5 SEVERELY BAD MATCHUPS In Competitive Netherrealm Games

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 :)

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.