Very decent matches. Im no pro or anything so what I say could be wrong but I’d like to contribute and see if tehre is something I should know myself also :D.
Break the habit of 3 cr.lp, cr.lk xx headbutt/dash punch. Damage scaling is just so bad. Also it does not work on everyone unless you go in deep. Try and limit it to 2x cr.lp then whatever afterwards. .
Make use all his normals. Not a big deal but you hardly used far standing jab and opted for crouching jabs instead. Try use it to combo into a rush upper loop or into a dash punch. Same goes for cr.mk and st.mk.
Also Balrog has decent dash speed so bait more with back dashes but dont be too obvious with it :). After a knock down after a untechable knock down, use his forward dash to push the “corspe” towards the corner in an attempt make your opponent have space to work with. Also dont be afraid to drop your charge. I noticed in your ibuki matches. The very first round you walked forward and applied just the right amount of pressure. After that round it seems like you relied more on your charges. I would say something about the viper match but I dont personally have much experience against vipers
My Boxer has taken a back seat for some months for Makoto.Could use some critiques on any bad habits or dumb choices I might have made.I know one of the worst habits I have is meter management.I end up wasting it in some situations when I didn’t need to without realizing it :shake:
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You hit the first nail right on the head, lots of meter burned for no reason.
Against Blanka you need to remember that cr lk xx headbutt basically never works, it needs to be canceled from a cr mp or it will whiff in almost every circumstance. I imagine you’re already punching yourself over this one…
The “rainbow ball” that he’s using to cross you up sometimes is not armor breaking. I noticed you focused it in your first round, if you can see the direction it’s landing on it can be a free L3 focus attack.
Against a deep slide attack from Blanka you can reversal Ultra I’m pretty sure (feel free to correct me, haven’t played this match in a while). Not really applicable to that match apart from the final hit that you won with.
You’ve got alot of random headbutts against the Ryu player in the second video, never a good idea.
Was looking good until I realised after 10-seconds that you use specials mostly for movement rather than just giving up your charge and walking forward. You only seemed to walk forward when being pelted at fullscreen from hadokens and even then you where making your upcoming TAP attempt very obvious with the downfierce (You can press that during a block or a neutral jump/forward jump over a fireball to make it less obvious) but luckily for you that Ryu didn’t really seem to realise it.
JabShortHeadbutt against someone who is blocking needs to be worked on (ie. hitconfirm etc) we’re all guilty of it at times or dropping combo’s is usually the only excuse. If someone is blocking, do not try to end it on a headbutt or you will eat big damage. Less random headbutts overall, too.
In Round 1 you would have won the round if you AA’d that jumpin with a downfierce but instead you stayed crouched and ate the punch and took the KO. Either that Super through fireball was planned (Kudos) or you threw it out and got lucky against a Ryu who shouldn’t be throwing those hadokens so close to a charged Balrog!
Wasting EX meter to close the distance from Mid/Fullscreen with Uppers isn’t going to work against better players - They will neutral jump into combo or just plain SRK or Ultra your face.
Just back from SVB. Got my ass handed to me by Dafro and learned a few things too :). I also played a few matches with Kayane! Wanna guess how that went lol. I’ll try and get my mate to post up the video soon
They were mirrors but didnt record them. Tbh They would not be worth watching even if I did He did some stuff Ive never seen in a rog mirror so im guna go into the training room later and try some stuff out
0:16 not a bad choice trying to focus the first wall dive… most online vegas suck at getting the izuna.
0:27 this vega seems to love the crossup ex sky claw… i’m pretty sure you know how to deal with this… pretty much whenever a vega towards your wall always block back and then immediately forward in case it’s a ex sky claw… they’re hella unsafe on block so you can punish hard
0:31 good read on the impatient wake up scarlet terror, not sure why you tried to punish with cr.hp
0:39 first round this vega played pretty quickly and gimmicky… this vega doesn’t appear to have footsies and seems impatient. he just outguessed you a lot and it’s just too bad you didn’t get a chance to jump in and corner him at all.
0:52 good read on his impatient st. hk … you missed a link but it’s xbl lag so whatev’s lol. at least the vega didn’t give you a maximum punish.
0:57, 1:03 he’s guessing right with his air to air wall dives. you might have beaten these air to air if you jumped sooner or used another normal… j.mk?
1:12 you finally got him in the corner! vega with no ultra II pretty much dies in the corner against balrog unless you give him a chance to escape…
1:14 i know you balrogs love building bar after your ultra, but by doing your TAP and rush punch here placed you in a bad position… you should have jumped in on this helpless wake up vega…
1:22, 1:25 more guessing right with his wall dives.
1:31… LUCKY ASS ultra 1… you read it right in that this vega’s hella impatient and just went for a random ultra the first chance he had some breathing room, if you did your headbutt a couple frames earlier you would have stopped his ultra attempt and had knocked down in the corner with no bars or ultra and you probably would have taken the round…
2 videos of a tournament that went down this weekend. I wasn’t playing my best because I was playing on different setups all day long and I’ve never been on the deciding spots games (placed 3rd) so I was a bit nervous, so I dropped easy combos, missed ultras after juggles and really paniced sometimes and did stupid HB and OH.
Anyway here are the videos and I would appreciate if you guys could critique.
The Ryu player is a friend on mine whom I play all the time. I sent him to loosers and then he beat me in the loosers finals. My knowledge on the Gen matchup is lacking and when we play I have a really hard time until I start reading him a bit and know what to punish but in best of 3 format I don’t have enough time to adapt.
one thing i noticed is that you make it extremely obvious when you’re about to rush punch - you walk backwards for a second and then rush. anyone who can see that coming is just going to neutral jump and full punish you for it
Looking back at it I can see a few of my problems…
Not enough variety
no pressure after untechable knockdowns
Too much crouching/down back
a few weird jump ins
Aaaaaand around 3:12 I shoulda canceled that absorbed upper into Super.
but I’d like to contribute and see if tehre is something I should know myself also :D.