Jacqui Briggs

So I’ve been playing for a while now, and one of the least used characters I’ve come across is Jacqui Briggs.

The one time I did come up against her, she kicked my ass. She used the Full Auto variation, and I can remember the variation because she continuously fired an uzi at me. The style of play was pretty cheap, because she is (the only?) character to fire a stream of bullets. Making it impossible to jump over the projectile, like you would with most fireballs.

She also has the ability to shoot a rocket out with the uzi, and the rocket will hit a crouching player and knock him down. I’m not sure if I’m doing a good job of describing how cheap this variant is, but it feels to me like it’s the cheapest variant in the game.

I suppose it depends on the matchup. Against teleporting players like Mileena and Scorpion, the technique is much less effective. But she’s still a very skillless, spam attack style player. Because Jacqui Briggs Full Auto can do great chip damage, and because she’s so weak at close range, she really has to take full advantage of the ability to keep the opponent at range, and get maximum chip damage.

That also makes her strongest against characters like Devora and Kotal Kahn, against players who can’t teleport and who have no way of closing the gap.

So naturally, I started playing with Jacqui. Turns out, I did really well. I started winning against players who were twenty levels higher than me. I got double flawless victories. And when I was finally matched up against a player strong enough to beat me, he showed just how pissed he was at my scrub, spam attack style of play that he teabagged me unmercifully.

On Twitch.tv, there’s a guy who plays with Jacqui Briggs, and he plays much the same way. Like I said, you really have to play Jacqui that way, spamming her gun, and letting it push her opponents back to where they’re helpless. It’s so cheap, even against a Scorpion, the bullets can hit him before he zones, and keep him at range.

And while I find it incredibly easy to play and win with her, I really think she’s the kind of character that I would nerf, or remove from the game entirely. The one big question I have is why aren’t more people playing with her?

I also want to mention that while many of the classic Mortal Kombat characters are in this game, it seems pretty clear that the new, younger generation is the superior group. Cassy Cage, Kung Jin, and that annoying kid with the jump ropes are all very tough characters to beat. I like the fact that Mortal Kombat has finally turned its Dhalsim character into a viable choice, but man are his combos OP.