Indeed it does seem like a nerf and a completely unnecessary change. It’s not like coward crouch is even that good! Still would like to know if anyone can confirm my info though.
Cool… the new ultra… yes… say bye bye to ultra 1…
Root for Blanka~~
I would imagine, without the nerf, blanka would be impossible to tiger shot spam full screen with blankas ultra 2? Capcom loves Sagat apparently. I think if this is true, it is a silly change but I can live with it if his other moves have some sort of buffs.
Are you seriuos!!!..why are they removing that!!!
his new ultra looks pretty slow and does shit damage, his balls aren’t safe and his walk speed isn’t faster by a significant amount. His cr.hp does look a bit better though. thats what it looks like to me. i’ll have to play it but i think blanka will still be shit.
You know I didnt think blanka was low teir until i started playing good people and realize that in a lot of situations i cant do anything.
As for the new ultra, it does look like it does crap damage but has a lot of versitility. I mean even though people were playin the actual game…it doesnt mean that they are done with him.
The game doesnt come out for months…they is still hope for good changes… right?
I dont want to ditch blanka cause he is one of my favs…but i may have too with dee jay coming
Seth Killian said that this is the build from a whil back. He said that they have made many tweaks sense. He also said the game is basically the same as SF4 with new ultras and characters.
So there is still hope for Blanka.
He’s decent, but not great. IIRC…I don’t think one Blanka has broken top 8 at any major and EVO 09’ we saw maybe one squeak out of pools and into the top 16…off the top of my head here. If there was one dominating a major somewhere, correct me. I’d really like to know. Mullah maybe out in Europe? Otherwise, I just don’t see him pushing through like Rufus/Sagat/Boxer/Ryu/Akuma/Dictator. Maybe it’s just the player base? shrug I get the feeling he is in the same “rock n’ a hard spot” Ken/Chun are sitting at. Has some good tools, but just not enough to get over the top tier hump. This is all paper talk though.
…and yeah. Altering Coward Crouch to take something away seems strange. It may have not been an issue in SF4, but it may have been an issue with the buffs he received in SSF4? Theory Fighter in the house.
I believe Demon Hyo made it to top 8 at NEC, or it might’ve been SB4. Memory’s a little foggy, though.
Edit: Just looked, and apparently he made 13th at SB4 and tied for 5th at NEC with 3 other people.
Exactly why you shouldnt read a tier list that doesnt matter, probably the Eventhubs one, and come in here saying he’s a top 5 character. Blanka in his current state, is pretty much ass. He has no real comeback potential besides random ultra, his only ultra links are pretty hard and non practical, and he simply is no where near his top form in other games.
And to answer some questions:
No, EX Ball does not knock down, but Seth made it really clear to me that the game wasnt even near finished when it came to tweaks to the old characters, and to expect a lot more before the final product is shipped.
I didnt notice elec pushing people back more. I was playing against one of my fellow Vegas buddies, Josh, and he was playing Cody. I was able to lp xx elec take a SLIGHT step forward, and do it again with no problems, but then again from what people have been telling me, they notice Cody has a pretty big hitbox on him, so maybe that was why.
Only time I messed around with Coward Crouch was when playing against Watson’s Sagat on the stream. I didnt even attempt to cancel it into anything, I was just simply ducking his fireballs.
And about Blanka walk speed. Yea, the game speed overall is faster, but not to the point where it would make walk speeds seems 2x faster than they were. I play A LOT of original SF4 characters last night, and the only one that even felt faster was Blanka. Ryu walk speed pretty much felt the same, in the context of the game. For example, I was easily bullying the shit out of Watson’s Chun Li just by simply walking forward. Every time he tried to keep me away with a lp fireball, I was back in his face before he even got it out, and was able to punish the fireball by either poking him out of it with s. and cr. hp, or jump over it. And this is Mike Watson, so it’s not like his zoning sucks, it was just that Blanka was fast enough to gain ground on Chun while she was throwing out the fireball. Anyone who knows the match in SF4, knows that Chun can pretty much keep you out with fireballs unless she is careless and throws an obvious one while your in slide range. In SSF4, this wasnt the case because I could just bulldog her ass.
Anything else that I missed?
I overheard him saying something similar to that last night. This build of the game felt like a slightly fast SF4, with new ultras, but tons of characters already had some significant alterations, like Vega’s f+mk is now an overhead, so changes have been made.
Sorry for the double posts. I kind of just read a few questions and just wanted to answer them right away. I just got home from work, and I didnt want to keep you guys waiting 
Well I hope seth is telling us the truth and hopefully they will improve blanka from this build you are playing sir. Thanks for the updates. Keep them coming sir. Next time please try to cancel out of the coward crouch. EX up ball needs to knockdown! This is the most request upgrade to blanka that every blanka player can agree with and asked for in his thread. I would take the old ultra the way it is in sf4 if they gave him the knockdown on the ex up ball. Oh yea please try to hop over low attacks like sweeps and crouching shorts kicks with the :3k: beast leap.
i was just thinking about that lvl 2 focus crumble nerf… that is a roundabout nerf to us since our focus attack was pretty sexy. to all characters who had a good one in fact. thats goonna effect balance across the board.
Is EX Upball safe? I know it doesn’t knock-down, but does it put them in more hitstun?
Since SSFIV is faster, is it harder to do walking electricity? I read somewhere the Gen’s Hyakurenko was shortened to 4 inputs. Is the same with Blanka?
Yea I heard the samething about gen. They took some his links away also. That’s not a good sign, but atleast it wasn’t blanka. I doubt they would nerf blanka that way. I still haven’t seen in top tier blanka’s play with blanka on ssf4. The EX upball needs to KNOCKDOWN!!!
Some of the changes you guys want are completely ridiculous.
Blanka isn’t top tier for a few reasons but he’s still a strong character that can easily become overpowered if you beef him up - he’s nowhere near the level of trash that Dan/Guile/Vega/Rose/etc. are and doesn’t deserve such an extensive list of significant improvements.
Which changes will make him overpowered?
Most definitely a ball that knocksdown, and an even better ultra.
Asking for knock down on horiz balls is silly. Asking for knockdown of EX upball is kinda reasonable. Asking for knock down on EX up ball on CH is completely reasonable if not the only option. Blanka’s Ultra 1 is unimpressive for high level play. So no.