X-Men: Children of the Atom/Silver Samurai/Introduction: Difference between revisions

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Introduction/Summary

If you're a fan of low-tier and uphill battles, Silver Samurai is your man. While he's certainly handicapped, his battles are not unwinnable.

Silver Samurai had more options in older versions (2.x's, Japan/Asia versions) simply from his Shuriken hitting slower, allowing for better/easier combos.

Ground Chain: Weak Start, Up One*
Normal Jump Chain: Weak Start Cross (must be Punch to Kick OR Kick to Punch)
Super Jump Chain: Weak Start, Up One
Tech hit type: Escape/Safe Fall
Weight Class: Heavy
Height: Tall

Strengths

Weaknesses

All Normal attacks chip (save air LK)
RaiMeiKen (lightning super) does good damage and chip, can be comboed into
Easy trap vs inexperienced players
Decent pokes, though their range is deceptivly bad and some may miss if too close vs some characters
Has good stamina
If you're hit out of Shadow Clones startup, you still keep the powerup, unlike element swords
Evasion X-special (grounded in particular)
Relatively low execution requirements.

Counter throw depends on meter, and can only be performed in the first tech window. Colossus has a hard time generating meter without taking risks.
Throw game is drastically weakened against other heavy characters.
Long start up on his forward dash (about 6 frames) means you have to commit to your movement, can not wavedash forwards but can wavedash backwards.
Has trouble hitting the air above his head which makes chasing flying/double jumping characters a pain.
Has hard matchups against the big 3 (Wolverine, Omega Red, Sentinel).

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 |pros=
-*All normals chip on block.
+* All Normal attacks chip (save air LK)
-*Strong long rage buttons, j.towards HP and cr.HK notably.
+* RaiMeiKen (lightning super) does good damage and chip, can be comboed into
-*Shoulder tackle can neutralize projectiles up to 3 hits, can be stopped after hitting for combos/safe block strings and can stop a lot of Storm's normals.
+* Easy trap vs inexperienced players
-*Very large throw range and the ability to reposition the opponent where he likes depending on the throw used. Can also pick opponents up off of the ground (a bit gimmicky but effective on opponents who can't roll away from it like Cyclops.)
+* Decent pokes, though their range is deceptivly bad and some may miss if too close vs some characters
-*Effective super for instant guard cancelling an over aggressive opponent, invincible on startup and can be done in the air.
+* Has good stamina
-*Counter throw can force the opponents into making poor decisions and narrow their options to open you up.
+* If you're hit out of Shadow Clones startup, you still keep the powerup, unlike element swords
+* Evasion X-special (grounded in particular)
+* Relatively low execution requirements.
 |cons=
 *Counter throw depends on meter, and can only be performed in the first tech window. Colossus has a hard time generating meter without taking risks.