yeah same here been playing again a little. I’m really EH about thsi game but what can i do. New version coming out =[
dont know how many of you saw pikachuakumas little compilation video of blanka players on eventhubs, but it deeply saddened me. all i saw was a bunch of online bullshit, save a few players like flash house, kimagure, and hero. now i truly understand why everyone hates blanka. seriously, why does everyone mash jab to get electricity off jump ins? am i going crazy? i cant be the only one that feels this way. it seems like almost no one who plays blanka plays him intelligently. everyone in my scene hates me because i play blanka. “oh man, i hate blanka more than any character in the game. hes so random,” says everyone in my local scene after i counterpoke them to death. learn the matchup. sorry for the wall of text, i just had to get this off my chest.
/end rant
blanka is pretty weak to have a highlight video of. He doesn’t have any swag combos and his swag comes from controlling space. Which is not fun in a video. it’s probably why you aren’t seeing a lot of sim swag videos either heh.
I think a blanka swag video would be like the t srai one, a bunch of combos to ultra, well timed hops, and just totally breaking the other player down.
Blanka has a lot of cool stuff it’s just not always apparent and a lot of it is character specific.
There were a lot of cool matches of T SRAI posted sometime ago… you could read a lot of people commenting on YT about how lame Blanka matches usually are, except for the ones with T SRAI.
Too bad he’s been absent lately…
Is it just me, or is Blanka the worst character in SFxT 2013?
You’re totally right sir. Blanka is terrible in SFxT 2013, he is a forgotten character. Still doesn’t have any decent ground anti air lol…
Pathetic meterless damage
Nerfed damage on v.ball
Weaker electricity hitbox
Average damage on normals
No cr.lk link (yeah because cr.lp is so much better)
Weaker mixups cos of rolls and no resets
What else did I miss?
I mean, did you guys see the change vid? Two “signficant” changes 1 nerf, 1 buff. And then Combofiend says:
"Blanka players will have to exercise caution when throwing out his special moves recklessly to remain effective"
As if that had anything to do with the changes lol. Just say it dude, Blanka still sucks.
"Blanka still remains a decent threat"
Oh please…
Yeah, i agree. Blanka is really depressing in SFxT. I don’t think i will play him, eveni if i usually love and always pick him in every game, he’s a failure in this game.
Are you guys going back (or never left) to SFxTK now?
Blanka really seems like a joke character on 2013… add to that list the lack of juggles.
I will try to give it a shot again yeah. And also, worse normals, unsafes as hell and no priorities (shitty sweeep…).
My initial impression of “vanilla” SFxTK was that charge characters pretty much sucked on it, and that was before Blanka was “official revealed”
Do you guys agree?
I tried Bison and he was weird on this game, also because of a bug where a charged move became a forward dash… i believe it’s fixed now. And also Guile, he was kinda decent but not very good (worse anti airs, worse fireball ground game etc…) so yes, odd feeling with charge characters in this game.
Guile being able to combo off of a 17f overhead or w/e is really nice.
I played sfxt seriously for the first 3 months it was out, so I’m gonna give it another shot. Nina/??? is what I’m looking at now.
I was playing Paul so i will continue with him. Maybe with Raven? I like his spacing’s abilities but don’t know if he worth it. Maybe Elena?
I tried Nina x Blanka. But Blanka is just too weak on his own, so I’ll keep Nina and now I’m looking for someone else to pair her up with.
440+ meterless damage midscreen is pretty sweet.
dudley/heihachi for me.
My team is dhalsim/blanka
Sim is preatty good in a game with chainable normals and without FA.
Don’t know about blanka…i think beeing twice as fast (feels like it) as the tekken cast is really good. His jump is very good in this game. HP, HK and cr.MK (lol) are also okay anti airs. J.HP is godly and he has good normals (though cr.LK is ass).
Just don’t use his specials outside of combos. None of them.
I enjoy playing him
Honest truth:
If you want to play blanka in sfxt, play kuma. Honestly, at the core principle, they are the same character. Except kuma does mad dmg while also zoninig. Of the styles of blanka, think more passive/zoneing/attacking when advantage arrises style of blanka vs gimicky spam specials blanka.
Blanka in sfxt is the worst joke. I could break it all down, but its too depressing and sad. Moving on to the bear!
Oh, check this out:
Apply to your character of choice, watch end of second round.
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