c.HK is an interesting beast. It basically works like an instant overhead, where it’s impossible to react to it, but if you manage to block it, you get a free punish. The difference is that they can’t punish you on hit, making it an actually usable tool. It seems to have hitbox issues though, it whiffed point blank vs Elena when she tried to stand tech in one of the videos.
That might be Elena specific though as she has a weird hitbox.
Cr.Hk is an overhead, really? Hugo looks so much more interesting than any other grappler right now. Decent focus, decent dashes, good AA, big damage out of a throw, good corner push and plenty overheads… sounds like he got many of the things that were denied for Zangief and Hawk.
I’ll be suprised if he turns out bad.
Probably, but it feels like the range of this move has just gotten shorter and shorter over time.
His armor effect on the focus looks a bit off no? Not centered.
Here is some USF4 footage, hugo is up first!
Looks like his standing fierce no longer has armor. Shame.
Honestly sounded too good to be true and too brainless as an anti air
That elbow smash move? It does have armour. I saw it a guy do it in the middle of a block string during that stream.
The timing must be strict to get it, you have to do the move preemptively. I think combo knew that if it had armor on frame one people could armor cancel to spd and hugo would be wayyyyy to strong as a grappler. So he made sure you had to commit to the normal to get the armor to come out. Just like UltraDavid said he believes Hugo must commit to normals like sim does, and since this game is supposed to focus more on footsies, I see no problem with that.
Heya folks, long time lurker, but Hugo in USF4 has gotten my dander up 
If i remember rightly Cr.Hk was pretty bonkers SF3 as it hit at different heights dependant upon the range it connected, in close it counted as a low, further out it became an overhead, can anyone confirm if this is the case for USF4?
To be more specific you can find the match around 56:50 he does it in round 1 and 2 three times total looking pretty good
Hugo focus dashes right through a fireball for an SPD. Also Ultra Throw lead to about 1/3 damage. Seeing a lot of people getting tagged vy random Meat Squashers as well; it may be due to the fact that the startup looks so similar to Giant Lariat and they’re expecting to be able to block and punish only to get snatched up.
Hugo is gonna have some absolutely ass matchups but overall he looks pretty strong, he seems to have a pretty varied bag of tricks compared to the other grapplers.
Hugo and T. Hawk will be the star grapplers, shame Zangief is probably long gone unless something amazing is discovered. Oh well, I do love me some Hugo.
I’m still waiting for d,d+mk against sagat low tiger shots.
If this move isn’t easy to use against low tiger shot we might have found a worse match up than thawk blanka
“My planet needs me” - flies out of the corner
Dhalsim vs Hugo might be the new worse match up ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDGmjOpY0JM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Sims s.mk kills Hugo he can’t even crouch it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1R1iyLjKlo
winning these matchups is gonna feel so rewarding! I’m optimistic though, just need more time with the character
oh yeah at a loktest I noticed Sagats forward roundhouse hits Hugo crouching lol