Akuma Combos, Strategies, and Match-ups!

Against Dudley you can hit him after a throw with it.

assuming he doesnt tech roll and its pretty much unconfirmable too.

I’m aware but I wouldn’t consider that a huge benefit.

Any new info guys?

Bread goes well with butter FYI

Perhaps:

Yesterday I did a kara UOH by accident (something 'Naz has stated doing as well). After extensive practice it seems that it’s possible by pressing forward slightly and releasing while pressing mp+mk. It’s not possible to activate a Zugai Husatsu (f+mp) without pressing forward and it’s not possible to active a UOH while pressing forward so there needs to be a frame in with you are pressing both f and mp+mk.

I’ve tried simply pressing forward for as short as humanly possible and simple mashing mp+mk and that’s had some effectiveness. I’ve only been practicing for about one day and I’m at about 40%. You can get some extremely fierce range off of this. Nothing outside of a fireball even comes close to hitting your opponent the way this kara UOH can. And if your opponent’s crouching the distance is it’ll is just fucking ridiculous. Very scary tactic.

help

I had difficulty combining SAs in combos.

It’s kind of hard to help you make it so fucking vague.

I might have forget to tell you guys this but HK kara demons don’t work in arcade and that’s probably why you don’t ever see the japanese use them.

Yes they do.

Not true, put the CPU Dudley on random tech roll and see for yourself, anyone can learn this confirm in like 5 min. The real issue is who the hell wouldn’t quick roll?

Well they dont work on MAME and that is supposedly arcade perfect…

I got both low roundhouse and low forward karas to work on arcade, maybe it’s newtype you’re using? Although i don’t see why that would stop it from working. It’s the same type of cancel as anything else, if the command overhead karas then logically any other ground normal will kara into demon, in fact i think all ground specials (fireballs, first 2 hits of hp srk, the first hit of mk/hk tatsu) cancel as well. I often use hp srk xx deamon as anti air if i have full meter and they parry the first 2 hits (only against players that know how to deal with srk xx sa1 anti air mixups).

can KKZ be canceled from hp red fireball??

I don’t think…
That would be the best cheap damage option in the game even without taunt before…

HK kara DOES work on arcade - I’ve done it myself and there’s even a match vid where I do it.

Mame IS NOT arcade perfect. I don’t care who the hell told you. I play arcade 95% of the time with the other 4% being PS2/XBOX and 1% being Mame. PS2/XBOX just feels different altogether. Mame feels like the arcade, but still different.

Anyways, that wasnt an answer to your question :bgrin: HK kara works on Mame as well - I think your stick and converter arent very friendly with your PC/USB ports. I had the same issue with kara throws, let alone kara demons. Steps to take:

  1. Fix your USB polling rates. When I first used mame someone gave me a program to do this - greatly reduces input lag. But input lag is still there (FUCK WHAT ANYONE ELSE SAYS)

  2. Make sure your stick is based on a PS1 pcb, NOT ps2 (I still cant really use my HORI on Mame)

  3. Get a good converter.

  1. This is true it wont fully solve the problem of input lag, but it’ll help
  2. I’ve been hearing the PS1 DualShock is best, because its most compatible with all converters etc.

ps: what’s your take on nebula’s cps3 emulator? I’ve heard It has a less input lag than MAME.

Nice guide pal.

Questions:
1- What is akuma’s best poke, or even better, gimme a list of USABLE pokes
2- Tips vs ken
3- Whats the safest way to start off a match?
4- Where does Akuma’s c.mk fall in comparison to Sean/Ryu/Ken in terms of speed.
5- If any, when’s a good time to use c.hk
6- Whens the best time to build meter with mp/c.mp?
7- I see ppl dash then c.mk or c.lk or kara-throw really quick is this just fast hards or a special technique.
8- General uses for back dash.
9- Non Kara demon setups

I found (after incredible search effort) a great topic on an exotic forum, maybe it can help you for some of your questions: http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=124993