crouch position in my life. I was stuck crouching for at least minutes at a time. It was aggravating

This was dope, more of these would be awesome, always cool to learn match up history.

I had multiple experiences against sheevas where, because I played jaded jade at the time, I spent the entire game time... Entire... In command run. When I had meter I could cancel to kick for punish, but without my timing had to be right to somersault and start running again before they landed again. It wasn't fun, besides knowing I ruined their day the same way they were trying to ruin others lmao.

Starfire vs aquaman is a severely bad mu to the point it’s unwinnable for Aquaman Sf wins 7-3 Black adam bodies Aquaman 7-3 Atom destroys atrocitus 7-3, and swamp thing 7-3s atrocitus Atrocitus 7-3s aquaman Brainiac 7-3s aquaman and black adam Batman 7-3s brainiac and scarecrow Doctor fate 7-3s freen arrow Aquaman 7-3s darkseid Atom beats manta 7-3 All those mus are way worse then captain cold vs catwoman And grundy vs hawkgirl is 9-1 worse then zod and lex Deadshot gets 7-3d by black adam, batman, flash 9-1d by enchantress

I am disappointed with that lex vs zod match up that's not even supposed to be fair in a fighting game.

I just hope he brings up Raiden vs Jackie Briggs being a 10 - 0 match up in mkx.

You should also add goro vs tremor, after tremor flexes, he punishes every single Sting and special, goros projectile is so slow it's impossible to stop him flexing up.

I appreciate how active you guys have been lately.

Thanks for explaining these matches, great video

Appreciate that KOF XIII music during the vid! Oh and the vid itself was great :D

Honorable mention to the pre-DLC era for Injustice 1... Solomon Grundy was absolutely INVALIDATED by vanilla Deathstroke. Hoo, wee.

Great video, and I like the idea of using Kof XIII's character select in the intro.

I'm glad you are busting out the content, I'm glad to be here for y'all

“ even Kabel, BECAUSE OF COURSE HE CAN” got me good haha

Wishing the best for you! Great entertaining and educational content.

Watching captain cold drop that massive ice black and sit behind it immediately made me think of steve in smash bros

I love the kof music in the background

11:45 "this game had few matchups the community would argue is an 8:2 mu" i do not fucking believe you in a game where sheeva exists and kabal also exist

I *absolutely* called the number one matchup before I got to it in the video. I didn't actually commentate that match though, despite my name being listed at the bottom. And it's a good thing I didn't, because...I would have had little more to say than how terrible it looked. That's not even a slight on the players, it was just one of *those* matchups. Stellar video as always.

you forgot injustice 1 hawkgirl 10 - 0 solomon grundy . there is no way grundy can touch hawkgirl if she is flying on the top of the stage

Great video!

Watching a rushdown/grappler character struggle for almost a whole minute to get in on a zoner, only get sent back to fullscreen in one hit - or even on block - always hurts my soul.

this was a great idea for a video !!

Yall forgetting Master of Storm Raiden vs High Tech Jacqui. That's a 10-0 lol

Man im really loving the new direction of list/video essay type videos. Even if you guys arent as well versed with other games as you are with mk, you guys are great at researching so i would love to see u guys branch out. much love

Always love these vids to say the least, but I had to comment on the appreciated use of one of my favorite KOF songs.

cool to see some injustice content. i cant take the game seriously at all even though i want to but maybe that will change with more K&M videos

Nobody can talk about shivas mk11 stomp without saying that they don't think it was as strong as its reputation

Maybe not that relevant competetivly but i remember in mkx imposter shinnok vs ferra/torr was pretty bad cause every reset was just a free 19% grab for shinnok

MK9 Sektor, that's it, that's all you need, *Sektor*

the only grace i give to zoning characters is if the need to sacrfice something to zone, or the input is difficult enough to make spamming difficult. any other reason and zoners are just trash tow atch and oppressive to play against.

I think the interview with Tigerz and Dragon. And Tigerz take was well explained and he agreed with your take.

"Competitive Netherrealm Games" hilarious combination of words

I think NRS loves to make zoners because they just aren't creative martially. Stiff animations, so injustice was a zone game.

Kano main here, Kano gets destroyed by most ninjas, mainly Sub Zero

Nice Kof music 🙏

What about high tech jacqui vs GM sub or master of storms raiden, those are both 9-1 matchups at the minimum

Kitana vs Kenshi Absolutely unplayable, even worse for her than Jade. Easy 7-3, and MAYBE even 8-2 matchup. Watch 16-bit Kitana vs Pig of the Hut Kenshi

Captain cold igloo vs catwoman is the pinnacle of ggs shake my hand

Dude for some reason I remembered the time where Sonicfox destroyed Pig Of athe Hut when he was Batgirl.

Zod as a character and many of his abilities make him one of my favourite looking character in fighting games so far i just never understood why some things on his h Kit were so OP when abused laser should never push back on block for example or push just one spot and that jumping ball projectile should have more recovery to it. I was always playing him normally and his combos where so fun and great looking to this day.

Remember according to the FGC using Zod and constant projectiles like a chump is zoning not spam. Pretty sad that even in tourneys this is commendable.

The KOF13 soundtracks were a nice touch to the video.

Another good video

Yall are spoiling us with content lately :)

Grundy vs Hawkgirl in INJ1 was atrocious

That last one is similar to what I saw in Injustice 2 on a pro scene. Batman vs Scarecrow. OMG was that boring to watch!

What about launch Superman vs. Ares in Injustice: Gods Among Us?

These videos are teaching me how to play mortal Kombat properl

I was truly expecting the number 1 to be just literally Kenshi against the whole MK9 cast, man didn't have a single losing nor even matchup. It was basically "alright, if I am half competent at the game I can win against every character"

Great video.

This video reminded me why I sadly had no fun playing injustice 2

Keep the hits coming man

Love this

I also got that kabal block at the beginning

This reminds me of if a tree falls in the woods, does it really make a sound? If netherrealm makes a fighting game is it really a competitive fighting game?

Surprised there wasn’t one for Mortal Kombat X

Kung Lao vs Spawn and Robocop in MK11 is just a nightmare for Lao

There is one MKX I think is even worse. What can exactly High Tech Jacqui do vs Master of Storms Raiden? The dude can simply throw static trap behind and static trap front the whole match without Jacqui ever being able to do anything. Her only chance is getting the first hit. I remember watching that matchup in one of Destroyers Tournaments, and the dude was beyond bamboozled. He said it was the first 10-0 matchup he had ever seen.

i never know when they switch back and forth and cant even tell whos who

i loved the sheeva stomp section, while it was kinda a broad exception learning about it was cool. also when the topic of "fighting game clip that ends the moment a character reaches their win condition" came up a while back, i really wanted to just post the tournament zod vs. lex luthor fight but it ends the moment "ROUND ONE, BEGIN" plays

Has anyone ever considered in these tournies that maybe just ban spamming an attack more than 3 times in a set time span? Like, it would be literally the end of bad matchups as almost 90% of everything wrong with them are literal spam characters.

I'm surprised you don't have a Johnny Cage competitive history video yet...

matchup and custard

Sometimes I forget about lex Zod. Scary stuff.

This is gonna drive me insane lol what is the theme at the end of the video? I know I've heard it countless times but I just can't remember it for the life of me

Sonicfox is a coward. That MKX tournament he unfairly won by spamming "acidic alien" was pathetic. Cheap and cowardly. I lost all my respect for him that day!

Dynamite video!

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Jeez Captain Cold has a lot of ice trap moves.

Can someone link the specific intro music?

I love the Injustice games