Nah
WK overall is a good move: overhead, situational AA and great damage,
my only problem is rH version’s recovery
Sorry I was just lurking and found that hilarious.
WRONG!every version of WK you can be poked and jabbed out of.even on hit some characters can punish you.plus his ex wk has short range so its pretty much useless inless ur in a akuma vortex.it needs knockdown or alot less recovery time,your wrong.the idea of the move is good but their no point o using it in a combo if u have fs.
cr.Jab beating out wheel kicks is pretty stupid.
Its hitboxes need to be tweaked.
you can jab ALOT of moves in SF4 that does’nt make it a bad move.
In fact the only reason WK is not way better than say… Hurricane kicks(which can be punish more ways) is the fact that recovery is slow, so you REALLY have to space it right so you wont get punish on block or hit.
Well timed and spaced WK are great, safe on block, if they try to jab either they get hit or trade, and given the Damage WK does, thats a trade i’d take no problem, and can be a jump trap for some characters thrying to jump out of the zone
Give him an uppercut, please.
great idea, a fireball while you’re at it
Silly Rabbit. Obviously his uppercut would shoot fireballs (from his armpit).
i agree that the wheel kick has to be better than this
but they must reduce its damage if they are going to make it faster/knocks down
im gonna have to disagree with that last part becasue c.mp cod fadc ex wk does like 350 damage or something like that where as a fs would do a little under 300 so i like to use it sometimes to end a match if i know that fs just wont get those last pixels of health, its rare that i use it though but its useless but not COMPLETELY useless
meant to say f+mk s.fp cod fadc ex wk does 350
Whilst I agree with you it’s not too hard to see why people get frustrated over it; given a dp will not only work in every reversal situation but is also comboable into ultra.
Why not just fix what’s wrong with dragon punch(ryus) instead of going through every thread where everyone wants their very own “answer to everything” move?
Anyone see his alternate? I can’t make it out, but he has some facial hair, something across his back, and a headband. I’m guessing he’s supposed to look Rambo-like. Here’s the link if you haven’t seen it: link
As for changes, I’d like his sweep hitbox to actually match the animation of the sweep. And give EX FS similar properties as Soul Throw. In Abel’s second Ultra, you see him jump, knee to the stomach, and do the little back roll throw thing. Just make that the new animation of EX FS. It wouldn’t be totally useful… just like Soul Throw, it would have a weird angle and a ton of recovery frames.
… or just increase the damage of EX FS.
i’ve been using abel’s st.lk lately. It isn’t that great because the damage sucks compared to other characters pokes, i think it should deal more damage or they should give him another better poke instead
and i still insist that they must give him better hit confirms 
this is from the last blog:
Okada:
In SFIV, when Zangief did a Double Lariat against larger characters, really the only thing they could do was to block it. For example, maybe Abel players aren’t too fond of the matchup against Zangief. So this time in SSFIV, we’re making adjustments to avoid things like that.
oh man I hope they do this right! Zangief zangief zangief… I can’t even take this match to seriously now cause of his nonsense.
Someone at the casuals in my area mentioned an interesting idea to me when we were discussing some of Abel’s downfalls; what would you guys think of being able to FADC after wheel kick? When we were talking we came to the realization that being able to combo right from WK would likely be too good, but then he had the FADC idea and I’m not really knowledgeable enough to know whether it would be a viable change.
I have thought of that, but then I thought “Abel is in the air when he’s doing a wheel kick, and when it hits he is pretty much still in the air, so it wouldn’t really work…”
I still say if abels wheel kick had knockdown it would get rid of all distance problems anyone had (connecting the “wrong” wheel kick and getting punished for it)
But it would be SO fucking OP
You’d still have to worry about getting it blocked.