Man I wish that I had a HaugePauge. All I have is AverMedia and they aren't nearly as good as they let on. They came out later and specialize in games but record in a format that isn't recognized by most editing software. Meaning you have to convert it first. Which only lowers the quality :(
Hey Max! Awesome stuff!! I main Nightwing, and what I've found that works is: Whenever you get in close with the batons, you can play a footsie type of game and continual do low taps and then go immediately into his overhead (qcb A) It's been working for me and I've found it's relatively safe against most characters. You can do this with the staff too if you continually tap low and go into his overhead (y). That's just how I play, but I still have much to learn with Mr. Dick Grayson.
For Grundy, the grab where he walks forward has 3 hits of armor, you can't poke him out of it. Jump out of it when you see it coming. And yeah, Grundy has pretty good frame traps. His trait grab "Solomon Grundy, born on a Monday" has about 13f startup, so he can just cancel into it while you're in blockstun. The hands are a low projectile. For his super, just dash under him if he jumps, or jump over him if he walks towards you. He can't dash during his super, so to cover distance he has to jump.
Learned something today. Grundy's walking forward grab can be blocked by another grab. It simply nulls them. Not sure if it needs for be a command grab or if it's just the normal grab command that every character gets.
As a Solomon Grundy player. The best advice I can give is to play as safe as possible. Use intractables to escape incoming grabs. Grundy only has armor on his charge so either jump or dash back like hell. Also using meter to pushback helps as well. Zoning can be a counter but you always have to be careful for his swamp hands. Otherwise you are left wide open.
Not too sure if someone has said this Max, but Black Adams trait does not cause block stun nor hot stun, so you can tech that grab. Even in combos he doesn't gain any extra advantage when using the trait, only extra damage.
I played some nightwings with Grundy, and I hate dealing with the stick. Those pokes beat out everything I do except for the running grab, which seems to whiff if you do the overhead before it hits.
Max Grundy's character trait is an unblockable mid hitting throw chain that can provide stat buffs and when he uses a meter burn the grab gets a hit of armor.
It probably does, Grundy's armor during super is like Doomsday's. He gets a huge defense buff and can't get knocked down or launched but he can be interrupted pretty easily. The only thing you could do in that scenario would be to jump at him, but the low poke would probably still move him out of range unless you time the air-to-ground grab perfectly.
That grab is Grundy's character power, so that may be why it can be combo'd into and neglects the block stun. A bunch of his special moves can get armor at the expense of meter if not mistaken as well. This is just what I can remember from a couple of practice sessions with him. Try him out to find his weaknesses! Take a walk in his zombie shoes.
I like using Nightwing's down, back, heavy with the pole arm against the Grundy and Bane because it hits so many times it breaks through the armor they get with all those grabs
Man it's so great to see you figure stuff out, you went from noob to pro in 2 youtube vids :P Keep going! Would love to see a week of some unpopular character like Hawkgirl :D
Max in addition when Bane uses his character power it adds armor to all of his specials but when it wears off and needs to recharge he takes more damage from your attacks.
I've also seen that Grundy has a REALLY tough time with Flash in a couple of videos. Flash's rushdown just has so many hits so fast that his armor does nothing to stop it, so Flash might be a good counter to armor-based guys like Grundy and Bane.
Nice stuff Max. Love main-ing Catwomen but my friend plays ONLY Grundy. Best advice is pick your spots. Any wiff from grundy on a grab and you can get off your favorite combo. Stay mid-range then go in when you see your opening, slow startup on Grundy's moves is also something to take advantage of. Once the grab chains though all you can do is watch Grundy bounce you like a basketball. Love the vids max, also thanks for getting me hype about this game! Originally I was going to pass on it.
Hehehe, I came here just after watching Level 100 Aggron's "Breaking the Bat" series (he seems to be the only one posting Bane matches), so I was thinking of him when you were talking about the bull-rush. And behold, he's the guy you faced!
