Stryker, subzero, and scorpion are all great kameos for rain, but lately I've really been enjoying cyrax. There are some really dirty setups with helichopper that leave the opponent between two portals with one combo.
Can someone explain what happened at 3:08 when Sonic went for the overhead and canceled it into his grab I know Rain can cancel his projectile and his super kick but what happened here can he cancel his overhead???
And it's only the tip of the iceberg of rain, the amount of labbing this character needs is still unachieved. The possibilities for combos setup, kameo steups and more are borderline insane.
@@Feedbackking13 More about his portals setup, and how with sonya you can extend his combos to a 412 dmg combot with a. double air juggle. He is by far the coolest zoner netherrealm has made in my opinion.
@@randomdude9828 But most it is sub-par making him low tier, using your kameo to just get 412 is kinda lackluster tbh. His damage isn't something like smoke.
Goro gives him 423 mid screen. Plus frames to use slower startup highs, overhead grab to mix up with low strings, unblockable which can be COMBO into or setup for a whirlpool overhead 50/50 on wake up. And can combo off his air projectiles full screen. People sleep on RAIN/GORO.
Yeah I think Rain/Scorpion are such amazing synergy nearly all of his moves pair well with Scorpion fireballs, I have a super simple 42% bnb for 1 bar of meter/kameo and rain always has meter. This video now makes me want to go in the lab and see if his throws/ex portal moves work with scorpion as well now.
I saw a rain player last week on Tampa never sleeps and that shit was impressive how he was controlling the matches. Bluelinkys was the guy. Second match up on TNS MK1 Tourney #3.
Starting to think that people should reevaluate how fighting games should be played cuz every game Sonic plays, he takes the same concept from one character and applies it to another character or game. If you can't beat Sonic, instead of immediately blaming the character, change the way you think and modify your approach. Just a theory
This is already a known theory. It’s well established at this point that anyone that even remotely tries to be decent at MK or other fighting games that it comes down to how you’re playing the character and that you can make any of them work with some exceptions like if a character is just absolutely terrible. But this game you can make any character work, it just comes down to the player. The “best” characters/kameos only come into play when it’s a very high level player going against another high level player due to frame data advantages. With that being said, sonic fox is not playing rain that well. Or at least as well as I’ve seen others play rain.
@@christaylor3604I’ve seen some god tier rains also. But like you said, tiers typically only matter at higher level play. Tbh I don’t believe there’s a single character who is absolutely unplayable or bad. There’s a few who could have safer strings and a little more damage
29:02 You can see sonic whiffing a roundhouse by the randomness of the fallout of cyrax helicopter move... It's so random outside of corner .. if you don't go air borne to continue the combo its not worth using for ground kombo extension.. I dropped cyrax as a pair for rain due to those drops.. I think the Devs tried to balance that utility of that move with the randomness of the fallout.. But Baraka and Raiden are still able to get decent damage off it when they get air borne..
Someone needs to turn rain into a top teir player he's the best looking and the best animated player in this game much less taking one of his moves away after launch!!!?
@@awakenchildofgod5556yeh why would they do that ? Ig he has the portals but and instant teleport seems way more badass im but Ig the portals can be used for a combo extender but is hard to actually set up.
People sleep on rain, everytime I fight this mf I CANT STAND him, for being a "zoner" this dude got some good ass mix ups, set ups, combo starters and routes, its sometimes unpredictable
I can't be the only one who misses the mk11 Kung Lao right? Just the strings he have with the Hat were cool AF, i like the MK1 but he is not using it as much in his combos or pressure and he is not using the spin either as a Kung Lao main i feel kind of dissapointed tbh
This guy makes the whole roster look Top tier
He literally just lost the set and rain looks no where near top tier lol. Stop meat riding 😂
@@Shzzaamimagine hating
@@plugmanyoda9718imagine riding
this is shit rain gameplay because it's his first time, get off your knees
He lost to a kung lao that doesn't block anything. Hardly making rain looking top tier
I really enjoy these commentary videos, makes the matches even more interesting to watch
Rain and Sub Zero is the move .. you can freeze an opponent right into a water trap and keep the combo going
You can do the same with the whirlpool and cyrax
Facts
I was looking for rain content last night and now we got this, cheers
rain has the best animations
Stryker, subzero, and scorpion are all great kameos for rain, but lately I've really been enjoying cyrax. There are some really dirty setups with helichopper that leave the opponent between two portals with one combo.
