Pros and Cons of Sasori for ranked matches?

[Mumei no]

I usually use him, but lately it seems like I'm seeing more and more bad things about him.

So could someone give a small pros and cons list for Sasori?

[Manjimaru]

Sasori may not be absolute best but definitely near the top of the food chain imo. My ten cents:

Pros:
- Very strong defense, as all puppetmasters have much safer attacks than others
- Has pretty much the best tilt attack in the game (flick stick forward and press B quickly). The tilt is very fast and moves forward, combos into itself (an 'infinite') and can link directly into ougi or airdash attack because the stun is so big. (make sure you press B only once when you use tilt, then you can do stuff)
- invulnerable to the broken substitute-cancel-ougi bs due to being a puppet master
- his normal jutsu is a ranged projectile that has three hits on it meaning it will win over most other projectiles when they collide, it can absorb two hits (for example itachi/sasuke fireball etc) and still hit the opponent with the third
- has bomb balls as items
- his throw leads to knockback which in turn leads to combo into ougi
- overall can combo into his ougi (ultimate jutsu) with a variety of ways
- his normal melee combo is medium difficulty to substitute

cons:
- vulnerable to normal shurikens when spammed since he cant chakra dash thru them (its the puppet that does the dashing)
- his normal jutsu has long startup making it risky to use
- his awakening mode is not so hot, it does massive damage and guardbreak but all attacks are easy to avoid

[Mumei no]

Originally Posted by Manjimaru

Sasori may not be absolute best but definitely near the top of the food chain imo. My ten cents:

Pros:
- Very strong defense, as all puppetmasters have much safer attacks than others
- Has pretty much the best tilt attack in the game (flick stick forward and press B quickly). The tilt is very fast and moves forward, combos into itself (an 'infinite') and can link directly into ougi or airdash attack because the stun is so big. (make sure you press B only once when you use tilt, then you can do stuff)
- invulnerable to the broken substitute-cancel-ougi bs due to being a puppet master
- his normal jutsu is a ranged projectile that has three hits on it meaning it will win over most other projectiles when they collide, it can absorb two hits (for example itachi/sasuke fireball etc) and still hit the opponent with the third
- has bomb balls as items
- his throw leads to knockback which in turn leads to combo into ougi
- overall can combo into his ougi (ultimate jutsu) with a variety of ways
- his normal melee combo is medium difficulty to substitute

cons:
- vulnerable to normal shurikens when spammed since he cant chakra dash thru them (its the puppet that does the dashing)
- his normal jutsu has long startup making it risky to use
- his awakening mode is not so hot, it does massive damage and guardbreak but all attacks are easy to avoid

Thanks for that

[Sagepain]

Pros: Sasori's Chakra weapon is one of the most damaging chakra weapon in the game, Deidara works extremly well with him, AND gives a supprt boost since they make a special team.
Sasori has 2 gaurds, If the opponent breaks through the puppet, then they still have to get through sasori.(tho all puppet users have that)

Sasori in awakeing hits easily with his arial attacks.... everything else misses.( This is a pro and con)

Cons:Puppet is easily knocked down.

[Manjimaru]

Originally Posted by Sagepain

Sasori has 2 gaurds, If the opponent breaks through the puppet, then they still have to get through sasori.(tho all puppet users have that)

Which makes Sasori and other puppet users inherently resilient to the chakra dash unblockable tricks.

Sasori in awakeing hits easily with his arial attacks.... everything else misses.( This is a pro and con)

Sasoris awakening is an unwieldy cannon.. It can end the game if you time it right, the trick is timing it so that you activate it when you knockdown opponent, so his slow fireball attack manages to activate before they rise up. If you make it, they need to KnJ the fireballs when they rise up. If they fail, autoguardbreak, new knockdown, repeat. Ive done over a stack of lifebar of damage in a blink of an eye with this. His only practical attack in awakening is jump shuriken (a single fast fireball).

Cons:Puppet is easily knocked down.

Not in any way more easily or harder as other puppet characters puppets. Same rules, if you get hit while not blocking, the puppets down.

[Rasengan SageX5]

I can make his awakening work pretty darn well against everyone but awakened Killer Bee or Naruto(both versions). The chakra blasts from those characters give you no time to launch your puppet storm and even if you do get it off, they don't really flinch and can still hit you if they launch the energy soon enough.

[Sagepain]

Originally Posted by Rasengan SageX5

I can make his awakening work pretty darn well against everyone but awakened Killer Bee or Naruto(both versions). The chakra blasts from those characters give you no time to launch your puppet storm and even if you do get it off, they don't really flinch and can still hit you if they launch the energy soon enough.

true, weirdly enough it Beats Susano'o so easily everytime I fight him.