Reina without Electrics

[Generaal Thee met Melk]

I do'nt play mishima's because I can't wave dash and I'm inconsistent with electrics.

Is she a character that I can play without electrics or is that just like other mishima's the backbone of her gameplan?

[Spooky7.62]

She has easy access to eletrics just down forward 3 to get the stance followed by a 1 or 2 for electric no dash required.

Edit: she has easy versions and the normal versions.

[progste]

You can play her without electrics.
Yes, there is a "easy access" version but I would ignore it since it doesn't really have what makes electrics strong, use DF2 instead.
At high levels of course you need electrics, but in noob ranks it's fine.

[Ein]

You shouldn't play a Mishima if you can't do electrics.

[Make otgf -9 pls]

Originally posted by TuffyBella:

I do'nt play mishima's because I can't wave dash and I'm inconsistent with electrics.

Is she a character that I can play without electrics or is that just like other mishima's the backbone of her gameplan?

You can but ewgf is just too good not to use it but if you really like the char go with it and do poking/stance pressure. The main issue is ewgf is her only long range wiff punisher as df2 range is inferior

[Tourette's Guy]

Originally posted by TuffyBella:

I do'nt play mishima's because I can't wave dash and I'm inconsistent with electrics.

Is she a character that I can play without electrics or is that just like other mishima's the backbone of her gameplan?

She's a bit like Heihachi. You don't need to master EWFG to play her efficiently. Mastering it is a nice plus, but in the case of Reina, it's not required, at least not below red ranks. In high-level ranked, it's another story. Definitely you will need to master EWGF if you manage to climb that high.

On the other hand, she is considerably more complex than Heihachi due to her 4 different stances.

[Ciaran Zagami]

I think Reina is so popular because she doesn't need electrics to have good moves.

Getting them is a huge plus, but not mandatory for her. Unless you wanna get to the top end high ranks in competitive.

She's a very "high tier" character compared to others that require either more complex execution or better mind games.

[souper]

If you want a Mishima-style character that doesn't *need* electrics, go play Jin. If you can do the crouch-dash input consistently to get his hook fist out, you are good to go. He also has a stance electric from doing stance (f3+4->df->2), which is an exact copy of the electric hook fist. In heat, you also get electrics without the just-frame input. Unfortunately learning how to do the wavedash is just part of playing the archetype, you will have to drill the muscle memory into your hands

Jin does play a bit differently compared to Reina, Kazuya etc but he is still very accessible and can perform well