With Nightwing Max you can actually use his ground projectile to go under the grab with the string after his attacks reverse with it, and also in pole stance his attack where he like spins his pole all flamboyantly with like QCF Heavy goes through all the armor and if it doesn't cant be grabbed through because he's in crouch.
When it comes to the heavier characters, you want to play a good keepaway and setup game. With Grundy, just use the Ground Sparks (Escrima) and air WingDings (Or whatever they're called) so that you can stun them and just keep them away. Bane is easier to deal with in Staff stance. Back + Light is a good way to knock him back, and you have to predict random charges. Punish the venom, the higher the level, the more armour. Just wait for it to run out and beat him silly. Hope this helped!
against bane hangout at full screen, when he charges neutral jump and land behind him and punish. the batarangs can stop the charge unless hes at lvl 3 venom, as can the ex ground lightning. treat grundy like gief, and the poll stance is your best friend. flying grayson everytime they jump. his command grab actually is a walkup grab like giefs in sf, so just jump over and punish.
Max, Grundy's gameplan is to get in on you with his armoured command grab headbutt then combo from or into his EX swamp hands, wallbounce you into a transition or juggle you into his Trait "The Pain Chain" which leads into easy BIG damage and gives him one of 3 buffs: attack damage is the piledriver, increased defence vs chip damage when he drowns you in swamp water and increased defence vs all attacks with the one where he swings you like a ragdoll by the leg. Grundy's weak to air stuff. Do it
I've played good grundy's as nightwing. Lots of keep away and cross-ups that keep you off the ground to help prevent his invincible walk bs. Escrima stance is necessary over staff because u need that mobility to stay in the air and to zone.
Max, I got a question given that you use a stick. My stick is pretty shitty (Hori), so my layout (PS3) is L1-[]-/\-R1 L2-X-O-R2 Since I'm used to UMvC3, I made my buttons (CT=char. trait; MB=meter; I=interactive) L-M-H-Grab CT-MB-I-Stance I know most sticks have []-/\-R1-L1 X-O-R2-L2 So the default for Capcom fighters isn't so bad. Either way, it's weird for MK style fighters; the default for injustice for these sticks would be L-M-I-Throw H-CT-MB-Stance TL;DR what's your button layout like?
For grab characters zone them out and use the two hit low move into the overhead flip for mix up and ex version for free combos and dont just jump all the time.
I've found that meter burn back/forward heavy is great against Grundy and co. It beats their throws and since their normals are so slow they won't be able to break the armour most of the time. Otherwise you just have to lame them out. Hope that helps. :)
what i notice with bane is that you have to be patient with him, he's like hulk, if you block on his dashes and stuff you can beat him pretty easily and grundy is a very buffed up version of zangief
The reason your combos aren't connecting after a jump-in is because you have to kinda treat the jump-in as part of the string, from what I've played it's a little difficult to just connect a combo after your jump-in connects. Have to plan the follow-up in advance.
Max, I have a few questions for you: first off, what should i start to learn in terms of Green Lanturn? You already covered Batman, now i just need some beginners tips to starting Green Lanturns might. second, do you (or anyone here) know what Aquamans trait does? my friend wants to main him and he is clueless as to what it does.
When you are against Grundy as Nightwang just stay in pole and keep with the keep away until they get in, then switch to the other and use the multihiting nun-chuck looking thing, it breaks the armor pretty good...
Max when you fight against Bane take advantage of the cooldown on the venom cause it causes them to move slower, and their defense is piss poor. So those are your chances on dishing out some heavy damage. Plus you already know and stated about venom giving them armor, as well increasing their speed and damage. Loving the videos man keep up the good work!
no you can't meter burn his grabs until it connects with the opponent, his medium grab is blockable and whiffs on crouching opponents. His heavy grab has Armor without meter burn but cannot grab airborne opponents. His trait can be used on wake-up, but it has little to no invincibility.
When you do nightwing's throw it takes you out of his staff and into his two stick stance. If you do his special it will put you in his staff stance automatically
As a guy who plays Solomon Grundy, the best way to fight him is to run away like a wimp and spam projectiles. This makes characters like Green Lantern the bane of Grundy.
