You can safe meaty the sobat. Elec because of active frames, low short because of how quick it recovers.
The El Fuerte matchup is so annoying. I can never tell when I should be turtling or when I should be attempting to throw him or get him with buffered electricity. I haven’t been able to find any videos of this matchup in AE 2012 so if someone could help me out I’d appreciated it.
I only found that on Youtube :
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I don’t have much XP against Fuerte, but i feel it’s easy for Blanka and Fuerte seems very weak.
Upball beats almost everything he can do on wake up. if he has meter dont jump recklessly or its a free EX Guacamole.
Far HK’s second hit hits overhead.
crMK is what you want to worry about during RSP. LP xx hop
I made a video covering his changes etc. Personally this matchup is definitely in Blanka’s favor since Upball is so good against him. I suggest you NEVER rainbow roll and sparingly slide as if the Fuerte Expects it you will get focus’d and Run Stop Fierce’d. He could already punish Blanka Ball on block with reversal timing run xx calamari slide. Now that Blanka ball recovery is worse in AE2012 I think a keen fuerte can and will RSF you on it.
Upball any reckless wakeup shenanigans. El Fuerte should not be running recklessly. if he is, blanka ball the shit out of him.
Again, do not recklessly jump on him. You will eat EX Guac and Armor Cancel ultra. Be careful of a ‘safe tortilla’ setup. Fuerte can space out his Tortilla and control the distance, while Upball is a good answer for him Fuerte can make the upball whiff, then he gets a free whatever on blanka.
That said. I hate Blanka and I’m completely free to him T_T
Good fuerte(iperu, spabrog) have upball whiff setups so be careful.
The matchup is stupid. Neutral game is very prediction based, I fullscreen slide in neutral to catch habanero dash forward attempts. St.strong/jab and low forward closer in are all really important. If you block cr.hk always tech or backdash. Never hit buttons, not worth getting frame trapped.
If you’ve managed to knock fuerte down(aa, throw, slide, etc.) you want to apply pressure then. Otherwise chill out and build meter and wait for him to do something punishable or throw out a button predicting him to do something. Don’t jump. Getting air thrown or Guac’d and having to deal with pressure is not what you want.
If you’re knocked down don’t panic. Each mixup does low damage/stun so what fuerte really wants is for you to panic and hit you with rsf or ultra. Just chill and be patient. Focus backdashing can be good. If you get hit out of the air by tostada you can quickrise unlike if you get hit grounded which gives you a chance to get away.
Also one thing I can’t stress enough about fuerte is to maximize. Damage/Pressure/Momentum. He’s slippery and gets worse the more meter he has. You don’t want to let him go and go back to playing the stupidest neutral game in any of blanka’s matchups.
Pretty much this in every respect. Upball whiffs can be setup with his Tortilla move. I think Fuerte has one of the strongest Neurtal games personally.
Be careful with focus backdashing too much though. That’s a free ultra or Quesadilla bomb.
Calm down, think, and keep him Floored and you got it. Also don’t forget about his air throw.
I have a vid vs iiperu out there i think.
He has a good aa game so stay grounded. This is actually a really fun matchup. Lots of rushdown and chaos. Have fun with it and just apply pressure when you have a knockdown.
s.HP as always is a good normal vs his movement up close. Also focus attack super solid in this.
Does Blanka have a reliable way to punish any of Honda’s headbutts? Hop throw seems to be the best option but its inconsistent it seems like.
if you hop after a headbutt honda can do low forward xx hands, low forward xx headbutt do you for like 350 damage, AKA DON’T DO IT.
You can slide mp/hp headbutts. You just have to let ex/jab go.
Thanks…so he can basically do LP and EX Headbutts for free? At least he’s got to use meter for the EX ones.
This matchup is incredibly frustrating.
Free headbutts all day erryday.
Yeah I pick deejay or sagat vs. honda.
Honda players insist it is 5-5 though.
I’ve been thinking about learning Dee Jay as my secondary character because I enjoy him a lot. I used to play a little Guile. Also Honda because he’s piss easy, if you can do Blanka’s stuff consistently Honda’s combos are all basically easier variations of them.
don’t learn deejay it’s a waste of time. He’s better vs. honda/cammy/abel than blanka is but hes not good vs. them. If you want the perfect Blanka Alt learn Ken.
DJ is not a bad match up for Cammy?
it’s 5-5 at best. she can’t auto pilot vs. him but she can outfootsie him and just beat him with meaty pressure on knockdowns.
Its interesting you mention that because I did play Ken a long time ago. Since you suggested it, maybe its a perfect time to give Mr. Masters another go.
Ken? over akuma?
Akuma is about as good too.
They have similar matchup numbers against most of the problem characters. Akuma is probably better vs. Abel/Fei/Honda/Boxer, but ken is better vs. Sagat, Cammy, Seth, and Dictator.
My worst matchups are fei/cammy/honda mostly. Balrog does well vs all those and i used to main him so that’s who i alt with.
Fei is not that hard personnally with more practice, my biggest problems with him are : avoid the corner and guessing right with rekka’s pressure.
Cammy is horrible.