It’s pretty good, though i wish the hitbox was slightly better and it was 1 frame faster.
That third alt of Blanka’s is freaking bullcrap. I can’t focus on what the hell Blanka’s doing with all those feathers flying around everywhere.
i don’t have it myself but i played against blanka who had it and that was so weird. all my spacing was screwed up. i doubt i can play any better if i used it 
I used it for a few weeks and then lost the confidence to wear it, like a bad purchase of pink pvc trousers… with flashing green lights around the crotch. I didn’t notice any advantages to wearing it and was left with a feeling of guilt that I had worn it.
you cannot see them unless you have them
I thought the dlc was free to download but to wear the stuff you have to pay. I can see other alts even though I didn’t buy them. 
if you mean blanka’s outfit… on xbox you don’t need to buy them to see them. if you download the free catalog, you’ll see them
got 4th at a tournament today.
Alex Valle is very very hard to play against. I need to have headphones next time.
congrats ves!
would like to see some vids!
is there a link?
they only recorded marvel, also very small turnout, haha. Only 13 players compared to 30 something for marvel.
got counterpicked in loser’s semi finals, oh well.
I just need to play against good players more often, hopefully over the summer that will be the case.
LOL!
okay…
I haven’t played much for the last 2 or 3 weeks, mostly just training mode to test some things now and then.
Hopped online to play a few games because I’ll be busy this week again and probably not be able to get any live games in till Saturday.
Played 4 games against this super mashy 20k bp fei. I lost the first 3, but in the 4th set, I just sort of calmed down and let him whiff his stupid shit and punished him. Mashing dp and hoping I’m going to hit buttons that cross into the dp hitbox is not a legit strategy. Really frustrating though. Fei’s j.mp can stuff cr.mp, this dude’s footsies were thankfully not that good. Getting hit by random shit and losing over and over because blanka is ass and I’m slow to adapt makes me sad. Oh you blocked my first 2 rekkas? LETS DO A THIRD ONE.
Makes me want to play a good character.
Use more fa vs jumpins just do lvl 1 backdash. Also I use neutral hp against fei when I can he doesn’t have a fast jump.
Also tokido told me to never miss a rekka punish. It’s hard but s.lp can punish a bad spaced one. Gl with that though.
yeah I switched to neutral hp about halfway into the second match. so godlike
Also yeah, I don’t miss rekka punishes for the most part, it’s honestly not that bad. the problem is if they stagger rekkas, the second one can catch st.jab. It’s such a bullshit “strategy” because if you block the second rekka it’s free U1 for Blanka.
Blanka is ass. I was just playing a bloke called ‘i hate blanka’. He was picking blanka. I reset my savegame last week and brought blanka back up to B again in a few days. Piss easy. Once you hit 2500pp things turn pearshaped again very quickly. Sick of his restricted move set.
I honestly think Blanka’s moveset is fine other than a few things.
f.dash is too slow should be 2 frames shorter, cl.jab needs to be 3 frames, cr.jab needs its hitbox raised, cr.short should have 1 less frame of recovery, heavy normals shouldn’t be focus bait so much.
He’s probably one of the characters who could have been fundamentally fixed by all the low level tweaking they’ve been doing, but they don’t really have a design philosophy.
SFIV - good balls, high damage ultra, high health
Super - damage down, health down, hop improved, crouch nerfed, balls improved, I really think they nerfed j.mk hitbox wise, slight normal hitbox improvements
AE - nerf hop, nerf balls, change slide, change ex rainbow, buff ex elec, buff rockcrusher/overhead
It’s like they have no design philosophy and have no idea what they want people to be doing. The ex rainbow change feels completely arbitrary. Like we don’t want you to be able to get away quite as well, but we’ll let you do some gimmicky stuff with it, but gimmicks are bad so we’ll nerf hop. It’s like they want us to rush down, but Blanka’s rushdown is mediocre because he doesn’t have the tools for it, but they don’t want us to gimmick or play lame.
Anyways for all of my bitching he’s badly designed, but he’s not awful. He beats up on characters, but he loses to good characters for the most part simply because all he can really do is try to lame them out.
If you’re a good enough player you should be able to do a little damage with him in tournaments, I can and I’m not that good at this game.
I wish I knew how capcom wanted us to play this guy.
I hate being 1/2+ a screen away with him. I can feel people laughing at me mockingly:
“Go-on, lets have ya! Slide, rainbow, ball, hop… I’ll halt any of your advances with a simple jab. Twat!”
I’m getting better, but I still feel that paranoia. His footsies, whiff-ball zoning, walkspeed and dashes are alright but sometimes I just want to fire a fucking laser at people from midscreen. Take that you knuts, didn’t expect that did you?!?
Don’t mention mvc3, not interested.
All Blanka really needs is LP ball completely safe, and maybe faster dash or hop.
Also, If you wanna make HP ball unsafe, at least make it as fast as sumo torpedo.
Started playin again, wonder if I can get to A+ rank. I have to get better tho.
Why the cr.jab hitbox woes? Trying to imagine the scenario; In what situations does it whiff? Slightly airbourne opponants that are jumping back, whiffed srk landings (reminds me of trying to cr.hk a landing opponant with Honda, useless compared to any other normal).