When Dick grabs he goes back to the escrima sticks. I think when he uses his super, he goes into his staff stance (i think). Similar to Wonder Woman going back to her lasso after a super. Things to keep in mind.
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yo max, grundy, while he can be scary as balls up close, does have weaknesses even in close quarters. his walking corpse move(the armoured charge with command grab) can be easily exploited by nightwang. because he wont actually grab till the end of the move is complete, itll just push nightwang till he grabs. so perform your staff spin with the pole, and itll break the charge in about half a second before he can even touch you. as for the under your feet grab, grundy will ALWAYS do it at range
so try to block low when your on the ground at range. trying to stop him when he is metering it(at range) wont work cuz it gives him 1 hit of armor for that move. and when hes close, watch out for the trait. when he meters it, it becomes VERY fast and armored for 1 hit as well(ull see it on wakeup a lot if you are close to them or jumping by them when they arent charging). other than that, watch out for his crazy anti air that you can combo off of easy, and use them high-lows and crossups(pole)
Yo. After your "target combos" (I.e. light, light, heavy) cancel into ground spark. The ground spark at the end makes just about all of them safe. ~~~~☆ *The more you know*
I've found that Grundy's suffer a mid distance fight...keeping him away and jumping over his rushing command grab. He's not safe and you can go into pretty damaging combos. The second you get close, his knife specials and grabs come out too fast for most of the cast, and he wrecks basically everyone. Thats the best advice I can give you, but fighting against him is necessary to read his movements. Remember, his CG distance is quite similar to a Bison crouching Heavy distance.
in my experience, trying to mash the wager really doesn't work. i try to take just a bit and purposefully activate it, if that makes sense. i'm having trouble doing it that way and not just mashing, but when i do manage to do it that way it seems to work consistently.
Grundy isn't the only one who can do a block string into a command grab. Shazam can do it to, he can do it to where you can't even backdash out of it to.
Grundy is a graber type chracter, Like Zangief from SF4 or any other grab type, his grabs is hard to block. The est thing to so is time your counter. Before he dash forward and grab, you jumped back and try to punish him. Or push block, that what i'l do
Yo Max! When I play Nightwing vs Grundy or Bane I use the staff pretty much the whole time and I tend to keep away unless I have full control of the fight.
you just have to jump over banes charge max.as for Grundy his back forward hard command grab where he runs at you has 3 hits if armor so you have to either grab him out if it or just neutral jump medium kick. Also if Grundy is crouched he's most likely gonna d2 you and go into a full chain grab. Also his ex hands will root you in place and he can actually dash from full screen and combo you before you can even break out. Hope that helps.
id also do is pole arm 2 hit combo... the trait on bane is when to be scared, faster, more armor and more damage, when he uses 1 2 or 3 steroid doses accordinly but when his trait ends she's going to be slow and weak slower and weaker or slowest and weakest, THATS your window. GRUNDY also benifits off his trait. Trait before meter in this game bro
Max when Grundy does his animation where he struts forward best way with Nightwing is to dash back from him and then combo him right after. I've beaten Grundy's before the only other character that can stop those is using Deathstrokes Quick gun or Rifle which stops them dead.
My favorite character is Aquaman....but I suck with him...oddly enough, I find myself doing much better with Hawkgirl, but I never see any Hawkgirls online. Max or anyone else have thoughts on her? (Also...I played with Grundy once...could not figure out how to use his damn character trait...)
I faced a Grundy like that today too and I got just as salty. When I got sane again, I actually thought about it and for Shazam, you just simply dash away after a string, the command grab will whiff then. I'm not sure if this will work for Grundy as well, but it just could. Gonna try that next time I'll fight a Grundy player.
Max when you grab with Nightwing he switches from pole stance to escrima stance. And when you super its the other way around escrima stance to pole stance.
