You can plink ultra with hk if you disable taunts.
Blanka’s hard punch ball can be punished by c.mk from what im hearing from a friend who played the arcade edition today… his ex electricity and c.lk have been improved also but nothing note worthy to be honest… ken, sakura, thawk and other characters who cant punish ball match ups became alot less fun =/
cr.lk buff is big, whos ur mate and improved how d?
improved cr.lk is a deffo a big buff.
if it’s 3 frames i’m gonna shit a brick.
I would trade blanka ball nerfs for cr.lk buff gladly. The only possible buffs could be bigger hitbox, more block/hit stun, or faster startup. Man, if Blanka’s cr.lk is 3 frames and/or it gives one more frame of hitstun, I’m sold.
A 2 frame link to ultra off short would be pretty sweet alright. Ill doubt thats true though.
I support this, tested and plinking ultra after crouch short kicks work.
He tells us a c.lk buff and then leaves us hanging…I wanna know what it is as well…thats like the light at the end of a dark ass tunnel
quick brainstorm, what can you do thats cool with a 3f cr.lk or a cr.lk which is +5 on hit?
3f:
increased effectiveness of hop tricks as opponent has to block or mash 1f earlier
+1:
cr.lk>cr.lk > cr.mk x ball
cr.lk > frame trap effectivness increase
cr.lk > ultra gauranteed
Blanka would be MUCH scarier with a quick attack that has a 2f link to ultra with no meter. I’m almost willing to bet that Capcom wouldn’t allow this but, hey, there’s boxer doing the same thing.
cr.lk, cl.mk, st.lp as a bunch of one frame hit confirms.
Counterhit cr.lk SWEEP
cr.mk, cr.lk, cr.mk ball
if it was +5
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overhead -> cr.lk
if it was +3 and overhead is actually improved.
Please boys FFS stop posting that sweet sweet stuff… The pain will be to brutal if the poor green guy doesn’t get any cr.LK changes at all 
cr. LK that you mention would actually make him a top tier and a mixup/pressure monster… Hop shananigans, cr.LK -> elec. pressure, links into U1… Either block all day and eat mixups/elec. or try to reversal/mash and get punished, hard. 
top tier? … far from it…
c.LK improvements will be great… but at the end of the day his fundamentals are still weak…
if the opponent have significantly more life… a lot (if not all) of the characters got option selects that can pretty much shut down all his options… except EX ball which they can punish blanka back for much more on hit…
when a character’s defensive/offensive option can be severely limited like that… by most characters… there’s no way he can make it to the top.
c.LK even at 3 frames still suffers from range… it’s never gonna be like boxer’s jabs.
even at 2 frame link it doesn’t guarantee an ultra… it might be easier but you’re not talking about so easy where’s its like doing a c.LK xx ball
there’s plenty of other fundamental aspect that will limit blanka to be the top … and with his most recent AE changes… even if his combo department got such a drastic boost imo it’s not enough to pump him back up…
honestly… i rather trade for a much better throw range… i think that is more needed than a better c.LK
-LAU
I like to use HP ball alot to bait fireballs after they block for U2. Won’t work now.
Has ONO ever made a good fighting game? He’s on the credits for 3s but what did he actually have to do with the game mechanics other than the sound? Same with 4, what did he do other than oversee some things. So the game is developed by another company and published by Capcom and then he slaps his name on it? Correct me if I’m wrong.
OMG This is extremely disappointing… I thought they were gonna give him a command grab…J/k J/k. but the nerf’s still suck.
keep in mind… SF4/SSF4 despite the fact he’s the producer… he’s only one man… the game is built by a team of people. As far as I’m concerned… his job got not much to do with the actual balancing of the game… he’s actually taken a bigger role this time by being part of marketing the game with being more tuned in with the fans through twitter. As far as who’s getting stronger and who’s getting nerfed… he probably doesn’t have too much say on that… he might not even be that good at SF4 compared to most of us. But like i said his job is getting the game produced on time, managing every aspect of it, but doesn’t mean the fine details of things. As he mentioned before… he’s got a Battle Programmer/Designer which I believe is incharge of who’s getting nerfed and who’s getting buffed.
Like any big videogames out there, its a business… not a hobby… hardcore fan is only a minority … not the majority… and among this minority… Blanka players does not represent the majority either… so… you’re talking about pleasing a fraction of a fraction of players… this type of stuff isn’t exactly gonna boost up their sales… because at the end of the day… we all need to pay our mortgages.
-LAU
@ LAU
ehmmm…they do the game for the arcades!
there are ONLY hardcore gamers!
the game has been sold and we get the AE changes as DLC!
so there is absolutely no reaseon to please the casual players cuz they wont buy SSF4 if they didnt buy it already!
so the patch is for the hardcore community and they want a balanced game!
you cant find noob scrubs that use the high tier characters for easy wins as often as it used to be cuz they get completely destroyed by the huge number of experienced players!
as i said:
DONT PANIC! ball nerf sux hard but maybe we get some nice stuff in exchange, like a better cr.LK that has been mentionend
Not true. I bet there are a ton of scrub and casual players who play the arcade version. They probably get owned by Blanka Ball, D/F Hp all the time too.
Scrub/casual player: GODDAMIT every time i fireball i eat sliding fist and everytime i dont fireball i eat blanka ball cause i suck at blocking and even when i block its free chip and then he throws me!! :looney::looney:
And EX Ball goes through my fireballs y is blanka so brokenzzz!?!?!?!?!
i wont hold my breath and hope for something good. poor jimmy got screwed and capcom reserved him a top spot at the bottom of the ranking. mark my words.