Gonna be honest boys, forget V-Trigger exists.
V-Reversal is by far one of Alex’s strongest tools.
V-Reversal those Ex-Fireballs. They have 24 frames of recovery and our V-Reversal is 23 frames. You then get a meaty set up since her only wake up doesn’t have armour until the 3rd frame. Worst case it’s delayed and they block it which results in being -2 but at least they’ve burned a bar.
I’ve had moderate success in punishing her normal fireballs in mid to far range with the Superman but I wouldn’t rely on it.
So we agree that an anti pressure tool that’s safe on block and leaves you at +27 if it hits is pretty good then? xD
I guess we should work on a list of V-Reverseable stuff as well as the Power Bomb punishes that @iGuile suggested.
Need to make time for games between all this lab work. xD
I NEVER SAID IT WAS BAD MR.ZACHARA! >:c
Yeah, getting free pressure from our v-reversal is…insanely good, I’ve pretty much accepted the fact I’m VERY rarely going to be using V-Trigger now, V-Reversal is way too crucial to surviving against certain characters - Cammy, Chun, Bison…just stopping their buttons and flipping the match on it’s head instantly.
About to cap off my night, think I’m around 30-3 in casuals tonight. I’ve really molded to this character quite well.
I’m surprised that I feel pretty comfortable against karin for the most part
I actually think Alex beats Karin, if only slightly
apparntly u can direct your cr. hp this was mentioned earlier but my friend says there’s at least 3 versions.
We have our first tier list, no alex, courtesty of vesper:
Switch Birdie and Cammy and I agree. Cammy deserves that centre spot, not Birdie.
Alex IMO should go inbetween Ken and Necalli, underneath Bison.
you’ve made up your mind about alex already? o-0
He’s not worse than Gief/Rashid/Laura/FANG I can tell you that much confidently. He isn’t sitting as pretty as Birdie is, so he shouldn’t be higher than him, Mika is a sink or swim character, I don’t think she’s top 5. I think Alex sits perfectly next to Ken on a tier list. He isn’t hitting the high end of a tier list any time soon with his obvious weaknesses. He’s mid-low IMO, but he can still take a major if someone makes his tools work properly, it will just be hard to do.
Alex is pretty strong, all his v stuff is enough to give him the adv to win the matchup, that’s some really explosive turnaround power not a lot of characters have.
Ok thanks. Yeah v reversal is a great option too
How are you dealing with Karins? St lp doesnt stop them from jumping at me and I dont know how to deal with their cross ups
depends if she’s gimmicky karin or not. Her rekkas aren’t un-interruptable, can even powerbomb if she’s greedy enough
I think if sledge hammer could be dash canceled itd be much better. Being able to fake people out with sledge then dash in powerbomb would be nice. But it seems like ill have to put it on the back burner except for combos.
Learn when to press a button vs. her and do it every time to force respect. Half of her pressure is at least -2 or worse unless she’s respecting you and playing footsies which is very rare online. Mix in an EX knee into your anti-air game whenever possible and do the dash forward > st.mp to force her to block, if she eats a counter hit I promise you she’ll either be dead or will be too scared to jump again. At that point your life lead should be significant anyway.
Always watch out for random overheads fullscreen because that’s really fucking annoying. She’s -4 at best from the fierce version so depending on how far the crazy bitch flew change your punish - light version is punished by st.mp xx l.elbow, medium version is punished by st.lk xx ex chop and fierce version is st.lp xx ex chop
Apart from that, you can beat Karin in neutral. cr.mp and st.mk contend very well with her buttons, st.mk shuts down her cr.mk
that’d make alex a SFIV character, which would indeed make him more powerful. But I have a feeling we’re not getting SFIV characters in SFV…
Fuck, i’ve been so busy with work that I can finally sit down and play again…and now I’m just overwhelmed with all this alex info. I seriously don’t even know where to begin.
Probably the hardest working sub-forum atm, got scientists up in the labs working on this character
Lol…I just had the most demoralizing loss ever. Two sets against a nash who just ran away the entire match. Like, what do you even do when this happens. Cornering yourself doesn’t matter for shit when you can spam sonic boom all day and then just teleport out, or just jump out, not like we have anti airs or anything.