MK11 - Shang Tsung Notes

Shang Tsung
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FATALS

1 - bfdd1 (mid)
2 - bfb4 (mid) ?
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V1 - Fire And Brimstone

bf1		Amp
- high fireball
 - Amp: 2nd high fireball
  - Amp2: 3rd mid fireball, sliding KND
   - hold up-forward -> safejump!?

db1		Amp
- replaces generic
- two vertical fireballs
- adjustable: (f)
 - neutral: 1st is near, 2nd is about half-screen
 - f: half-screen and 75%
  - Amp: 3rd vertical fireball just further than the first two
   - launches on hit
   - amp-able on whiff
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V2 - Soultaker

bf1	Amp
- slow startup, fast high fireball
- hold 1 to delay
- press down while holding to cancel
 - costs 1 DEF bar
- can Amp while holding
 - Amp: 120 damage mid hit traveling across full screen
 - good pushback/-7

df3	Amp
- safe mid hit
- hold 3 to delay
- press down, down to cancel (free!)
- can Amp while holding
 - Amp: kombo extend, very slow startup
 - good pushback

db2
- summons a soul well for about 10 seconds
- "collects" 25% of all damage dealt (hits and blocks)
- input db2 before it dissappears to gain 40 life+collected life
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generics

db1	Amp
- double mid fireball at an angle
- pushes away/-15 to -7 depending on range
 - Amp: 3rd fireball

bf2	Amp
- unsafe mid attack
- [soul steal] on hit
- lasts about 5 seconds
 - Amp: xtra damage
 - lasts twice as long/about 10 seconds
* probably more to learn about this

df3	Amp
- unsafe overhead
- adjustable: (b/f/u)
- zoning option, similar to Sonya drones
 - Amp: 2nd low hit

bf4
- unsafe advancing mid
- a terrible subzero slide
- probably his best reversal punish option
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strings
11		x
112
114		x
b11		x
b112
b1d2
21		x
21u2d2
214
b211
b2112
f24		x
f242
f243
3u2		x
3u2d2
b3u4
b3u434
b3d4

gaps:
11 # 2
B11 # 2
B2 # 11
F24 # 2
B3 # U4

lows
- d3/d4/b4
- b3
- f2[4]
- 3[u2][d2]
- 3u4[34]-1st
V1
- df3-Amp

overheads
- hops
- f3
- b1[d2]
- 21u2[d2]
- b3[u4]
V1
- df3

Notable normals

- f2
- f3
- f4
- b1
- b2
- b3

block advantage
- 3		H/0
- db1A	M/0
- 1		H/+1
- 4		H/+1
- f242	M/+4
- f4	H/+5
- bf1AA	M/+5
- 112	M/+6, pushes away

Frame Trap after d3(+9):
highs <= i9
- 1		i8		C
- 2		i9
- d2	i9

mids/lows <= i14
- b1	i14		A
- b3	i10		B

- d1	i8
- d3	i7
- d4	i9
- b4	i13

Post-FT Strategy:

A -

B -

C -
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Krushing Blows

d2
- Kounter a high
- Punish a high
*launch

B throw
- recently morphed back to self
*launch

f4
- Kounter or Punish a wakeup roll
*240

b1d2
- d2 hits on its own
*launch

f243
- kounter
- punish
*290

V1

bf1-Ampx2
- hits by itself
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KOMBOS

[non-launch]
1 / 2 / 3 / 4
(dmg shown is for xxx)

 xx 1 = ?/?A
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 xx 2 = ?
  -

 xx 3 = ?
  -

[launch]

d2 KB/FBu2

- midscreen
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- corner
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blah

- midscreen
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- corner
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jump kick

- midscreen
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- corner
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-(crossup)
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