So I’ve come to an impasse of sorts in Mortal Kombat X. I’m kinda bored of playing as Kotal Kahn. But all of the other characters I want to play are unavailable.
You already know that the next character I’d most like to learn is Tanya. But she’s DLC and the only way for me to play as her is to *buy* her for a second time, or else to simply play as her on the PC version. But one does not simply *play* the PC version of MKX. So scratch Tanya off the list.
Next I’d pick Shinnok. But Shinnock is locked until you beat the game. Guess who absolutely *hates* to play single player anything on a computer? This guy. Again, I have him available on the DLC on my PC, but I can’t play as him on the only working copy of MKX that I have, the PS4, unless I either beat the game, or buy a costume for him. What shit is this?
So now, jump one character further down the list, and you have Jacqui Briggs. I hopped back into the training with her, and learned a few more combos that I thought I could work into my play. I’m getting a little better about using back dashes, and armored attacks. But most importantly, I’ve watched my boy, Dab, play as Jacqui, so I have a great example to learn from.
Like always, my Jacqui play is *off the hook* compared to my Kotal Kahn play. When you mix up a few combos, in addition to her projectile, and specials, she really is a force to be reckoned with. Of course, Tanya is a character practically designed to kick Jacqui’s ass. But as long as I’m not facing Tanya, I think I’ll do pretty good.
As a matter of fact, I find that she does especially well against the newest DLC character, Predator. Don’t get me wrong, True is right when he says that the Predator is really a high pressure character. When played correctly, there’s very few and short opportunities to Punish him. But what you don’t hear about so much is that Predator doesn’t have any kind of teleporting ability. He can only come *at* you. Which means Jacqui has the best projectile in the game for stopping him.
I’m no expert on Predator’s moves, but he must have some sort of charge that can be armored. It’s not match for full auto Jacqui. She will break that armor and leave the beast wondering WTF happened.
When I play as Jacqui now, it’s not spam so much as the mixup of her gun. She has the bullet attack. But she can also shoot a rocket down or up. Like Dab, I’ve mastered the art of keeping an opponent on the far side of the screen, and *thinking* I’m a spammer. Then I run up and down the down cannon and they never knew what hit them. I find that jumping over her projectile is a loser's bet, but if someone tries it, I’m fast enough now with her up cannon to punish that, too.
Add to that her special move, with is a run up and uppercut, and you can really get some good mixups going.
Now here’s the bad part about playing as full auto Jacqui. People trash talk you. More than other characters. *Way more*. I don’t know how to describe it. And I don’t know if it has anything to do with the fact that she’s one of the younger characters, a girl, and black. But I won’t be surprised if all of those were factors in the way people trash talk me.
I wound up getting matched with this one guy three times in a row. He really talked shit. “You’re a spammer,” he said.
“I was hitting you with combos,” I said.
“No you weren’t.”
“I was! If you don’t know that, you don’t even know what’s up!”
It’s like, I’ve spammed as Sun God many games, just trying to do his stupid Brutality. Nobody ever called me a spammer. But play a beautiful mix up game with full auto Jacqui, and the shit will hit the fan.
