Yeah you're mostly gonna wanna bait people into clone or just a whiff punish in general and then start your offense. I don't think he's a character where you just come out the gate swinging on offense, especially since his strings and frame data aren't good

Take advantage of the fact most experienced players will not rush and attack Sub like a madman due to his excellent defense moves. His ice clone alone is enough to deter people from rushing you in a ready or getup position. With Sonya as kameo you can combo off all his moves. He has rather good mixups imo. His back 3,4 into kameo is a nasty combo starter which takes a lot of people by surprise.

Overhead starter low starter.

Use both of them and you instantly jump to the top 15% of sub zero players

Number 1 thing to do is to learn how to hit-confirm. Put AI on random block and make sure you can 100% of the time hit-confirm into a full combo.

Sub zero is pretty one dimensional in this game. You just mix people with the overhead and low.

Sure you can have good footsies and staggers and all that but it all works because people are afraid of his mix.

Start with the basic 50/50s then as you improve, look to improving other areas because subs mix ups should kinda carry you a little while you learn fundamentals

I know that overhead that pops them up in the air is nice (back abnd either y or triangle) but it is SLOW and you will get punished for just throwing it out. Try to work out distances too as you can frequently surprise someone with a longer range button (not special) than you think at that level

Use sonya, mix with b2 and b3, standing 2 for neutral, f1 for mid.

His typical bnb route is launcher into air 2,1 delayed ice clone, air 1, 2, end with standing 3 into slide.

He's not my main but I do play him a decent amount and have a lot of success with him. If the person you're fighting can't consistently react to b2 online it's basically a free win as long as you play well.

When I was wanting to learn, I went through the combo challenges and watched high level play on YouTube to see what was possible

Might be a bit obvious but stay composed when doing your combos and avoid random button mashing

Nah u can win without sub unless you need 1k points for mission

He has like 2 kinds of kombos why do you need almost 10 minutes for it?

I would like to help beginners out! Here are more guides like these for other characters! Link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLWTRIaseNnkXm1-ch-1VWmM18ftKOThu

You are not gonna get the ice ball on a regular match, use your normal combo starter, when you get it he is fun and very consistent

Them hitting the ground kills the combo so the FB can be blocked and punished.

Sub/Sub isn't much of a combo team but more of an anti zoning/mashing.

As others have said I think you should just learn the beginner stuff first then decide who you like to play. Once you’ve learnt the fundamentals then you’ll understand how to come up with all sorts of combos. I personally love this game for all the potential there is for creative combos

That ice ball isn’t gonna hit in neutral 99.9% of the time. I’d recommend looking up some videos on how to play neutral, how turns work, frame data etc, then you’ll be able to lab combos more efficiently

His best kameo is Serena if you don’t have khameleon. Please go do his combo tutorials.

Try foreward 1 standing 2 into down foreward 3 instead

Maybe people here don't recomend him because he is "toxic"? But Sikander is an excelent sub player with sic combo routes.

Lol there is something really wholesome about this clip, although it doens't make sense, it shows somebody having fun trying to figure things out, it really takes me back.

Overhead and lows

Are you on PS4? I main SZ. I can play with you. Also watch Tom Brady on YouTube. He's pretty methodical with regards to his playstyle. Sikander is good too. He's less predictable and a really good SZ player. He's not a loyalist though, so you won't see him use SZ against any tough matchups like Jade

You can easily punish noobs teleport

Most of the time it’s predictable too

Watch sikander on YouTube

You can block Noob's teleport by just blocking :D. Follow it up the block with an uppercut to get a free krushing blow!

For playing as Sub, practice his overhead, lows, and canceling into his specials like his iceball or slide. You can get some really good combos going if you cancel into the ice ball.

He's a blast, enjoy!

I really wish we got a Sub-Zero Cover Art for MK11 like we did for MKXL and Deception. Sub-Zero was peak here.

https://preview.redd.it/rivsxg17f19e1.jpeg?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f2262d4a0ef7270471d7198947ce33ed144bbcdc

Back when sub zero had swag

Not only do many of the brutalities seem to lack creativity, but the explosion brutalities seem to lack impact in MK1 too. It’s more like they just reduce to pulp and all the bones fall on the floor in about the same spot. The older games seemed to have greater explosions than the current game.

This was also my main, bro was he fun to play. I loved all the hate that came with it too. His damage w/ the krushing blows was insane 🔥

Interesting because it seems like Kuai was always a brutal and harsh fighter. In MK1 I see they made attempts to switch it around to make it look like Kuai is now gentle and sub is more harsh and brutal as a fighter (in personality too) but sub seems so harsh, quick and brutal here.

Special cancel into ice ball any time you can. That's your main tool. Amp slide when you can for guaranteed krushing blow on 3rd amp slide. Best variation for tournament is the first one. If you don't care about ranked use air axe and ground freeze. (Also 33 is an underrated move)

Your main combo should be

b3,2 df1 d d d d d d b1,4,3 bf3

Watch YouTube videos. Maybe play some KOTH as well to see how other players play. Practice kombos.

Also, learn other players moves. I can’t tell you the amount of times I got bodied because I didn’t know a certain characters moves.

Use Dead of Winter. Everyone is always on about his slide but the Deep Freeze you get from DOW is a much better tool for consistent damage.