Echo Fox’s Dominique “Sonic Fox” McLean is a player who needs no introduction, particularly for players in the NetherRealm scene. Recently, the 4-time Evo champion for all three previous NRS titles shared his picks and insight for which characters in Injustice 2 will be the most effective in competitive play, before the title’s release next Tuesday.

Mainly focusing on the many newcomers to the cast, he notes that his Day 1 main will be Captain Cold, NRS’s first attempt at a true trap character.

It’s the first time that NRS is actually doing a trap character and setup-y character, like perfectly, and that’s my archetype I look for in fighting games. He has so much trickery and setups that he can just keep the opponent guessing over and over on their knockdown. He looks like he has a solid advancing mid, a very fast low that he can setup traps from, a D1 that looks like it’s about 7 frames. He looks like he’s all around very hard to get in on, very hard to approach, and if you’re put into the wrong situation, it might be game.

Conversely, he doesn’t think that Cheetah will be that great, as she not only has to get in as a pure rushdown character, but appears to live and die by her 50/50 mixups, that could be unsafe if the opponent guesses correctly. But he’ll reserve full judgment until he sees more of her. He also had an interesting perspective on DLC character Darkseid.

He looks top tier as I don’t know what. He has traps, 50/50s from just jumping at you, one of the best zoning games ever. A crazy Trait that allows him to combo after his grab. He looks like he might be a little too ridiculous, so that’s why I’m learning him too if he’s allowed in tournaments day 1. What’s his weakness?

Shifting to the subject of returning veterans, Fox expressed great hope in The Joker’s greatly-improved quality of life.

He’s going to take a lot of work, but he’s going to be a lot better than he was in Injustice 1. I’m really excited to try him. He looks really cool, and seems to have a lot of new trickery and setups. Hopefully they did him right this time.

You can catch the full video–where Fox also discusses Brainiac, Black Canary, Firestorm, Dr. Fate, Harley Quinn and Robin–below.

Source: Yahoo! Esports