Ok i made playlists for each matchup.
Fei Long
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
Chun Li
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
Abel
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
Balrog
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DAB9AE087310D35A
The balrog videos are still uploading so they will be populated soon.
Ibuki
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=424AB1286BBFC803
ibuki vids still uploading
Gen
I only have one gen video recently vs Yeb.
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This really is the best illustration of the ball nerf shown yet. Against Ken, and many others, close horizontal balls were a necessary long range poke/zoning tool, much like ryu’s cr. mk. With that gone, this matchup has shifted dramatically. Can’t fault playerjun for playing it like he did though - he played the matchup right. Does make me sad though…I really wish if they had to nerf ball, they just made it a counterhit if hit during roll.
Does anyone remember SF2 WW for SNES? When Blanka got shoryu’d out of ball in that game, he lost 50%!
it wasn’t just NES that’s how it was in arcade 
shoryu on honda headbutt also did 50%
Casual matches in AE:
[media=youtube]AP2_bZU8l7g[/media] vs dudley
[media=youtube]vW1UNDAWhTM[/media] vs ibuki
[media=youtube]jXulDw-5OEE[/media] vs honda
[media=youtube]_u04R761mb0[/media] vs honda
[media=youtube]Ebqypg7AdT4[/media] vs deejay
looks like almost all matchups become the typical boxer,cammy like fights. do a roll and you lose.
but that’s what i was right from the beginning when the first information about the nerfed ball showed up.
in ae blanka is bottom tier!!!
as far as the match is concerned
Round 1 was pretty much played perfectly on both sides but tsrai choked in the end by doing jab into ball knowing how bad it is now (we’re all gonna take some getting used to that) he also got baited into ex ball, which cost him the match since that shit got dped to the next dimension.
round 2 ken held that shit down like he’s supposed to and tsrai couldn’t open him up
round 3 gimmicky shit and panicked mashing was all getting punished. ken baited an ultra but tried to punish too early and and got hit. tsrai now has him mindfucked and starts to close the gap but chokes to a kara grab at the end. Almost won too, and what sucks even more is that in round 1 and most of 2 he was teching all those grabs like a ninja.
ken-blanka wasn’t as bad in SSFIV because you could use blockstring into ball to create space again and also get in a little chip, seems like that isn’t a completely viable strategy anymore.
On another note however, this is the first match I’ve ever seen of TSRAI ever playing somebody good. He certainly is not looking like some untouchable godly blanka to me right now which is in a way good. More proof that video of you raping random people online doesn’t mean shit. Looking forward to see what blankas establish themselves at the top in the coming months hope TSRAI can hold it down.
non edit edit: just remembered the daigo-tsrai match, that was pretty good.
real edit edit: that ken player was good and ken’s buffs are gonna make that character shine a bit more.
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Glad to see the turtle boxer match is still as retarded as ever…
Nishikan kept messing up his OS after b.throw. He got a counterhit slide out of it once by, but he should probably use use st.mp because it’s much harder to mess up IMO.
I thought nishikin did a great job in the three matches that were just posted from that tourney.
He straight up wrecked that viper and sagat, short short into ultra in a tourney, wtf?
The balrog match seemed like he was a tad rusty. He deffinately did setups i wouldnt have done. Waaaayy to much hopping against balrog, not enough wakeup electricity when balrog was on the ground. Never did standing mp either. AND HE STILL WON THE SECOND ROUND.
I am not losing hope for blanka in AE, fucking rainbow roll is godlike
Nishikin is easily the most impressive Blanka of the moment.
I love his double crossup rainbow roll to land right in front of viper then low short low short stand jab ball
rainbow roll seems like it will take awhile for people to adjust to, and if used right, it might not be possible to adjust to it.
Blanka in AE = most of his bad matches were nerfed, and blanka is I think overall a better character due to ex elec. Balls nerf meanas nothing to me as balling randomly is stupid anyway.
Unknown Blanka vs YHC Mochi:
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I like this match even though Blanka lost. Dunno why he was doing ball combos vs Sim though.
nishikin played absolutely insane vs one of the best japanese balrogs.
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I think I’ve missed something…
I meant to say ex elec amd rainbow roll, but i was typing too quick. In other words, blankas buffs to ex elec and raimbow roll, minus the nerf to ball, still overall makes him a better character (obviously i havent played game yet, my personal gut feeling). And seeing how nishikin was for the most part able to use hop effrctively, whatever nerf may have occurred to it seems not that important. Plus since many of his bad matchups r a little easier if just bc many of his bad mathups had those characters nerfrd, i think blankas strategic position is pretty good in AE. And lets not forget he is reportedly pretty good against the twins, which i think is pure gold.
For those of you just noticing Nishikin, besides being one of the better (maybe even best) Blanka toward the end of SF4 arcade, he was a PSN player with over 6,000 PP. Gotokaffy was another PSN Blanka with over 6,000 PP. I considered both of their games better then TSRAI, since TSRAI goes for too many gimmicks/hard combos. How does that translate to AE? Nishikin is the top Blanka, but he doesn’t even have MASTER status <sadface>
lakercrono, you right about that with t-srai. though, that’s what made his matches so interesting. he helped to get some of the haters of our backs as he showed that blanka isn’t only rolls like sooo many believe. he’s also a very aggressive blanka player which i really like. yes, turtleling is sometimes necessary but i can’t stand it. probably one of the reasons i loose a lot: i have no patience
lot of factors involved when you measure PP ranking.
I saw more top japanese players on xbox so that could mean PSN is easier to stay ranked high. T SRAI is obviously a strong player but to rank one higher then the other is difficult. I will take Nishikin over a lot of blankas though because he’s played him since vanilla and done REALLY well with him.
What is difficult with blanka is that he is a straight zoning/spacing/foots character. So it is hard to see how good someone is since that’s the hardest thing to interpret in a video.
I think another reason nishikin isn’t really high up is because he has to fight vs fei/cammy/sagat/balrog which aren’t exactly super easy matchups for him even in AE. In vanilla i dont’ think we had a blanka in the top 50 for bp? So having one blanka top 25 is fine by me.
My point by mentioning PP is that they were real good and him being better than TSRAI is just my opinion (mainly due to better strategy/less risks - TSRAI undoubtedly has the sickest execution I’ve ever seen but even he misses his fair share of 1-framers).
As to Blanka’s current ranking, it looks like on the AE BP chart, there isn’t a Blanka in the top 25, and not even in the top 50 (maybe not even top 100 anymore).
I know the ball discussion has been beaten to death, but one thing to consider is that FP Blanka ball takes off 20 more dmg than jab, not to mention jab is so damn slow that you can react to it pretty easily. With so many 1-frame combos, and with electricity range pretty crappy, if one does a simple cr mk -> s. lp -> ball combo, if they miss the 1 framer to s.lp, I doubt they would have the mindset to not ball. So while one would normally FP ball, you may want to Jab ball now and lose that damage. Sure, ball was punishable by a good portion of the cast before, but now, it is punishable by everyone (even w/o meter), both more easily, and for likely greater damaging combos. Also, one could argue that you should just execute better then, but with 1-framers, probability should be taken into account of strategy.
I don’t ball spam by any means, and I barely even play this game anymore, so I really shouldn’t care, but that ball nerf really annoys me :mad: