It might be possible with ex lariat, I don’t know. But when I asked StormKubo (The Hugo player from this video) about his armor cancel tech 2 weeks ago, he said he used ex meatsquasher. So unless he started using ex lariat now, it is not that.
Also hugo can kara cancel his clap in to ultra throw.
I don’t see how it could be EX MQ though. Armor cancel only works to a higher priority move. So unless they’ve made an exeption for MQ/BB to have less/more input priority than normal 360s/DPs it shouldn’t be possible. But I guess that there is that possibility since he has both HCB, 360, DP and QCF on kicks, which is even worse than Seth’s Punch-special overlap if you ask me, which might mean he needs some adjustments on input priority.
Makes no sense for him to have half circle back input instead of qcb input when he has no QCB or reverse DP + kick inputs whatsoever. No sort of mechanical change there that I can think of. It’s not like he is a charge character where a half circle back input can be used to make sure that a character gives up both down and back charge. It’s not like Evil Ryu where the half circle forward + kick allows him to keep the QCF+Kick fireball fake out. Seems like a legacy thing where they keep an input that perhaps made sense in it’s original game due to some system mechanic, or the input was designed that way to mimic the motion of the character in some respect (like Tiger Knee’s original input which Fei Long and Cammy still use).
It’s HCB because it’s a command grab, and having a rather traditional command grab as a Quarter Circle would feel kinda weird. I think it’s just as simple as that.
for example, cr jab xx LP clab kara cancel to ultra throw?
And if i may add, the range is incredible! I just applied for membership on the site to watch that video, sick stuff! Do you know if Stormkubo has used the kara grab in a game?
You can’t kara from a cancelled-into move. I know that, back in the alpha, you could cancel blocked s.LK into LK MQ if you wanted though (if you delayed the cancel slightly).