Sub zero rain into the freeze - projectile crumble - water trap seems like his most powerful kameo/setplay
It actually is trash
@@xCUSTOMGAMERSxnu uh
If you delay wake up you just need to block the overhead, haven’t seen any rain players punish the delayed wakeup
@@Blubbernugget12345I have. Just delay the setup if you notice them delaying wake up often. It’s still an effective mid game either way
@@Blubbernugget12345my buddy did this and I just delayed the setup it does the same thing.
Rain is probably my second most played character and it's nice to see SonicFox play him! Good stuff
Can someone explain what happened at 3:08 when Sonic went for the overhead and canceled it into his grab I know Rain can cancel his projectile and his super kick but what happened here can he cancel his overhead???
im tryna figure the same thing out
And it's only the tip of the iceberg of rain, the amount of labbing this character needs is still unachieved. The possibilities for combos setup, kameo steups and more are borderline insane.
I wouldn't say unmatched, I think Havik and Reiko probably have just as many amazing things to find in the lab.
@@Feedbackking13 More about his portals setup, and how with sonya you can extend his combos to a 412 dmg combot with a. double air juggle. He is by far the coolest zoner netherrealm has made in my opinion.
@@randomdude9828 But most it is sub-par making him low tier, using your kameo to just get 412 is kinda lackluster tbh. His damage isn't something like smoke.
Goro gives him 423 mid screen. Plus frames to use slower startup highs, overhead grab to mix up with low strings, unblockable which can be COMBO into or setup for a whirlpool overhead 50/50 on wake up. And can combo off his air projectiles full screen. People sleep on RAIN/GORO.
Yeah I think Rain/Scorpion are such amazing synergy nearly all of his moves pair well with Scorpion fireballs, I have a super simple 42% bnb for 1 bar of meter/kameo and rain always has meter. This video now makes me want to go in the lab and see if his throws/ex portal moves work with scorpion as well now.
cancelling some strings into the portal leaves at less minus, for example s114 into portal is -2 on block, setting up portals with him is so fun,
"Rain is sick"
is probably the most word my mom says to me
Sonic is the best Mk player , His versatility is amazing
Idk kinja killa won evo
I dont think sonic competed.... he was in other games@@feelingnether158
@@feelingnether158sonic usally beats ninja even wen they spar
@@dzciple4931 I mean they did a 1v1 not to long ago it was even. But since ninja Killa won evo i still think he is the best player in my opinion.
@@dzciple4931who won Evo tho?
At this point it's anything sonic fox touches turns to gold
Anything?
@Valkyrae123 i mean anyone sonic fox uses
Sonic fox single handedly causes a global gold crisis causing the economy of countries to collapse due to his midas touch ability
Huh... I literally didn't see anything all that insane in this set of matches
@@DarthRane113did u see it today lol? Ran through ninja
Thank you i've been playing rain all wrong I didn't even know you can shoot projects through portals
The most pleasing match i´ve seen so far in MK 1
Same, Kung lao was winning 7:4
Idk i personally think him with sub zero kameo just makes him more consistent with his damage output
*Rain will fall upon you like daggers from the sky*
💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧
cyrax rain is sick you can combo into low trap and even use it with pressure now to be +2
How??
Damn, Sonic cooking with Rain too?! Is there any one Sonic can't make look OD?
can we all admit that the kung lao player was pretty good? the guy knows his buttons well and even won some matches. keep it up sonic!
Cos that Kung Lao player is 1 of the best Mortal Kombat players there’s been😂😂
Xombat brings the fire
Guess you dont know who xombat is
"The kung lao player" Smh
i just realized it was xombat! wow@@Manwithetheplan
I saw a rain player last week on Tampa never sleeps and that shit was impressive how he was controlling the matches. Bluelinkys was the guy. Second match up on TNS MK1 Tourney #3.
