Use Rage mode to break his block, and even if he uses the unblockable lightning you can still wail on him in rage mode.

Interesting post. So does doing b1 take skill? does doing 4,3,d/f1 take skill? Not really. Pretyt much anybody can do the various combos and techniques you see in a fighting game with some excpetions such as parrying certain supers in 3s or lightwave dashing in tekken.

Skill in a fighting game is not in what moves you use at all. Skill in fighting games comes from your ability to get around your opponents techniques. Combos strings normal moves special moves and pro moves are not difficult at all in MK and they take no skill to pull off discounting some of the more absurd and impractical combos of course.

Lets take a look at my Jax. I am considered to be the best Jax player on ps3 and possibly on 360 as well. My jax game is on pro missles to keep away the machine gun to anti air and ground pounds when they are guaranteed off certain moves or occasionally to catch somebody who isn't paying attention due to the barrage of missles being shot at them. I am also responsible for creating some of his highest damage practical combos b2,b2,b1,b1,1,3,d/b2,1,f2 is 56% and the more practical version would be b1,b1,1,2,d/b2,1,f2 which is about 43%. Jax is relatively slow up close and even his b1 which is good usually will trade at best with an opponent. Most of the time b1 is reserved for punishing. UP close you can b3 for a so so 50/50. In addition to the missles and machine gun you build a lot of meter firing missles so you can use a combo breaker to push your opponent back.

After reading over that strat you can say you don't sound that great all you do is basic moves. Which is 100% true yet top players say I've got a great or the best jax. So whats the difference? Why can I beat people with jax using a basic technique and other people fall short using the same technique? Simple I'm better at overcoming my opponents coutner strategy. I'm better at implementing my own strategy. I pick my spots better than others do. Obviously from this example the skill of a player is shown not by their regular/special move/combo ability but purely by their ability to overcome their opponents counterstrategy.

In other words if somebody can't get past kano's knives what is the point of doing something else? Realistically if you spam the same move like that you should be easy to beat because you're telling your opponent EXACTLY what you plan to do. If you know whats coming and can't get around it you got outplayed plain and simple. You have no grounds to complain and you really have no grounds to claim you're better than the person who just beat you because you felt they won "cheaply" or they lacked skill. The truth is your subconcious is angry at yourself for not being able to overcome a basic and simple strategy. Instead of blaming yourself and/or using it to improve yourself you project this on your opponent. Clearly they have no skill and you would have won if they hadn't done the same move over and over. That is faulty logic. All you can really say is I should look to improve to avoid this technique you consider cheap/cheesy. I mean seriously if I hit you with a ground pound and you keep rolling to the side and I keep doing the ground pound is that my fault for doing the ground pound or your fault for not learning how to quick recover?

yeah you are right joker but while that good gamer is trying to find out how to get around the problem, their win to loss ratio is getting worse and the little prick that spamms, is getting a better score. Finally, you find a way to beat the little shit, and he quits. then you have to do it with the next one. Where does that leave you on the leaderboards or even having fun?!

Ran into a Flash player who was using a supposed infinite (at least it's claimed as one on youtube). This one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGJcXhDisY4

The combo meter ended, but I was unable to block, break, or rage out of it in any way. Not sure if it's an engine exploit.

How come nobody has mentioned green lanterns infinite?? Smashes you with the hammer 3 TIMES!! That is insane. Those people deserve to be punished.

The hell are you talking about? Three hits is designed in the game to be his Pro move. It isn't even close to an infinite. The developers spent time, intentionally, to purposely give Green Lantern the ability to do an overhead hammer up to 3 times in a row with perfect timing.

Next you will tell me that Scorpion doing a double teleport into an unblockable flame move is an infinite too.

Besides, anyone who can overcome the lag to do GL's triple hammer online deserves it.

got that right.

Superman, Flash infinite abusers etc, etc just avoid these scrubs...

I know exactly what you mean, I've had my fare of scrubs that keep using that move only on the entire match. It can get as annoying as the ground pound infinite, but it's not really an infinite. I just fucking hate players who use the same move over and over again, makes you want to punch a puppy!

Why? Isn't it incredibly predictable, thus making it easy to beat?

Not only that, but it's a specific-range move. It only hits from a distance, leaving you enough time to sidestep and dash in front of its range

Don't really see Supermans inf as a cheat if ur fast enough u can easily escape and jump over it.
or use ur rage. or pick same charcter.
any ways it sure sucks dude.

He has skill. He is skilled enough to win.

I will not give a rat's ass about the opponents feeling, we are plazing a game competitively. You aim to win since it is the purpose of the game, and your gaming activity come to think about it.

Adapt.