Hey Max, have you ever considered live streaming when you play fighting games online, so in cases like this people could post while you're playing to help you and it would be more fun to watch it live. Just a thought, great vids Max :)
max i think the solomon grundy blockstring into command grab is the same as my own characters' blockstring into command grab. I play shazam and with him you can do: 22dbf1 it will grab both from hit and block, however it can be backdashed and is very punishable when backdashed
He can cancel certain strings of his to where he can do his 2461 from strings like 22 and the other one where he does a shazam in mid string. I don't use him, but I was testing him out with JuiceBox Abel.
When Bane is at lvl 3 venom, wait it out and stay away. When it runs out he hits weaker and takes more damage for 8-9 seconds after. His weakened state is like 2-3 seconds per level of venom used.
Max, I love your videos and they really helped me becoming a good player, but man you got to make more with the interactables. Some moves like Shazams EX Torpedo are only good if you can follow it up with an interactable and a few things work this way, like Dick can EX Groundpound into for example the motorcycle, it does more then the second Groundpound and destroys it for the opponent.
with grundy just keep a bit of distance or keep pressure cause his moves come out a small bit slower than yours, but that small bit can stop him from attacking
Grundy's walking Command grab has 4 hits of Armor! So when you see it just jump over him and don't get close. His trait grab is chainable off block strings so you have to either push block or get bopped. His grasping hands attack is a low. Don't jump in on Grundy or he'll hit you with his crouching Medium and get an easy 30+%. Besides that Grundy is an easy character to overcome. If you want more Grundy experience I have a decent one so start up these KotH Lobbies so I can so all the D00Ds :P
I don't know about Bane, but fighting Grundy is all about baiting his trait and playing keepaway. Pushblock works sometimes, but your best bet is to make the grundy player chase you and chip damage him to death. He has a lot of bad matchups against keepaway characters for this reason.
Max, Bane's weakness is his own trait. When Bane loses his Venom buff he is REALLY weak. He takes more damage and barely puts out 1% of damage when he is in debuff "mode". Not to be that guy but if you guys would thumbs this up so Max can see it that would be awesome! (I could care less if I get top comment)
i feel like staff stance should be the default stance...cuz unless you've already cornered a guy, the batons dont seem to do any work. It might be you're just better with staff though.
Man I wish that I had a HaugePauge. All I have is AverMedia and they aren't nearly as good as they let on. They came out later and specialize in games but record in a format that isn't recognized by most editing software. Meaning you have to convert it first. Which only lowers the quality :(
Hey Max! Awesome stuff!! I main Nightwing, and what I've found that works is: Whenever you get in close with the batons, you can play a footsie type of game and continual do low taps and then go immediately into his overhead (qcb A) It's been working for me and I've found it's relatively safe against most characters. You can do this with the staff too if you continually tap low and go into his overhead (y). That's just how I play, but I still have much to learn with Mr. Dick Grayson.
Max, Nightwing's grab and super both take him out of staff stance and switch to his escrima.
For Grundy, the grab where he walks forward has 3 hits of armor, you can't poke him out of it. Jump out of it when you see it coming. And yeah, Grundy has pretty good frame traps. His trait grab "Solomon Grundy, born on a Monday" has about 13f startup, so he can just cancel into it while you're in blockstun. The hands are a low projectile. For his super, just dash under him if he jumps, or jump over him if he walks towards you. He can't dash during his super, so to cover distance he has to jump.
Learned something today. Grundy's walking forward grab can be blocked by another grab. It simply nulls them. Not sure if it needs for be a command grab or if it's just the normal grab command that every character gets.
As a Solomon Grundy player. The best advice I can give is to play as safe as possible. Use intractables to escape incoming grabs. Grundy only has armor on his charge so either jump or dash back like hell. Also using meter to pushback helps as well. Zoning can be a counter but you always have to be careful for his swamp hands. Otherwise you are left wide open.
oh yeah, and the thing with Nightwing's grab, when the animation is done, you will switch back to baton stance or whatever you call them
Not too sure if someone has said this Max, but Black Adams trait does not cause block stun nor hot stun, so you can tech that grab. Even in combos he doesn't gain any extra advantage when using the trait, only extra damage.
