EX Upball, safe on hit? LP elec loops? Any news?
Dude when you stated that G1 is you’re measuring stick to how blanka can be played you lost me. No one that has true skill at SF4 gives a flying fuck about G1 ranking online, because online gameplay isn’t the game. It’s only a tool to use, but unless you are winning against top players in a offline tournament setting you’re G1 ranking don’t mean crap. Please don’t bring the online ranking into this thread to try and prove how good you are in sf4. I won’t take you serious if you start you’re argument in that fashion.
Ok now to the list you made of blanka’s tools. None of his cross up tools that you listed are good against characters with a dp. With the auto correction on the dp’s in sf4 will have you landing on a dp>fadc>>into ultra/super everytime. GOOD blanka’s don’t try to cross up all the time because they are aware of this fact. Those are gimmicks and gimmicks get you but so far in sf4 imo. The problem isn’t blanka don’t have some tools, but his tools don’t do damage like other characters. he has a ton of gimmicks and tom foolery that will work some people, but it’s just so much harder to win with him than other character in sf4. That’s the beef blanka players have with this version of jimmy. He’s just so limited in what he can do in sf4 imo. A lot of people share my view of blanka also. This is not to say it’s impossible to win with him. All i’m saying is he needs to be improved a lot in ssf4.
Thank you, and further more i only brought it up because i felt that it hurt the character art direction that made the game so interesting in the first place.
Blanka is afterall a feral wild man, who lives in a jungle in brazil, it just makes zero sense to have him a comedic punching bag in a pink gi…further more can you picture them doing that to the series flagship characters, ryu, sagat, bison,ken,ect???
Oh I get it! You want to make his moves even less safe! To the point that you’ll finally be able to punish Blanka balls with Ken’s FP Shoryuken on hit!!!
The Mullah and DeLucifer are right. Blanka takes too much damn work to win against an opponent with a lot more options. He’s fun to use, and will provide a challenge, but I’m on the way to picking up another character that can take the heat better.
He need to be able to FADC out of way more moves and I hope that his new ultra can be reasonably set up, or at least used in a combo.
Thank You.
I guaran-fucking-tee you most of the people who post here don’t hit-confirm combos on a regular basis unless it’s after a long string of mashing out jabs or shorts. At least I have the balls to admit it.
Now carry onto the Blanka whining - you should see some of the reasonable threads for the other characters which suck way more than Blanka who are only asking for a few things.
At this point you’re just trolling/flame baiting the thread with pity-party nonsense. Bring something useful to the discussion or crawl back to the Vega thread.
The primary problem that needs to be resolved in my opinion…is to make blanka ball safe on hit. It pisses me off so much that some1 will beat with an Ultra in a close game because they failed to block me…that doesn’t even make sense.
If Capcom doesn’t fix this I’m just going to switch to Cody or someone that isn’t so flawed at high-level play. And I’m sure that other players will probably do the same.
This is just me, but I think Blanka needs an easier way of getting in. That’s the main problem against defensive Boxer - you can’t get in. Without adding new moves, I think having hop invulnerable to low attacks would make him more viable against defensive characters.
If this is the case, then fireball characters would have their fireball game shutdown. I can imagine the new flowchart against these characters is to run away and focus the shots. Smart players would have no choice but to get into Blanka’s close-range, which can be countered by Blanka’s hop which can be countered by fireballs which can be countered by Shout.
Speculation: I also noticed that the AA ultra can be held and the ground slam can’t be held. Sounds like the playtesters found ground slam to be too powerful, that’s why the two are different.
elec pushes back opp further. Walk speed is the same. Balls are different but nobody knows yet if theyre safe from balrog punish etc. I dont know about upball, nobody from the fight club seems to have noticed any differences.
answer to SHINBLANKA
I know that playing at G1 doesnt mean ****!!! But there are many experienced fighters at G1 so I know what I am talking about! at G3 and G2 i thought blanka were GOD TIER cuz I bet up nearly everyone…than i went over to G1 and i realized that i knew NOTHING!!! but i lerned…
I KNOW that it can be really hard to beat good players but with my list of things i just wanted to show you, that there ARE options to beat them!!!
I know there are a lot of players who say online playing isnt compareable to the arcades!
YOU CAN COMPARE IT!!! JUST DONT play 1;2;3 bar connection fights!! KICK THOSE 1 or 2 barMORRONS OUT OF YOUR LOBBY
you cant tell me that 4 or 5 bar connection fights are still THAT different to offline gameplay!!
of course you cant abuse it!! but its an option!!
