Rising star, pissed off and shades is the standard. Matchup wise, sometimes people drop pissed off for low forceball. But it really depends on you. What is the goal of using JC?

I ask this because depending on your goals, I’d run different things. For example if you’re not committed to learning it, there’s no reason to use a slot for shades. Shades is not easy to do, it takes time in the lab and even then, I can do it in the lab with no issue but I’ve only hit it once in a match.

To the other guy who said to basically temper your expectations as JC plays different.. yeah that’s true. I started with JC and have since tried spawn, joker, liu, subzero.

Where you really notice the difference or at least I did is when I play Liu or Joker, especially liu though. The importance of a good mid in this game is.. high. And JC lacks that, so opening people up takes time.

also watch rewind DashFight YouTube guide on Johnny Cage

Rising Star. It will help you keep safe on strings that would be easy to punish otherwise.

rising star, throwing shades, and pissed off is my go to and is what i’ve seen used by lots of competitive players. an alternate variation of rising star, throwing shades, and low forceball against some characters that zone heavy or regular force balls don’t jail on them (like joker and kitana). practice landing the throwing shades kb, it can clutch you sooo many games and is very satisfying to hit. good luck

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Rising Star, Pissed off, and brass knuckles.

Probably the best set for pressure

His most important tool is spacing. His B+3 starts with an advancing low string and his f+3 is a high. Johnny will step forward quite a bit so you can hit an opponent that's about the same distance as the match start.

b+3,4 bd3 amp dash 1,2,1 db3 This is a good low bnb. You can also do a high string f+3,4,4 before nut punch. If you end a combo with nut punch you can stand your opponent back up and mix it up with a throw too.

Try his Liu Kang variation. It plays the same way but does it well.

Otherwise, wait for the patch.

Jesus no, dont listen to the other guy. NEVER USE BRASS KNUCKLES! You are dropping what little pressure johnny can deal to activate it and then you'll get no benefit from it because it will only enhance your punches for a few seconds and you are meant to approach with your kicks as a cage player.

Caged rage sucks too. Use it VERY sparringly to stay unpredictable. Mime time is ONLY for extremely good reads like when you know that the opponent will perform a getup attack.

Ignore his second variant.

Play Sonya like every single retard out there is the best advice for any char

Don't play him against females.

Oh he is good, just like any other Johnny with the SP1 spam, but pair him with SF Scorpion, you drain a bar of power on tag in and have some revives too, I used him in the previous krypt week and he served me well, I would fuse him up more before using him tho, the downside is probably his base stats aren't that high for a diamond

Oh this guy is a real trooper 💪

Learn the fundimentals of fighting games like footsies, neutralgame, et cetera (this is info that'll be useful in ANY fighting game)

Play the tutorial, both the basic and the character specific one for Johnny if you're having trouble with learning the pacing of combos/ button presses.

Go on youtube, look up tutorials and tips for the character by pros. The newer the better.

Play lots of matches, learn how to adapt to different matchups, and learn from your mistakes but don't take losses too hard; no one gets "ok" at fighting games without getting their teeth punched in a whole lot, no one gets "good" without getting their ass beat a whole lot more after that.

If you playing versus or mk league learn your opponent I can’t stress that enough a lot of people play in a type of move pattern once you learn that you’ll be good and do not get discouraged if you lost like 2 games back to back the thing I will say tho is watch out for the sub zeros and the raidens their fucking annoying

Learn delay wake up use it to your advantage

Ignore specials while you learn your strings. Once you get those down, learn to fit specials in

Xombat does some REALLY good johnny cage tutorials, could also watch ninjakillas more recent johnny video. Both great ways to get down how johnny plays

took longer than i had hoped but finally got it out hope it helps those looking to pick him up , still trying to get the format right so if you guys have any feed back please let me know so i can improve on these guides

It's funny how even with those 2 KBs in a single combo his second variation is still so damn bad. The mime parry also isn't as reliable as the video makes it look during its segment due to its start up time (Also, Liu kang probably beats it because it cannot parry aerial attacks IIRC).

Should've mentioned that he has no overheads at all (Besides the universal one). Easily his biggest flaw since his pressure becomes a joke in tournament variations.

