I'm so glad I stuck with noob as my second main all this time...

Don't block crouch dash then, just block dash.

I'm so used to Noob Saibot's shadow charge, not hitting as an overhead, that now I fall prey to it too often now and I feel so dumb doing so, but my Stryker and Sheeva have always struggled with Noob, though with his new buffs, we're required to play extra smart.

The high, low block dance is going to gain some popularity.



People only have armor on enhanced moves though and not everyone has armored moves that stop zoning from a far distance.

The only characters that should give Shang Tsung hell from afar is other zoners( Sektor, Sindel, Noob) as examples.

I've not witnessed the armor, but Noob has become more of a pian since the patch what with the clone being an overhead now.

I feel like shang tsung is so garbage. How come they didn't buff this character already? Ok so he can do 80% combos in training mode.... big deal. In a real fight, he has no good wakeup attacks and the soulsteal startup as wakeup is so SLOW that the opponent jabs me and interruppts the soul steal wakeup.

The startup on the skulls is so slow too. The stright skull takes 1 second to leave his hands cause he "charges it", if I triple straight skull exchance with any projectile in the entire game, their projectile will hit me before my my 2nd and 3rd skull come out so its a waste of a bar.

This guy gets raped when he gets knocked down.... He should be #1 priority with White hyper armor on wake-ups. Him and Sheeva since they should be boss like characters. Soul Steal should have unlimited hyper armor on it and cannot be interruppted by anything (kind of like Kung laos spin priority), on wake-up attack and on ex version.

noob saibot just became a bastard to deal with, how the hell did they make him even more powerful? i suggest sektor and scorpion to beat him. good luck.

I can handle Noob, as long as I can grab him. Once he's too close, it's pretty much all over for him.

I'll move this to the Strategy forum. You'll get good discussions about character matchups there.