Akuma FAQs: Quick questions & answers!

Classic Fighting Games Ultra Street Fighter IV
2461

cr.mp, shoryuken, etc.

Asides from delaying the cr.mp, what I like to do is do a short,jab blockstring and walk back to see if they whiff cr.short or throw. Then I just press cr.mp or some other button in range to punish. After you condition them to stop throwing, you can start throwing. :smiley:

2462

Honestly, if you have two bars; jab, jab, very brief pause, DP. Jab jab dp catches crouch tech spammers all day. They will watch on, and either stop mashing it or start looking to make you waste two bars

2463

How do you go about doing cHK from the LK tatsu? Iā€™m pretty much a noob here and I have no idea on how itā€™s supposed to be performed, as just pressing cHK after the LK tatsu doesnā€™t seem to work.

2464

If the sweep isnā€™t coming out at all, you are doing it too soon. If the sweep comes out but doesnā€™t hit, you are doing it too late

Also, not everyone can be Tatsu-swept

2465

Yeah, I know, I was trying it against Cody who Iā€™m pretty sure is susceptible to it. It doesnā€™t have to be plinked or anything, does it?

2466

It helps to plink it.

2467

Is there a reliable way to walk up and cr.mk xx fb without cancelling in to DP?

2468

I do cr.mk then half circle forward instead of quarter to avoid shortcuts, works pretty well for me.

2469

Just tried it, indeed works much better thx. This game is great man, rewarding those who learn to use different inputs with different possibilities hehe. With this technique I can finally put offensive pressure with cr.mk lol.

2470

When using air fireballs to get in on an opponent, should they be be done in the middle of the jump or just before your land?

2471

Just before you land. Just be wary of getting anti aired and having your fireballs stuffed.

2472

so does anybody else get swept out of akumaā€™s focus attack? if so can you explain why?

2473

You probably got hit once already. The focus attack only has 1 super armor, so if they hit you with something (like a cr.lp) first, their sweep will hit like normally and cause an untechable knockdown.

2474

Possible scenarioā€™s:

  • You got hit by a reversal. Specials used as a Reversals (when you recover from knockdown/hitstun/blockstun) are armour-breaking.
  • You got hit by a move that has armour-breaking properties on itā€™s own (Akumaā€™s DF Palm for example).
  • You got hit twice, knocking you out of your focus.
  • You got hit by a command throw. Some throws look like hitā€™s, but are actually throws, so it may seem like you got hit.
  • You got hit JUST as you let go of your focus, which will strip you of any armour and turn it into a regular attack. Only FA lv3 can absorb a hit DURING itā€™s attack.

Thatā€™s all that I can think of.

2475

guys,

whats a good way to beat people who does focus crouch tech? as in techs with c.lk,lp,mk.mp all 4 button and backdashes

2476

Wait, what the hell is that Ero? They press all 4 buttons?!

2477

First person I saw using such technique was MOV (famous 3S player), I think heā€™s the one who found this OS trick.

Never played anyone who used it though so no idea how to counter it. Wouldnā€™t pressuring him with 2 normals cause the first one to be absorbed but the 2nd one to hit them out as theyā€™re focus backdashing?

i.e:
cr.mp x2
cr.mp, cr.mk
cr.mp, st.hp (far version might come out as they backdash)
cr.lp, st.hp

ā€¦etc

2478

i lost to mov in tournament doing this. canā€™t frame trap him or grab him much. and lately is the newest thing going on with everyone in my area doing this more and more often.

just need to know how to start countering it, before it gets troublesome.

if thereā€™s no gab continue blocking.
if thereā€™s a little gab backdashes.
cr.mp, st hp will probably hit them but they will be hit airborne and escape with less trouble. hence not very effective.
was thinking abt c.mp and delay s.hk might hit, but it will really change my thought process like i actually change my whole frame trap just to counter this tech.

i guess atm iā€™ll just have to see whats going on and counter it if opponent are actually doing it by using a scrub trick such as walk up and grab/ far s.hk

2479

Anyone use DF slide as part of their vortex? Iā€™ve noticed it works nicely on people who abuse back dashes. Any additional strategies of when it should be implemented?

2480

If they abuse backdashes, you can DF Palm OS Sweep. Not only youā€™ll cover two options, but the thing wonā€™t be mad unsafe as the slide.

Speaking about it: was messing some time ago in training, if you make it hit with very very tip (and itā€™s not that easy) even Ryuā€™s Sweep canā€™t punish that (heā€™ll still be able to Super your face, but oneā€™d have to be mad to tried that against a Ryu with Super).

The thing is itā€™d require a setup which creates max space between you and the target, but you opponent should not move forward or youā€™ll get raped. But if you can set up something like this, you can pretty much forget about the horrible slide and go for the ā€˜standardā€™ vortex which is > 9000 times better.

Anyway, I like to use it from huge distance like once every 30 matches. Surprisingly enough it hits like 80 % of the time, and even when they block theyā€™re like ā€œwhat just happened? Akuma has a slide?ā€ lol