Where are all the Johnny downplayers? Not long ago people were acting like he was the worst character in the game due to KB requirements.

How to beat Johnny.

• Crouch block.
• Punish.
• You win.

As a JC main, I really wish it was as easy as you make it sound lol JC requires so much work compared to other fighters.

He does anything he wants to. D3 is ridiculously fast.

I actually don't care I just block and move towards him and fuck him up lol.

He is a whiff punishing machine he doesn’t have mixups like sub zero ( sub mixups can carry people whether you’re good or not at times ) you have to play neutral, like the other guy said, go in and out within the range of you’re strings, and good example would be walk forward then back to bait out an attack then use b3 string to whiff punish for a combo. He also has a lot of strings with good push back so you can back dash and if he whiffs, whiff punish that too. He is the most neutral focused character in the game

The key to him is movement. He’s a character you really need to focus on your footsies and spacing with. Go on and out of the range of his advancing buttons and punish people when they whiff their attacks against you.

His pressure is really good, so keep doing that while they try to figure out when to counter attack and to add in some throws so they can’t just sit there blocking and they do need to do something.

He’s a very different style of play than Sub Zero, so you can’t just charge in and mix with him. You want to focus on being in the mid range, just past jump distance.

Johnny is a character that requires a lot of conditioning to open up opponents. He is also really good at whif punishing so spacing is key. A lot of options in his offense are punishable but he has the tools to make the opponents scared to try something. Forward 3 is a really good button into his multi kicks string for an easy hitconfirm into nutpunch combo and pretty safe on block if u don't do the last jump kick .

Forward 3 also is a good stagger so forward 3 into throw/another string is nice.

The problem here is forward 3 hits high so you risk getting poked, uppercut kb, etc

Forward 4 comes into play here as it's another kick into a string but it hits mid so not duckable/no uppercut risk. The trade off is you can't hitconfirm that string into a combo. It's safe on block but your turn is over.

2 options to condition the opponent, that's how he plays.

Another example is the 121 and 124 string. 121 is safe, end with a mid. It's not plus on block so your pressure is over if blocked but at least you're safe.

124 is very plus on block and gets you easy pressure afterward. The trade off here is they can duck the last hit and punish you.

Mix up these two or just do 12 to see what their tendencies are on third hit with this string.

And yes his krushing blows are really bad. You throw a lot with Johnny so throw kb's would be sweet to have.

Johnny becomes dangerous on fatal blow health as he can Dash cancel his Fatal Blw to safely hitconfirm and even jail from forward 4, which is his best mid. Forward 4 on block Dash cancel into string or Dash cancel into throw are all great and if it does hit you can confirm into a combo.

Also fb Dash cancel doesn't waste your fatal blow for the rest of the match so u can use it multiple times when it recharges.

Hope this helps. Johnny mains unite

It's difficult during the first week, you will have to get used to the timing. In the meantime you can F4 into any special for an easy combo. Heck, you can even do another nut punch there for a restand for more pressure.

Yea I do. What’s really annoying is trying to combos and somehow end up doing the Show Off move where he just stands there and taunts. He’s wide open for awhile and you can’t do nothing. And I don’t know what the purpose of the move is

Did you change the button input from released to push I find 10 times easier pulling off combos and inputs in general other then that if you go to tutorial tab and do the select button it shows you on your device the timing and how fast or slow you would have to input said combo other then that I suggest either watching some youtubers, my suggestion is either sonicfox or maxamillian. Good luck ��

I struggled with Johnny at the start, thinking he had low damage. I guess my frame of mind switch has been "stop trying to jump in and do a fancy combo", just work on my spacing and be a nuisance with staggered pressure and grabs.

Best advice I can think of as a starting point, is to focusing on your spacing/ whiff punishing. Then close the gap with B34 and F344. Both great gap closers that can be combo'd into Nut Punch. Also using D1 to steal your turn, then grab, D4 on hit is great too, leaves you plus enough to jail them into another F344. Even on block F344 leaves you at quite a safe hard to punish distance. Lastly F4 is quite a handy mid hitting approach.

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