You have two choices here. Eat 200 damage, or spend half your meter and possibly punish his expected followup with ultra. FADCing a CoD is a great way to turn a bad situation (CoD on block) into an excellent mixup situation.
J.fp beats sky high claw basically for free (good vegas might Izuna Drop you to grab you out of the air, but it’s not really that feasible). You can punish a backflip easily with wheel kick or far s.mp (because he’s vulnerable at the end of the backflip). A step kick is a better punish, but the timing on that is harder. You can’t do this on your wakeup, though.
Cross vega up on his wakeup all day. Crossups are really good versus Vega because he has no good anti-airs and it messes up his charge too. Seriously, cross him up like every time.
You can punish the Barcelona Dive (the off the wall torpedo attack) with ultra.
there were times where i anti air cr.hp into cod but i didnt ultra, i can pull that off in training mode consistently but lately in real matches i tend to miss that so i EX FS instead.
i also noticed that i didnt cr.mp xx rekka as much.
is there something i have not caught on to yet? i see alot of abels… especially abelity using the normal throw. is there ever a reason why we should be using normal throw over tornado throw???
especially after a missed srk, id have to go with tornado throw over normal
2 frames faster. After a step kick, Abel has a decent mind game going here. If you do a normal throw, no non-reversal in the game will beat it (you’re at +1 and a throw takes 3 frames). So they might want to tech. But if they do that and you TT, they eat the TT. However, they can poke you out of the TT if they have good timing with a 3-frame move. (Jumping obviously beats both here, so you need another option, like close s.mp)
Those two frames really do make a lot of difference sometimes. If I’m punishing dictator’s standing roundhouse cheese with roll -> throw, I don’t want to whiff because I gave him time to jump. I personally rely too much on the normal throw, though.
Also, sometimes you just don’t have time to input hcb.
If you’re worried you’ve misstimed your punish, sometimes I’ll go for the normal grab against a lp shoryu just to make sure I don’t get shoryu’d while trying to punish.
You need to be able to use every possible option to win… Abel’s bread and butter basics won’t work to win all the time. Those still might make up the most of your offense but being able to do unusual shit like Shiro did there, or something like CoD FADC F+MK, TT and using your lower damage options (normal throws, as discussed before, standing lk, etc.) effectively are important.
Abel is a mix up character. You need to do be able to do as much as possible so that you don’t fall into a predictable pattern And LOL at “I’ll eat the SRK”… 200 damage and you give him a potential ultra setup. Eating a move should never be an option over spending meter to potentially setup a big punish combo.
just so you guys know, i recorded a few matches this morning and im uploading them right now. check my youtube page, http://www.youtube.com/user/xbstx under 5/15 online matches. they are all pretty much against ronstoppable (socal’s OG rog). this was pretty early in the morning for me at least so my reaction speed kinda sucked/was warming up but here you go just having fun with casuals
edit: forgot to mention the regular video quality sucks ass so either add &fmt=18 to the end of the url or click on the link that i will add in the description of the video. also you can hear my stick and its really loud! sorry but it has to be in the video, the camera is pretty much right next to me heh.
that reset combo somewhere in the middle with the dask kick after the roll was awesome, need to try that. think it’s better than the light punch one? apart from damage, but just general confusion XD
nice vids busta, i need to apply that reset combo in my game.
Fought a 20k bp gouki at the arcades just now, damn he’s good(i didnt get pwned or anything though). I landed an antiair cr.hp hp cod into ultra (that felt good especially with an audience watching )
can ya record vids against gouki? wanna see how you handle most of his shenanigans
Nah , Kiku… vega can just backflip away from crossups. At least a good vega will. Like the Pro vega I played at the last tourney. What I would say do is… if you miss crossup do a dashthen wheel kick , or ust wheel kick depending on which backflip vega does. If he does one flip wheel kick , if he does dash then wheel kick. Or , just do what you feel is the best option for the situation.
And LOL at “I’ll eat the SRK”… 200 damage and you give him a potential ultra setup. Eating a move should never be an option over spending meter to potentially setup a big punish combo.