I’m just wondering about what benefits there are in K-Groove for Akuma? Personally, the turn on for me is the 35% power boost. But I find it difficult to Just Defend, because I tend to play Akuma as a rush-down. So I’m just wondering about anyone’s thoughts/past experience on the subject.
Thanks.
Outrageous mixups
raging demon setups, and traps (mostly traps)
Haha, I like how the two people that posted about K-Akuma are from the place where I tried to perfect him (CSULB). But alas, I traded in K-Akuma for a more superior K-Morrigan (IMO).
But check out the Wiki, I put some K-Akuma info into it.
The benifit K has is that the defense boost really helps akuma because of his low life. As well, you can’t really waste meter on a Raging Demon like you would in N/C/etc, because it’s going away anyway. The downfall is once people know its coming… you’re hard pressed to land it. The benifit is when they think you’re going to do it all the time, you get free bnb combos when they wake up-> jump to avoid the demon.
JD doesn’t hurt rushdown, in fact it can cover you in some places since you can JD one frame earlier than you can block. Plus, you can rush in and Jd some laggy attack that would normally push you out, and instead punish them. It also gives you a bit of a fallback plan in jump->JD as long as its not abused.
Haha, I was just thinking of picking him up too, I was tinkering with him a bit. His bnb combo is something like c.lk x2 l.hurricane kick x2 or something?
I usually do c.lk, lk hk, juggle dp (lp)
or c.lp, m.mk, mk hk, juggle dp(lp)
A couple of different variations he has on these