Akuma FAQs: Quick questions & answers!

I don’t think you can to U2 cancel off a c.MP. The thing with st.HP is it creates enough hit stun for the teleport xx U2 to hit.

You can cr.mp xx tele xx U2 and cr.mk xx tele xx U2

It gives you the block in some reversal situations.

Hey guys, I was having a match just now against ken, after a footsie sweep I decided to cross up tarsus and in the end I ate an autocorrect dp, I was sure the timing was right did I miss something?

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x-up tatsu can be beaten by auto corrected DPs, it usually works when the opponent delays the DP a bit.

I see. My bad. :sweat:

cr.mk xx tele xx U2? really…cr.mp into U2 is already strict enough, nearly impossible online too.

I never said it was easy or practical, I said it was possible

wow is that like a 1 frame cause ive tried c.mp tele u2 and it NEVER works :(. I did see it done by fujino though so i know its possible

I see alot of my own style back in your play.
And also my colour ^^.

Try not to let scrubs mess around with you with their scrubby blockstrings.
You had alot of opportunities to break his string with a cr.mp or srk, as he kept walking forward.
Also, don’t assume that people are going to tech your throws.
Alot of your blockstrings couldve ended in a free throw as he wasnt teching, so your frametraps missed the goal.

For the rest, you have a really solid vortex and good footsiegame :).

Hahah that one feels more like a 0.1 frame if you ask me. Every single cancel has to be performed at the very first possible frame, but I pulled it off once or twice.

So far the shortcuts I came up with are df+c.mp, d, df+3P, u, u +3K , which makes it a total of 5 inputs, which you have to perform VERY fast consecutively. But the advantage of being able to land 350+ Damage and an untechable knockdown that also works on crouching characters from cr.lk, cr.lp, cr.mp xx Ultra2 is a great advantage imo. AND the combo costs absolutely 0 meter and doesn’t give your opponent any either.

Anyone got a better/faster shortcut?

Ok so i was watching this

Someone tell me why tokido does what looks like a messed up plink just for a roundhouse motion.
the inputs i see every time he does a roundhouse are

hk mk lk
hk mk

why? and how do you even do that?

Also can palm be used for safejumping 4 frame reversals or was it 5 frame?

That’s not a messed up plink, pretty sure that’s called double plinking, it’s executed like this: mk+hk~lk

Yes it can, it has the same landing recovery frames of a normal jump-in attack. You can try vs Dudley, after forward throw he wakes up a frame slower so x2 dashes, instant mk DF palm will safejump his 4f EX jet upper (don’t activate the palm too early in the air, it has very few active frames).

Whats the point on random roundhouses of doing double plinks???

Sorry if this has been asked before, but what are some of Akuma’s best pokes, and how should I practice using them?

For me I absolutely love cr.mp, on counter hit you can combo into cr.hk which can lead to the vortex starting up. Also st.hk is brilliant but be careful not to use it against characters on who it doesn’t hit twice, they can punish you after the first hit. cr.hk is brilliant during footsies and cr.mk is also great. Other than that I don’t really know what else he has. Oh, and also I crouch tech with mp so it looks like this (lp,mp,lk), that way you can tech and also land a cr.mp at times, oh and be sure not to crouch tech mash, it’ll take a few games playing against people who blow up crouch-tech mashers to get you out of that habit (it certainly did for me :D) but yeah, that’s all I can think of.

WTFFF how come I didn’t know that this entire time!
Thank you sir. I need to come across more useful OS’s like these.

Question. IF you plink grab into a crouching normal. like cr.mp so the input comes out like this:

lp mp lk
lk lp

does that give you more of a chance of teching grabs? cr.lk still comes out if you do it right so its possible to combo after.

Um, I don’t think so? I’m like 99% sure it doesn’t make a difference, but I may be wrong. And honestly, if you crouch tech CORRECTLY, you will hardly get grabbed, no joke, It is one of the most useful things in the history of ever.

I always thought it did because of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCP1sVYUxGQ

I never use it though, just not used to do the plink, I’ve read some comments around here that the info in that video isn’t entirely correct so take it with a grain of salt.

I’ve never seen any pro use it. I doubt it works though?