st. mk could always be used as anti air, the close and the far one. Timing was difficult, very range dependent. in general low strong is better.
Overhead is a high level strat for high level competition. You cant just throw it out, must be set up so that its hitting just as opponent is getting up. Im assumimng the guy ragging on the overhead simply has no idea how to use it. I’m a damn good player (lots of hubris here), and I’m honostly not the best at using it, and even my chump setups still work on decent players. I would say use of overhead is going to be the new tactic that separates the new retards from the die hard veterans, using all of blanka tools (previously, the separator was ability to do jab into fp elec).
Any move that links into ultra that leads to ~45% dmg is not bad, regardless of slow startup.
Thats my point though, that the overhead, if setup correctly is and should be extremely useful. Opens the opponent up to a whole high low mixup, and throws become that much more effective as well. I havent been able to play alot recently, and the first thing im going to do is refine my overhead game. It seems pretty easy to use after forward throw, but after low rh is what im really concerned about.
oh, the sweep mixup is easy, you just dash forward and overhead. you can rockcrusher and go low or kara throw, block, or just do other stuff. It’s probably the simplest setup.
I agree completely with that setup. Unfortunately, either I suck (havent practiced too much as of late), or its extremely difficult, but after sweep, dash, overhead, i more often than not dont have charge. so I have to delay slightly the startup of the overhead, but then the problem is that its not as meaty, and is easier for opponent to defend against.
This is likely wrong thread for this discussion, but fuk it, its 1am, dissertation due by end of weekend, brain no work.
It is meaty if done properly, and you just need to get your charge faster. Overhead is so so slow you can get a full charge without prebuffering. You can do overhead -> upball for instance
Finally landing Ovehead to U1 with this setup, and also Far Jab xx HP Ball… people don’t know what is this move ah ah, Blanka overhead whaaaaat ??? Just hilarious, they never blocked high, even decent players.
However, i can’t link the Overhead with the sweep on meaty, any tips, you can do it ?
Okay number one c.MK was not nerfed…it was not changed at all. Two, how on earth would you rate 2012 Blanka LOWER than AE Blanka? Dude he can finally do safe ball combos which is what people have wanted forever, not to mention the other buffs. The only buff he got in AE was better EX electricity, which nobody uses, still.