Thank you!
I'm gonna check It out because I want to get better with Prince Rain 💯💪🏻
👑💜👑💜 👑💜👑💜
Hey that’s me, appreciate it
@@bluelink1045 Please post some content on youtube - Rain players are dry on content (pun intended)
@@fernygamer6985ur on ps5 pc ? Im in training woth rain to
Every rain video: The double portal beam is useless!
Sonicfox: YO this shit kinda broken
11:09 MK shuffling be having me dead 😂😂😂 i be on it too tho
"Zone me. Zoner." Xombat's famous last words.
Timestamp?
SonicFox would be the perfect Shang Tsung
Rain, Scorpion, Raiden, Barraka, Johnny TOP 5
As a rain main seeing this got me excited. You should play with sub zero kameo too dirty setups
Jax is amazing with Rain
They turned rain from a ninja into a magician lol
Pretty dope, prince, ninja magician.
Enhanced projectile should make a portal, I mean any of them, if they made rain a more setup heavy character he'd be fun and interesting.
I mean he's already fun asf
Rain main🤴🏻⛈️
They should make his enhanced projectile a mid, and his strings like 112/114 should be faster since we have a safe overhead that combos
@@OctopusH2O How does the overhead justify those other strings being faster? What is faster in this context, startup, recovery, advantage even?
Prince Rain is so badass!!!!
👑💜👑💜
If y’all ever run into a player named JnTonioo he has the best rain rn swear
Any other rain mains here?
Can't wait to see you make waves in MK1, Sonic! Rain is hype af too
YEA I been waiting for this!
The lvl of excitement in marc's
voice as he's dropping lings is phenomenal
It feels like Rain "SHOULD" have a teleport of some sort.
and not the portals....
Rain's full screen teleport was shown in his reveal trailer!
👑💜👑💜
@SonicFox : Which character do you advice for a beginner/mid player :
Rain, Smoke, Scorpion, Shang Tsung ?
scorpion is by far the easiest character on that list
@@DIVERSION_UKfgcYou speaketh factuals
I’d actually say baraka
SonicFox makes every character S Tier
idk why I find Rain's new weapon so cool lol
PSA: Xombat said this was his first time playing against rain so he didnt know what to punish/lookout for
He’s been playing 23.5 hours a day since release no one believes that crap lol
Fireball cancel allows you to keep grounded combos going with assist I had no idea
Been waiting for this 🦊 overhead cancel into throw 😂
HOW IS THIS DONE WTF
How do you use the overhead input
Hes hands down the best fighting game player ever. He beats people who use their best fighters with random heros, it's just sad
@sonicfox how do you combo a sting into cyrax into another string?!?! How does that link? It doesn’t work for me
Why sonic sound like a rooster at 21:04 😂
❤love it…can you do every character like this overtime!! Love the mix up
Starting to think that people should reevaluate how fighting games should be played cuz every game Sonic plays, he takes the same concept from one character and applies it to another character or game. If you can't beat Sonic, instead of immediately blaming the character, change the way you think and modify your approach. Just a theory
This is already a known theory. It’s well established at this point that anyone that even remotely tries to be decent at MK or other fighting games that it comes down to how you’re playing the character and that you can make any of them work with some exceptions like if a character is just absolutely terrible. But this game you can make any character work, it just comes down to the player. The “best” characters/kameos only come into play when it’s a very high level player going against another high level player due to frame data advantages.
With that being said, sonic fox is not playing rain that well. Or at least as well as I’ve seen others play rain.
@@christaylor3604I’ve seen some god tier rains also. But like you said, tiers typically only matter at higher level play. Tbh I don’t believe there’s a single character who is absolutely unplayable or bad. There’s a few who could have safer strings and a little more damage
I want to see Sonicfox use shujinko against Kensi. Because shujinko can change Kensi's ancient soul.
I’m having trouble doing that lil cancel mid combo with rain after Cryax call.. any tips?
How does he cancel his forward 3 at 3:08?
