Figured I'd bring this up since its a poll happening on TYM, and Eventhubs at the moment.
CDjr (very well known MK player who plays Injustice) is pushing for Scorpion to be banned at tournament.
CDjr went on to list his complaints on the character... He's not alone, Pig of the Hut and a whole list of folks (including testers) are complaining about the things that made CDjr push for a ban of this character. Currently the poll at TYM is leaning towards the Ban while Eventhubs is not. Scorpion recently won the South East Asia Majors too so he has shown he can be used effectively at a tournament level and its not just a vocal minority.
The main reason is essentially his teleport shuts down the meta of the game and makes it reactionary to one tool.
- Footsie interactibles can be ignored meaning interactibles against Scorpion are useful only in combos as he can teleport punish all others.
- block strings from Scorpion demand pushblocking as he can mix in the teleport easily to open you up
- it punishes any and all jumps and there is no jump blocking to counter the air version
- it demands constant crouchblocking and reactionary play
- it shuts down a good percentage of the entire cast's space control tools
- it makes many of the zoning tools in the game irrelevant.
Are you for the ban or not folks? I can deal with the move, I play Bane and he pretty much always plays turtle and punish but I'm leaning toward the ban because Scorpion shuts down the meta of the game so much in every matchup that he completely controls the pace of the entire game with how many things the tool eliminates from your repetoire. Smart players with Scorpion are looking to be Kabal level in my eyes and NRS even joked that to balance a game they simply didn't put Kabal in this one...now we have someone who causes as many problems as Kabal in it as DLC.
Discuss. I didn't come by my opinion on this lightly.
