I know Gouken doesn’t have the best anti-airs but I’m really frustrated at them and I think I need to ask how to deal with it. People jump in at me more or less for free, especially in that “ambiguous” area right above me, even if I’m pretty sure they’re going to land in front. It’s most noticeable with Dee Jay, since his cross-ups are such an important part of his character. There doesn’t seem to be a way to really uh, hit them. EX Tatsu, Light Tatsu, c.MK and c.HP whiff (their hitboxes are too diagonal to cover this angle). If I predict it, I can sometimes get a jb.HK or Kongo, but of course doing this repeatedly can make me predictable or put me into the corner.
I get beaten a lot by very, very bad players who just jump at/over me over and over again mixing up between grab and other random garbage and it is immensely frustrating. It isn’t that I don’t predict the jump, it’s just that I feel like I have no tools to deal with it. There’s a range, like:
or about there, where if Ryu jumps forward, my only option seems to be to block, or Kongo. Kongo can work but there are of course inherent risks (been j.MP’d a few times for that, for example). jb.HK is of course very good, but it can whiff and the reward isn’t very substantial since they can get up before you can really set anything up, and there’s a chance you’re giving up a lot of space.
The thing that annoys me the most is how much I have to consider to beat this very simple thing they’re doing. If I were Ryu I could just uppercut, lol.
Thanks in advance.