My thoughts on MK’s viability, a thread.

I would like to start with that I don’t think MK is solo viable with how things are. However, I don’t think this is for the same reasons that most people think. I’ve spoken to lots of people about where they think MK sits in the meta and I think a lot of people are uninformed.

A lot of people seem to think MK has a 50/50 neutral which makes him linear and easy to beat. I think this is a massive misconception and hasn’t been true at any point in Ulti. Perhaps optimal MK may be close to 50/50 with landing nair or grab but he defs isn’t DA/DG anymore.

Another issue I see brought up is he lacks damage or kill power. Firstly, I think he may struggle to get damage if he misses his combos but offline that’s rarely a problem. Secondly, I don’t think people understand how many kill confirms and kill moves this char has.

I’ve also seen people say that his range holds him back but I’d also have to disagree. His range is actually really good across the cast and his body proportions just make his sword look smaller. Lots of MK’s moves will out space lucina’s for example.

I think MK’s biggest problem is that even though he has a great MU spread and no really bad MU’s, I think the MU’s that he does slightly lose to are such popular characters. This basically means that if you want to win a bracket, every second or so MU is slightly losing.

He really only has 15 or so losing MU’s and only one of those is worse than -1 but when the -1 MU’s are characters like palu, Mario, cloud, rats, Diddy, fox, it makes a bracket hard just because the losing MU’s are so popular.

I think MK is a really good character in a theoretical world where there’s an equal amount of players for each character. As it stands I think MK is an amazing duel-main character because he wins some really important MU’s but I don’t think he’s solo viable.