I played some nightwings with Grundy, and I hate dealing with the stick. Those pokes beat out everything I do except for the running grab, which seems to whiff if you do the overhead before it hits.
Max Grundy's character trait is an unblockable mid hitting throw chain that can provide stat buffs and when he uses a meter burn the grab gets a hit of armor.
It probably does, Grundy's armor during super is like Doomsday's. He gets a huge defense buff and can't get knocked down or launched but he can be interrupted pretty easily. The only thing you could do in that scenario would be to jump at him, but the low poke would probably still move him out of range unless you time the air-to-ground grab perfectly.
That grab is Grundy's character power, so that may be why it can be combo'd into and neglects the block stun. A bunch of his special moves can get armor at the expense of meter if not mistaken as well. This is just what I can remember from a couple of practice sessions with him. Try him out to find his weaknesses! Take a walk in his zombie shoes.
I like using Nightwing's down, back, heavy with the pole arm against the Grundy and Bane because it hits so many times it breaks through the armor they get with all those grabs
Man it's so great to see you figure stuff out, you went from noob to pro in 2 youtube vids :P Keep going! Would love to see a week of some unpopular character like Hawkgirl :D
grundy's only keep away tactic is a low attack and flash is really good with them because their armor can be pierced with his multiple jump kicks
Max in addition when Bane uses his character power it adds armor to all of his specials but when it wears off and needs to recharge he takes more damage from your attacks.
I've also seen that Grundy has a REALLY tough time with Flash in a couple of videos. Flash's rushdown just has so many hits so fast that his armor does nothing to stop it, so Flash might be a good counter to armor-based guys like Grundy and Bane.
Nice stuff Max. Love main-ing Catwomen but my friend plays ONLY Grundy. Best advice is pick your spots. Any wiff from grundy on a grab and you can get off your favorite combo. Stay mid-range then go in when you see your opening, slow startup on Grundy's moves is also something to take advantage of. Once the grab chains though all you can do is watch Grundy bounce you like a basketball.
Love the vids max, also thanks for getting me hype about this game! Originally I was going to pass on it.
also you can dash cancel nightwings ground spark thing to make it even safer basically or to maintain positioning etc.
Max Injustice is the hypest game on your channel, looking forward to your next vid dude!
Hehehe, I came here just after watching Level 100 Aggron's "Breaking the Bat" series (he seems to be the only one posting Bane matches), so I was thinking of him when you were talking about the bull-rush. And behold, he's the guy you faced!
With Nightwing Max you can actually use his ground projectile to go under the grab with the string after his attacks reverse with it, and also in pole stance his attack where he like spins his pole all flamboyantly with like QCF Heavy goes through all the armor and if it doesn't cant be grabbed through because he's in crouch.
When it comes to the heavier characters, you want to play a good keepaway and setup game. With Grundy, just use the Ground Sparks (Escrima) and air WingDings (Or whatever they're called) so that you can stun them and just keep them away. Bane is easier to deal with in Staff stance. Back + Light is a good way to knock him back, and you have to predict random charges. Punish the venom, the higher the level, the more armour. Just wait for it to run out and beat him silly.
Hope this helped!
against bane hangout at full screen, when he charges neutral jump and land behind him and punish. the batarangs can stop the charge unless hes at lvl 3 venom, as can the ex ground lightning.
treat grundy like gief, and the poll stance is your best friend. flying grayson everytime they jump. his command grab actually is a walkup grab like giefs in sf, so just jump over and punish.
The Black Adam character trait orbs dont cause block stun max, they're all 4% unblockables
Max,
Grundy's gameplan is to get in on you with his armoured command grab headbutt then combo from or into his EX swamp hands, wallbounce you into a transition or juggle you into his Trait "The Pain Chain" which leads into easy BIG damage and gives him one of 3 buffs: attack damage is the piledriver, increased defence vs chip damage when he drowns you in swamp water and increased defence vs all attacks with the one where he swings you like a ragdoll by the leg.