Thats not true!!! blanka has a lot of 3 hitters that do A LOT of damage!!!
okay, i know there is sagat but he is overpowerd!
you are absolutly right!!
blanka isnt top-tier but he isnt THAT bad either!
he needs some new tools and i am sure he will get them!
I WOULD BE HAPPY IF HE GETS A COMBOABLE INSTANT OVERHEAD!!
and for the non believers:
YOU CAN COMBO INTO ULTRA!!! just practise the damn link!!
YOU DONT HAVE TO END EVERY COMBO WITH THE BALL!!
HK after crMK or closeMK works fine too!!!
or you can FADC after ball, so it becomes safe!
First off, yes, even 5 bar connections is WAY different from play in real life. Period. The net code in SF4 is ass. Dont get me wrong, I still play online when Im really bored, but even the best of connections isnt like playing offline. Sorry bro.
Second, even with all the obvious shit you listed, shit that WE ALL ALREADY KNEW ABOUT, Blanka still isnt even a mid tier character now. He’s been figured out. Hell, he was figured out like 6 months ago. Can he win? Yes. But is he viable at tournament level play? No, not really.
Basically, what I’m saying, is your pretty much delusional. You seem to think Blanka is much better than he is. You keep listing his options, but what you fail to realize is that 90% of the cast has those same options, and 65% of the cast does them way better than Blanka, and safely at that.
People that have your views are the reason that Blanka probably wont get what he needs to compete at a high level in SSF4, and the reason that a good majority of the Blanka players are going to be switching to a new character in Super.
New facts
new facts about BLANKA in SSF4
Blanka
- Blanka’s walk speed is faster now.
- Crouching Hard Punch is a better now. Faster, sticks out farther and seems to be a much better poke and anti air.
- New Ultra: Shout of Earth. This move has two versions, when done with 3x Punches it’s an anti air, 3x Kicks is an anti ground move. It’s performed like Guile’s original Ultra move in Street Fighter 4, but you can hold the button and release it when you want the attack to come out. Seth Killian told a player the Kick version can punish fireballs at full-screen’s distance, although you’ll still take damage from the fireball, they’ll take full damage from your Ultra.
- Horizontal ball flies closer to the ground, apparently someone sweeped Blanka out of it.
- Chip (block) damage on old Ultra, Lightning Cannonball, has been reduced.
hmmm…not what i expected…
faster speed…okay
crHP is better anti-air…unnessesary… crMP works fine already…
ultra punishes fireball full range: NICE!!!
AS I SAID:
Blanka isnt top tier but he is not THAT bad!!! i didnt say anything more or less!!!
didnt want to offense somebody, but its my opinion!
other chars can do there combos easier but that only means you have to practise more! i would never turn to a scrub tier like SAGAT, RYYU or BOXER just cuz of that!
whats your xbl tag, let me play you. i have a tournament coming up this weekend and i need to play G1 standard people to get back into shape after my mw2 vacation! lol
Did i play you2 nights ago?
@ Mullah
gamertag is the same like here:
hagenNORKANOIA
i played against you but that it was some month ago…then i asked you wheather you use turbo!!
you answered i should watch your youtube vids and i did!! AMAZING!!!
we can play some games ! would like to lern some stuff from you! and i just started practising blanka’s advanced combos…
BTT:
GEN’S slapping hands needs only 3 or 4 inputs in SSF4! I WANT THIS FOR BLANKAS ELEC TOO!!!
cuz im not fast enough
oh i remember. Well keep trying and your english is fine.
Its all well and good being positive but you only play online so your view is hampered by poor competition. unless you’re playing alioune, vryu, starnab, skatan, louie, me, infexiuos, british justice, zakbeast, prof jones, adm, lorddvd etc regularly you wont be playing proper sfiv. And i may be wrong but when i travelled to germany to compete in a tournament last year the standard of comp was below that of top london/ french players, how is the offline german scene now?
Ugh, all the things I like about Blanka are going. Elec loops, Chip ultra mixups 
Yeah, everyone’s saying walk speed is better and normals are better, but judging from the vids (bad idea I now) seems pretty similar to me.
Will Exceed 2 be the swansong for your Blanka Mullah? :crybaby:
Am I missing something, or isn’t that already the case? Maybe I’m getting it mixed up with low forwards hitting him out of hori ball, but even then I’d assume sweeps would do the same.
No, I’m not sure why anyone was making a big deal about that, it was always the case. It’s like within the first rotation or 1.5 rotations that he’s still considered grounded. You can test it with Chun pretty easily or another Blanka doing slides.