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

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).