I hear ya man, I had a very very easy way out...kobra. I swear that kobra and noob-smoke are the cheapest playable characters on that game. all I did was keep pressin 1,1,4,4 (which knocks him back) the I did my low and high fireballs in variation...tore him up! lol
I used noob-smoke to beat kobra in the neatherealm and it was too easy. Kobra got 2 hits in on me and it lowered my life to like 10 percent (he had like 500% strength) but I just kept using f,f+4 or d,b+4. yes it is very cheap but you gotta do what you gotta do
oh ya i had it on novice too rofl...me so cheapo