Puzzled about AI joker's surprising ability

[gungadin22000]

I just started playing Joker. I read online that he's supposed to be one of the worst characters in the game and after losing repeatedly to a medium difficulty Red Hood, a character I had no difficulty beating on any of the other characters I'dtried, I had to agree.

However, when I tried setting the AI to control my joker, he seemingly buzzsaws through his opponents, faster than most other characters I set on AI control.

Mind you, I only play vs AI, but is the joker somewhat underrated as a character vs the AI and is just hard to play well? Or is it just that his moveset is so offensively-minded that the AI opponents don't get to exploit his bad defenses?

[Gaxkang]

Oh well medium difficulty anyone shouldn't be an issue, player character-wise. Pretty much just make good use of his projectile, low projectile, and his mixup combos. Use his chattering teeth too if you can. Plus his crowbar attack. He's got some good tools to work with.

Advanced AI makes everyone really strong in this...Wonder Woman is very very tough with advanced AI.
IMO it can reveal bad game designs in the game, but well.

Online Joker with lag can be a real handful (to where I wouldn't bother with the fight)...his mixup's and corner stuff and chattering teeth mixed with mixup's is all the more diffucult to deal with.
His projectile essentially becomes instant hitting...one can tell if you see him shoot it and you hit duck but you still get hit anyways. That's lag.

[Skulker_S]

The whole tier list stuff really only applies to high level play.

For relativly new players and medium AI you don't have to worry about, pretty much everything can work fine.

[Jacowboy]

Yeah everyone plays goldy when the AI controls them =P

Honestly I just go for characters with easy but reliable combos...