Grundy's weak to air stuff. Do it
I've played good grundy's as nightwing. Lots of keep away and cross-ups that keep you off the ground to help prevent his invincible walk bs. Escrima stance is necessary over staff because u need that mobility to stay in the air and to zone.
Max, I got a question given that you use a stick. My stick is pretty shitty (Hori), so my layout (PS3) is
L1-[]-/\-R1
L2-X-O-R2
Since I'm used to UMvC3, I made my buttons (CT=char. trait; MB=meter; I=interactive)
L-M-H-Grab
CT-MB-I-Stance
I know most sticks have
[]-/\-R1-L1
X-O-R2-L2
So the default for Capcom fighters isn't so bad. Either way, it's weird for MK style fighters; the default for injustice for these sticks would be
L-M-I-Throw
H-CT-MB-Stance
TL;DR what's your button layout like?
The fact the Grundy says the rhyme with every throw is awesome.
For grab characters zone them out and use the two hit low move into the overhead flip for mix up and ex version for free combos and dont just jump all the time.
I've found that meter burn back/forward heavy is great against Grundy and co. It beats their throws and since their normals are so slow they won't be able to break the armour most of the time. Otherwise you just have to lame them out. Hope that helps. :)
Dickstroke reminds me of Zones old Raven/Slade flash animation. You know the one everyone pretends they didn't see or know about?
what i notice with bane is that you have to be patient with him, he's like hulk, if you block on his dashes and stuff you can beat him pretty easily and grundy is a very buffed up version of zangief
The reason your combos aren't connecting after a jump-in is because you have to kinda treat the jump-in as part of the string, from what I've played it's a little difficult to just connect a combo after your jump-in connects. Have to plan the follow-up in advance.
Max, I have a few questions for you:
first off, what should i start to learn in terms of Green Lanturn? You already covered Batman, now i just need some beginners tips to starting Green Lanturns might.
second, do you (or anyone here) know what Aquamans trait does? my friend wants to main him and he is clueless as to what it does.
When you are against Grundy as Nightwang just stay in pole and keep with the keep away until they get in, then switch to the other and use the multihiting nun-chuck looking thing, it breaks the armor pretty good...
Down, back, 3 in pole stance crushes his advancing headbutt move. It's pretty nice.
Max when you fight against Bane take advantage of the cooldown on the venom cause it causes them to move slower, and their defense is piss poor. So those are your chances on dishing out some heavy damage. Plus you already know and stated about venom giving them armor, as well increasing their speed and damage. Loving the videos man keep up the good work!
For fights against big characters cross-ups then a sweep as they're going for a command grab seem to be one of the only things that works
no you can't meter burn his grabs until it connects with the opponent, his medium grab is blockable and whiffs on crouching opponents. His heavy grab has Armor without meter burn but cannot grab airborne opponents. His trait can be used on wake-up, but it has little to no invincibility.
When you do nightwing's throw it takes you out of his staff and into his two stick stance. If you do his special it will put you in his staff stance automatically
Took me forever to finally start kicking ass with him. He doesn't have a lot of ways keep his juggles going, but he's fast.
Max you can do back heavy or forward heavy when Grundy's doing that invincibility grab, go in pratice to learn the timing
As a guy who plays Solomon Grundy, the best way to fight him is to run away like a wimp and spam projectiles. This makes characters like Green Lantern the bane of Grundy.
When Dick grabs he goes back to the escrima sticks. I think when he uses his super, he goes into his staff stance (i think). Similar to Wonder Woman going back to her lasso after a super. Things to keep in mind.
Congratulations sir. You have received both top comments!
