Going on tier level, Smoke is the best Robot Ninja, however, here are some explanations.
One pop up combo from Sektor, and it's all over for either Cyrax or Smoke, depending on how far from the corner you are, because Sektor can unblockably relaunch them both. Sektor has the smart missiles which can be annoying, however, when you see Sektor do one, run in and if your character has a 3 or 4 hit combo, do it, and the missile will explode on the last hit and do no damage. As long as Sektor has been comboed to the ground it won't hit, it's a very good counter Sektor tactic and renders smart missiles useless.
Smoke's air throw alone makes him the most formidable, it has such a wide grab area, and the fact he has a harpoon just puts him way out there.
There are really no weaknesses for him other than relaunch infinites from Sektor, but all the robots share this vulnerability to practically every character with a pop up combo, except Reptile, I think he's the only one in UMK3 who can relaunch anyone. Smoke also has a 54% combo that is relatively easy to do, an anti air HP, canceled to the teleport uppercut, the walk in, HP, harpoon, to ground combo, or, and this is harder, an anti JK, but in order for it to be useful you should be near the corner, and in that case, you can get a roundhouse after the teleport uppercut and combo the spear off the roundhouse, to ground combo, resulting in 74%. If comboing the harpoon off the roundhouse is difficult, using HP will still result in 63%, which could still be a match deciding combo.
Cyrax has a few things about him that are good, the net can come out instantly as he takes a hit, and still catch the person, unlike the harpoon, which comes out instantly and doesn't dizzy the opponent if he takes a hit. After the net, start with a straight up HK and do Cyrax's 6 hit combo and it's like 42%, which is a huge deal for an easy stand alone combo. Bombs are ok, but you have to get a positive roundhouse out in order to enure that you won't get completely mugged for using one. In a situation with a definite roundhouse, it would be easiest out of a net. A roundhouse is 18%, it would make more sense just to use the 42% combo instead.
Matt
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