29:02 You can see sonic whiffing a roundhouse by the randomness of the fallout of cyrax helicopter move... It's so random outside of corner .. if you don't go air borne to continue the combo its not worth using for ground kombo extension.. I dropped cyrax as a pair for rain due to those drops.. I think the Devs tried to balance that utility of that move with the randomness of the fallout.. But Baraka and Raiden are still able to get decent damage off it when they get air borne..
Yeah I think my friend might be the best rain ive seen so far. Sonic is great though
Someone needs to turn rain into a top teir player he's the best looking and the best animated player in this game much less taking one of his moves away after launch!!!?
What move did they take away?
Which move
His full screen teleport from the first trailer of him and smoke
@@awakenchildofgod5556really I gotta check this out
@@awakenchildofgod5556yeh why would they do that ? Ig he has the portals but and instant teleport seems way more badass im but Ig the portals can be used for a combo extender but is hard to actually set up.
What are the floating pancake-like 🥞 structures rain 🌧️ put out?!
Never thought I’d see you play rain
That does it. ONe of my upcoming Pathfinder characters has to be a water kineticist now.
finally a rain video🔥
I never thought to use cyrax kameo with rain I might need to lab this
First time I Actually see Goro using the stomp attack.
Can rains armored db3 be a combo starter with subzero kameo
Clapping Tweedy in his video with Rain was very satisfying
Guys which mk fighters and guest characters are likely to be in kombat pack 2 as dlc?
Wait..can you zone through rains portals??
Is this the same Kombat that gave Sonic Fox the beats???
Was rain always a waterbender?
How do you input the overhead cancel
People sleep on rain, everytime I fight this mf I CANT STAND him, for being a "zoner" this dude got some good ass mix ups, set ups, combo starters and routes, its sometimes unpredictable
He’s not even a zoner at this point.
Rain overhead slow as hell tho
@@luigiwiiUU That’s when that grab cancel and kameo comes in hand
His water bubble mixed with the antizone SZ kameo is absurd. Not to mention the whirlpool setups he gets with him too.
@@d30n6how do you do the grab cancel?
Does kung Lao dont have his spin?
Let's explore Rain? How About Let's Explore SonicFox? Who want to explore with me ?
Ngl 3 bar breaker makes a lot of sense now, otherwise armoured launchers would be more abused in this game
Idk why rain can cancel his f3 on grab that is a bug or what
Sonic is a multi tournament spanning champion, but still has a ps2 mic 😂. Sick gameplay though
Ayoooo sound like he be chatting through the ps5 controller lol
I do like that they kept that rapid punch combo, wouldn't really be Kung Lao without it, y'know?
They gotta make him like mkt rain
Thank u sonic for showing rain off . Now I wanna try him out.
My main! I'm part of the 1%
1% percenters unite 🤟🏾
And he wasn’t even using his water shield 😭
Does sonicfox lab all these characters for like an hour and go playing like this?
Man is putting in the work
Rain main 🤴🏻⛈️
I hate rains, water pillar move so much. Why did they make it 2 pillars instead of 3? It feels like it's an incomplete move
I feel like Goro is not at all the move with Kung Lao
RAIN RAIN RAIN !!!
Is that really a cancel when he fakes that overhead into a grab ?
Thanks for this video big time @sonicfox
Sonicfox joga muito!
YEssir bringing rain into the spotlight
YES FIND THE UNBLOCKABLE SETUPPP
Rain is sick if you know the combos
Rain is dangerous with scorpion kameo
since rain a wizard now his new nickname is harry waters and wavy snipes!!! 🌧️🌧️⛈️⛈️⛈️🌊🌊🌊🌊⛈️
The means you can win any match if you know how to use the character.
No tf I assure you sonic wouldn't even make top 5 with rain at evo
Has anyone pay attention to geras health bar compare to other characters in the game why his health so low 😢
I can't be the only one who misses the mk11 Kung Lao right? Just the strings he have with the Hat were cool AF, i like the MK1 but he is not using it as much in his combos or pressure and he is not using the spin either as a Kung Lao main i feel kind of dissapointed tbh
Finally sonic using my boy!
Tbh Kang lao needs more special moves
I KNEW IT
Cyrax is literally OP with every character