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yo max, grundy, while he can be scary as balls up close, does have weaknesses even in close quarters. his walking corpse move(the armoured charge with command grab) can be easily exploited by nightwang. because he wont actually grab till the end of the move is complete, itll just push nightwang till he grabs. so perform your staff spin with the pole, and itll break the charge in about half a second before he can even touch you. as for the under your feet grab, grundy will ALWAYS do it at range
so try to block low when your on the ground at range. trying to stop him when he is metering it(at range) wont work cuz it gives him 1 hit of armor for that move. and when hes close, watch out for the trait. when he meters it, it becomes VERY fast and armored for 1 hit as well(ull see it on wakeup a lot if you are close to them or jumping by them when they arent charging). other than that, watch out for his crazy anti air that you can combo off of easy, and use them high-lows and crossups(pole)
From what I heard on juicebox's stream, you can use back 3(heavy) with meter burn to counter Bane's rush attack. Don't know about Grundy though.
Yo. After your "target combos" (I.e. light, light, heavy) cancel into ground spark. The ground spark at the end makes just about all of them safe. ~~~~☆ *The more you know*
do you plan on making this game apart of the online warrior series? that would be pretty cool man.
Also, using wing dings in the air while you're close to him is very unsafe. Use them when there is a good distance between you.
I've found that Grundy's suffer a mid distance fight...keeping him away and jumping over his rushing command grab. He's not safe and you can go into pretty damaging combos. The second you get close, his knife specials and grabs come out too fast for most of the cast, and he wrecks basically everyone.
Thats the best advice I can give you, but fighting against him is necessary to read his movements. Remember, his CG distance is quite similar to a Bison crouching Heavy distance.
in my experience, trying to mash the wager really doesn't work. i try to take just a bit and purposefully activate it, if that makes sense. i'm having trouble doing it that way and not just mashing, but when i do manage to do it that way it seems to work consistently.
His character trait is a command grab of some sort and you probably need to put some kind of button input during the grab to extend it i think
Black Adam's trait causes no block stun or hit stun. That's why he was able to grab you. Basically unblockable
Grundy isn't the only one who can do a block string into a command grab. Shazam can do it to, he can do it to where you can't even backdash out of it to.
Also don't forget flip kick wake up. And ex flip kick into back A into big combo.
black adam trait causes no block stun or hit stun. its just there for a little extra damage. thats why he called it and was able to grab you
You can burn meter to make all of Grundy's command grabs have armor though :)
Grundy is a graber type chracter, Like Zangief from SF4 or any other grab type, his grabs is hard to block. The est thing to so is time your counter. Before he dash forward and grab, you jumped back and try to punish him. Or push block, that what i'l do
I play Nightwing too and haven 't come up with an answer for Grundy.
Yo Max! When I play Nightwing vs Grundy or Bane I use the staff pretty much the whole time and I tend to keep away unless I have full control of the fight.
you just have to jump over banes charge max.as for Grundy his back forward hard command grab where he runs at you has 3 hits if armor so you have to either grab him out if it or just neutral jump medium kick. Also if Grundy is crouched he's most likely gonna d2 you and go into a full chain grab. Also his ex hands will root you in place and he can actually dash from full screen and combo you before you can even break out. Hope that helps.
id also do is pole arm 2 hit combo... the trait on bane is when to be scared, faster, more armor and more damage, when he uses 1 2 or 3 steroid doses accordinly but when his trait ends she's going to be slow and weak slower and weaker or slowest and weakest, THATS your window. GRUNDY also benifits off his trait. Trait before meter in this game bro
Grundy is hard to deal with and i would also like to hear what a good way to deal with him.
Max, if a bane rushes you, do a meter burn wall bounce. It's a free combo.
Max when Grundy does his animation where he struts forward best way with Nightwing is to dash back from him and then combo him right after. I've beaten Grundy's before the only other character that can stop those is using Deathstrokes Quick gun or Rifle which stops them dead.
My favorite character is Aquaman....but I suck with him...oddly enough, I find myself doing much better with Hawkgirl, but I never see any Hawkgirls online. Max or anyone else have thoughts on her? (Also...I played with Grundy once...could not figure out how to use his damn character trait...)
I faced a Grundy like that today too and I got just as salty. When I got sane again, I actually thought about it and for Shazam, you just simply dash away after a string, the command grab will whiff then. I'm not sure if this will work for Grundy as well, but it just could. Gonna try that next time I'll fight a Grundy player.
