AE Matchup Discussion: Abel, Adon, Akuma, Balrog, Blanka

You can hop twice it works for sure. You catch them on the other side. Or you can just hop then cs.MK or c.LK xx HP. I play abels a lot i know what you’re talking about. Any of those can work.

how do you beat abel who always do crouch tech? i can’t do a bloody hop and their light kick is just annoying :frowning:

stop hopping

Abel’s cr.lk comes out in 5f. Blanka’s cr.lk and cr.mk are +1 on block. Depending on his crouch tech timing, there are lots of options you can use to punish him for crouch teching.

cs.MP cs.MK c.MK timed correctly are all solid options.

how do you guys deal with wheel kick in footsies? i always used to hate that one

mullah. just position yourself correctly against him, there is a sweet spot where if he wheel kicks you with LK you can hit it with just about anything after blocking it. I normally just go for fs.LP into ball, but i think you can punish it with even c.HP (wheel kick is super minus on block unles it’s EX and even ex can be punished with ultra/fs.LP etc).

Blocking wheel kick can be done on reaction so if you’re getting caught by it you’re downbacking too much. I find abel’s low game to be really weak so i rarely block low against him. If he c.HK on block it’s super unsafe, and if he cancels it into anything i can either throw him out of roll or i can just block his wheel kick high and punish.

Depends on range, if your a step away then lp, lk, mp, cr mp, hk all work as counters. If your a few steps away then it depends on your reaction speed. You can block then punish with jab or counter with cr mp easy. Up ball, hori ball, hk all work too, but you have to react faster. If you are far enough away you can jump over it and punish with a nice combo of your choice.

oh if you’re talking about what to do before it gets to you, you can just slide i think.

Slide isn’t safe if your close, goes under= thrown or worse. Works fine far away. There is a spot where it will trade though. Also you can crouch or hop if you react fast.

Ultra

Super

i think i would be too slow to ultra it on reaction! i thought it was safe on block if you spaced the lk version correctly

spaced correctly lk is safe.

I just press mk when I see wheel kick.

Mk is a magic button, it beats everything.

mk doesn’t beat blanka slide!!!

I use fs.MK against chicken wing, i dunno why but it works easier then all my other stuff.

far mk has a low profile hitbox. It doesn’t get as low as say cr.mp, but it is only 5 frames.

standing rh should be pretty good against chickenwing, works everytime I can react to the chicken wing.