top tier


aquaman


green arrow


batman


shazam

black adam

cyborg


broken charachters

superman wonderwoman ( look at mk vs dcu as the reason)

Man, it's hard to say. The things that make any character good are mobility, range, and damage.

Going by that standard, my guess the best will be Cyborg because of his Ambiguous Cross-ups and zoning. All the mid-range characters like Aquaman and Batman will be viable if not good. Mobility like Flash, Shazam and (especially) Raven will most likely be very strong.

The only character I'm concerned about is Bane. Grundy has a lockdown move to start his offense, and Lex has armor... what does Bane got? All the damage in the world doesn't matter if you can't bridge the gap.

Yeah, about that...

^Hey I think MK9 was balanced well, all of the characters had good potential if you put enought time and effort into them.

Well, it's not the game isn't balance. It's just that the top 5 so ridiculously good. If Kabal, Sonya, Kenshi, and Cyrax vanished from the roster, MK9 would be one of the most balanced games ever made.

From what I've seen/read:

Top/High: Superman, Raven, Flash.

Bottom/Low: Joker (hopefully), Harley Quinn, Lex Luthor.

Grundy,Bane,Lex,Doomsday. These big characters are def low tier IMO easy targets for the fast characters and combos are probably alot easier too.

Superman, Batman, Nightwing, Flash, Green arrow, Shazam are prob top tiers they are all pretty quick and in the hands of the right user probably difficult (and annoying) lol

lol

That reminds me of a similar scenario with me and Kratos. I have discovered most of his potential, with some assistance. I'm still learning how to utilize all of it.....but that doesn't matter, for Kratos is banned from competitive tournaments.


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Cyborg looks obvious....though we still have yet to see how good his up-close game is. I also agree with Temp about mobility.

The recipe for a top-tier or close-to-top-tier character I believe is as follows:
-Very capable fighter at all ranges.
-Fast mobility.
-High damage output.

In that order.

I wouldn't worry about Doomsday. He has a lot of good anti-air options and whiff punishes, so it'll be difficult to start offense against him. His own offense is covered by the divekick and shoulder charge, so on paper at least, he should be fine tier-wise.

And Lex... we'll see. I need to know more about his shield application before judging.

I forgot about Green Arrow, though. He's a definite candidate for high-tier.

Flash will be the Kabal of this game. Just no projectiles.

I'd probably add meter (building, etc) somewhere to that list.

how can one speculate without playing ?

We are simply basing our speculations off of what we have seen in videos, my good sir. We'll never truly know who's top-tier till several months have gone by after the game releases. Until then, we just chat the time away.