@Miles923 why you no use backwards hadoken hard, its great after the ground shock and its good for mix ups
Max when you grab with Nightwing he switches from pole stance to escrima stance. And when you super its the other way around escrima stance to pole stance.
Hey Max, have you ever considered live streaming when you play fighting games online, so in cases like this people could post while you're playing to help you and it would be more fun to watch it live. Just a thought, great vids Max :)
While in staff stance if you do a throw you reset back to Grayson's escrima sticks.
max i think the solomon grundy blockstring into command grab is the same as my own characters' blockstring into command grab. I play shazam and with him you can do: 22dbf1 it will grab both from hit and block, however it can be backdashed and is very punishable when backdashed
When Deathstroke got on NightWing's bike , Max should've been like "oh no , my bike, SOMEONE STOLE MY BIKE."
He can cancel certain strings of his to where he can do his 2461 from strings like 22 and the other one where he does a shazam in mid string. I don't use him, but I was testing him out with JuiceBox Abel.
When Bane is at lvl 3 venom, wait it out and stay away. When it runs out he hits weaker and takes more damage for 8-9 seconds after. His weakened state is like 2-3 seconds per level of venom used.
You can hit Grundy with the staff spin and it's enough hits to knock Grundy out of the walking grab
Max, I love your videos and they really helped me becoming a good player, but man you got to make more with the interactables.
Some moves like Shazams EX Torpedo are only good if you can follow it up with an interactable and a few things work this way, like Dick can EX Groundpound into for example the motorcycle, it does more then the second Groundpound and destroys it for the opponent.
One of the simplest combos is to (On Ps3) Back x, fwd jump, x, xx. 28% damage and isn't hard to land.
Also throws put u back in stick stance and supers put u in staff stance.
8:47 Yo Max nice! You just did my bread and butter combo your are a better Nightwing than I. (I bow to you with respect.)
Doesn't Nightwing have some kind of leaping "Axe kick" that's considered an overhead?
with grundy just keep a bit of distance or keep pressure cause his moves come out a small bit slower than yours, but that small bit can stop him from attacking
if bane does that charge thing, if you jump and use your baterangs you get enough airtime that he runs under you
Grundy's walking Command grab has 4 hits of Armor! So when you see it just jump over him and don't get close. His trait grab is chainable off block strings so you have to either push block or get bopped. His grasping hands attack is a low. Don't jump in on Grundy or he'll hit you with his crouching Medium and get an easy 30+%. Besides that Grundy is an easy character to overcome. If you want more Grundy experience I have a decent one so start up these KotH Lobbies so I can so all the D00Ds :P
I don't know about Bane, but fighting Grundy is all about baiting his trait and playing keepaway. Pushblock works sometimes, but your best bet is to make the grundy player chase you and chip damage him to death. He has a lot of bad matchups against keepaway characters for this reason.
You should make a vid with Dr. Doom and Black Adam, getting along, talking about Foot Dives
Max, Bane's weakness is his own trait. When Bane loses his Venom buff he is REALLY weak. He takes more damage and barely puts out 1% of damage when he is in debuff "mode". Not to be that guy but if you guys would thumbs this up so Max can see it that would be awesome! (I could care less if I get top comment)
Max, nightwing's throw puts you in escrima stance even if you are in pole stance before the throw
i feel like staff stance should be the default stance...cuz unless you've already cornered a guy, the batons dont seem to do any work. It might be you're just better with staff though.
I don't know if this is anything like the burst mechanic in GG/blazeblue. but you can't burst grabs. Might be the same in this game.
Bro! Does Grundy sing his song as he attacks?!!?? Fan-SERVICE!!
That walk up grab has 3 hits of armor if u can time it do ir escrima fury meter burn shud help out with that
So* block low on wakeup and play mostly with the pole. Same goes for grundy.
ive picked up nightwing because of you. Good videos, Its crazy seeing you get better everymatch. Good Sh*t
That Deathstroke had maximum disrespect!
This is the first video where game is showing serious probs with connection issues but very informative video max.