Out of all of Vega’s bad match-ups, Blanka is like his worst. It is a really tedious match for both characters, though. A lot of sitting on down back with life leads. The thing that really puts it in Blanka’s favor, though, is that if Vega gets the life lead, Blanka has a lot more ways of getting in and chipping away to get it back, whereas the other way around, if Blanka decides to just sit on the life lead, his defense is much better and there’s really not much Vega can do to get it back without taking large risks of losing even more.
Actually, the only matchup worse for Vega than Blanka might by Rufus. Turtle and rushdown styles both problems, go figure.
Trying not to derail this thread any further, but I don’t understand why you think you’re hot shit. Have you actually cone to any London tournaments? Genuinely curious.
People overestimate Blanka, the fact that his reversal is punishable on hit really hurts his close range defense.
And no, as of yet I’ve not attended any tournaments but I intend to as soon as my university course is over. I’ve seriously been locked out by coursework rushdown for literally months on end. I’m still in blockstun.
If there is an advantage, it’s very slight. The Japanese Wiki recently downgraded the 7:3 to 6:4, probably after Zangitan made the match look free for Gief.
I hope they listen to the good players sir. IMO Blanka is the 4th worst in sf4. The good thing is you can still win with him, but the facts remain that he has to many horrible match ups in sf4 to be even called mid tier. He is top of the bottom tier at best. The good thing about sf4 is most players can win against any character if the are good enough, but it’s always an uphill battle when fighting top tier characters with top tier players playing against you while you use blanka. Blanka needs buff’s imo. Anyone that wants blanka nerfed either doesn’t know how to play against blanka or are scrubs that run into random blanka balls.:rolleyes:
Any decent player of sf4 can see blanka is lacking in so many area’s in sf4. His offense is almost 80% gimmicks. They shorten the range on his normal attacks and gave him a weak throw. Blanka was all about his footies with great range/priority on his normals attacks and his throws. Now he’s 90% gimmicks in sf4. CvS2 and ex2 were the best blanka ever made. I know they can make blanka better in ssf4, but I doubt they will. Blanka is seen as a joke character. With dan being he’s old school rival I can’t see them making him top tier in ssf4. I just want the improvements I listed earlier in this thread added to blanka in ssf4 so he can compete better. I’m tired of the uphill battle on most tournament matches I play.
I can only hope capcom knows who are asking for things that are fair and those that are just spaming/trolling this thread. Hopefully they won’t listen to the trolls.:wonder:
why should his damage be less on his ultra? There is no good use for it beside doing a 1 frame link. Other than that it’s not a reliable ultra to use and only SCRUBS get hit by it more than once in a tournament setting. It’s easy to block and you can see it coming a mile away. Like seriously why should his ultra damage be reduced? I hate when people with limited skill comment on characters they don’t play with.
Just because you get caught by his ultra doesn’t mean most of the good players do. His ultra has no good use beside gimmick 50/50 crossup crap. gtfo with nerfing anything on blanka as he is made right now. He’s already to weak as it is damnit! If you weaken the damage on his ultra then just take him out of the game, because he will have NOTHING good about him in the game period. Yes he can win against top tier if played correctly, but it’s always an up hill battle imo. Anyone talking about nerfing anything on blanka in ssf4 doesn’t know how to play sf4 imo and opinions are not valid imo. Just go back to the seth thread or whatever character you play with thread and stay out of here please.
Blanka won’t get his needed buffs. You’ll be suprised about the amount of people who think Blanka is one of the strongest characters in this game, it’s rediculous… Just go on Youtube (where 80% of the people are idiots anyway), say ‘Blanka’ and ‘weak’ in one sentence, and you’ll instantly get 100 messages saying you have no idea what you’re talking about. The amount of stupid players is too big i’m afraid…
Wow Shin, take it easy. Truth is, i think every Ultra should be nerfed as they ALL do too much dmg. I’m not saying I get constantly caught in it, or that it’s hard to block low then high, I have no problem with that shit. I just think the damage it does is a bit ridiculous, comparing to most of the other Ultras in the game.
Then again, most of us (read: me) don’t play higher level players like you do, so you probably feel he needs that huge damage…
You could say this about any character actually and you’d have all the mainers of that character agree… So I guess you have the homefield advantage in this discussion.
blankas ultra has like zero reliable setups. thus big damage. like akuma.
IMO a character that goes even with most, gets destroyed by others, and has slight advantages over some, dosent need things taken away.
i dont think he needs a whole hell of a lot of help tho. just small tweaks. for one, his specials should not be punnishable on hit unless you get him cornered. also less recovery on his crouch fierce. 30+ total frames for a “quick” characters normals is excessive. just those two would help out a bunch in sf4.
if he got those +whatever he needs to keep up with the new stuff everyone else gets, he will be ok
His normals need a buff for sure, with that I agree, and i think that it’s retarded that some of his specials are punishable on hit by some characters. Overall, he’s a mid tier character, but his gimmick-centric game screws some of the lower tiers.
I’m convinced that crounching with d+3P and being able to walk slowly poses an awesome improvement for Blanka, so you can avoid quick aproaches as teleportations or Kara Cancel into Tiger Knee by walking back and avoid slow fireballs as jab Sonic Boom or Hadouken then dash for pressure, without having to lose the down charge or keep it for nothing.
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