I may have been silent in this thread for a few days, but the Killer Instinct arena has been filled with the impact sounds of fisticuffs and the clangor of the ringside bell! I have been pushing myself hard working on TJ, and learning what things work well to combo together, or how to force people to stand still while I punch them. I’m getting better at reading what people like to do against TJ, and I am becoming more adept at going for recaptures and flipouts, too.
Tusk is becoming a bit less of a problem. I’m slowing myself down a bit and baiting out his deflect normals like I do with DPs; I’m also going for Shoot Toss a bit more, as well.
Against a Rash who is constantly using Heavy Wrecking Ball, I’m not entirely sure what to do. If he gets me backed up into the corner, I sometimes get stuck. It’s definitely a matter of blocking and making sure to land the right normal after; the one which has worked most for me has been Spin Fist.
I’m finding a lot of players get caught off guard by switching up cr. HKs, throws, and the df. HP overhead, plus the occasional neutral jump. It works especially well in the corner, but bullying people that way can take off a large amount of my opponents’ health without being in a combo. It’s been fun to “train” people to block the sweep and then switch it up to the overhead. It doesn’t always work, but it’s fun when it does.
It is my pleasure to share the following matches with you;
So, I found myself looking at this screen after a few hours of play;
DARE I DREAM?
With some hard work and the advice and suggestions from everyone here, TJ is the first character in the Skeletal Ranked Challenge that I have successfully reached Killer with! It feels really good. Reaching Killer Tier with Thunder was amazing, but I expected that one day I would eventually make my way there. With the SRC, I consider a Challenge month successful if I can reach Gold tier; TJ reaching Killer was far beyond my expectations, to be perfectly honest. I’m enjoying this character a whole lot, and I think I can safely say TJ joins Thunder and Kim in my go-to-character arsenal.
Thanks again for all your advice and interest in these challenges, I will post up some clips and musings from the run towards Top 32! Not that I have a PRAYER of reaching it, but hey, it’s worth seeing how many points I can accumulate in the next couple of weeks, right?