I think they just chopped out 3 of the “squishy” frames at the end of it, but NOT the final 3 frames, just 3 leading up to the last ones, so the range shouldnt be changed, I think it turns out to be a buff since from start to finish he gets up 3 frames faster(if they jump or whatever) even though the hitbox on recovery is bigger, he wasnt hard to hit on recovery in vanilla anyway, so if you miss the distance by a frame or 3, he is still getting up faster overall. I had the timing down perfect on that move though, so its gonna take getting used to. To find out for sure, someone will have to go into training mode and mark the squares and hit a dummy standing on a certain square(I get ae pc on 5th july or else I would)
yeah the slide safejump setup against slower reversals no longer works. It’s dead in the water.
Safe meaty slide is no longer as effective either because you are no longer plus frames when you do it, it used to be +3.
New slide overall as an anti fireball tool is buffed though IMO, but I whiffed against a teleport against sim once when in super I would have tagged him. Kinda sucks.
Finally played some AE. Ball nerf hasn’t hurt me too much yet. I do find myself doing hp roll too much. Slide is awesome for one reason. People would jump over me while I slid then throw me. Can’t happen now. I can even throw them now. Awesome!
Rocked Blanka all the way through in my local ranbat. I made it to grand finals in winners side, but ended up taking second, I got wrecked in grand finals by the guy I beat in winners finals. Low turnout because there was a major and good players were out of town, 2nd place was 30 bucks on a 5 dollar tournament though.
vs. Bison
This match was tough, but he did a bunch of punishable stuff, and kept going for the U2 50/50, but I hit him out of it all 3 times.
vs. Chun/Makoto
He throws fireballs, I slide them all, then safejump over and over.
g2, I just do cr.short xx elec os slide over and over and it is good to me.
vs. Yun
Buffered elec is so godlike in this matchup. If you can do st.strong -> buffer elec this match isn’t so bad as long as you don’t get cornered. I’m getting better at countering ex lunge on reaction by sliding under or crouching under. dash elec after knockdowns is really good. Got hit by Genei Jin once, and that hurts so much, but I blocked the reset correctly and took the round.
Really I think Blanka vs. Yun is 5-5
Winners Finals vs. Yun/Ryu
G1 I blow up his Yun so badly, almost getting a perfect round 2.
He switches to Ryu, and I don’t really remember what happened but I got lucky here and there, it was a really sloppy set.
GF vs. Ryu
Same dude who I played in winners final. He tightened up his spacing and I couldn’t really do anything. knockdowns got OS’d to hell. I ended up losing 6-1, and I really feel I should have won the first set, but I made too many mistakes when it counted. I honestly don’t really know how to open Ryu up, all the rounds I won were from protecting slim life leads and getting good trades. I also attempted to U1 through cr.mk xx fireball, and the U1 whiffed, which got me another loss. I need to abuse st.jab xx hop through focus more it’s crazy good.
I dropped a crazy amount of combos including every attempt into ultra, I was not having a good execution day, but I played smart enough to beat players playing dumb. the ryu suggested I try Fei cause my toolset would seem to fit him. I’m thinking about it, fei is good.
Good job bro, u deserve it!
Some questions…keep in mind im coming from Vanilla so I dont know as much.
vs. Bison
This match was tough, but he did a bunch of punishable stuff, and kept going for the U2 50/50, but I hit him out of it all 3 times.
–What is the U2 50/50 setup and how did you hit him out of it?
vs. Chun/Makoto
He throws fireballs, I slide them all, then safejump over and over.
–Whats the safejump you used after slide?
g2, I just do cr.short xx elec os slide over and over and it is good to me.
–Can you explain this and when u used it?
Again great job and glad you are still workin on blanks, Ves.
bison just knocks you down and does meaty ambiguous ultra 2, I just ex upballed it cause I’m not gonna get hit by gimmicks.
I manually time the safejump after slide. I am very accurate against 6+ frame reversals. I do it vs. guile too cause I think the risk/reward is in blanka’s favor cause Guile players don’t like to wakeup flash kick, so even if I mess up I’m good to go.
cr.short xx elec, input df.hp. If makoto backdashes, elec does not come out, and slide does. If she does ex karakusa you end up breaking it. It loses to focus backdash, but most people don’t do that on wakeup.
Blanka players should pay for me to go to evo. I think I’ve given them 300 bucks worth of knowledge.
lol then we should fly ves in a private jet
I suppose I should point out this wasn’t his idea
just trying to help a friend!
He should be at Evo for sure, I’m not trying to hate.
Verserius:
you’re using U1 against Ryu? (saw the part you’re mentioning about dropping combos with ultra…)
-LAU
Yeah I use u1 vs. Ryu because I don’t sit on down back vs. him. I play the entire match trying to whiff punish.
I’m thinking about switching now though post nerf cause it seems better to just turtle your ass off and try to ultra through a cr.mk xx fireball.
I use u2 vs. Rose, Gouken, Akuma, Evil Ryu, Sagat, Dhalsim, and Oni. I will use it against Claw or Dictator depending on the player.
Do you use U2 KKK version vs them all mostly, due to all fireball chars? if so - what about chun and DJ? I am new to u2 so this is helpful strat advice on why u2 is best.
Fireballs for all of those characters. vs. Akuma/Gouken I use it vs. Demon flip. Against the characters with teleports, I use it vs. those, especially sims.
I never want to sit on db. vs. Chun personally. I prefer the mobility of slide + safejump.
Vs. Deejay I like U1 cause it punishes cr.mk, and once again i don’t like sitting on db vs. him. Him and Chun just walk too fast and I don’t feel db. is your strongest positon vs. them.
I only use the AA version if I get a crumple.
Nice vid, Very inspiring. Now if I could get my new stick so I can play…
New stick. Got to play some ae finally. I’m rusty. Reminds me of when super came out. Rhythm is off. I hate roll now, I must have used it too much to do chip damage in the past. Easy to adjust that though. Slide is ok. I hardly ever use ex rainbow so not worried about that. Ex electricty is very nice now. Combo with headbutt is pointless. Oh and I HATE getting thrown out of hop! Gotta get used to these adjustments!
ex rainbow is a buff more than a nerf…
because you can control it so much… it’s possible to set it as a unblockable reversal… before it’s much harder to near impossible to do that.
right now… the only issue is… if you wanna get out of the corner you gotta be more patient about it… that’s all… otherwise i find it one of his best buffs ever.
-LAU
I came crawling back to Blanka last night after an exclusive relationship with Oni since AE hit.
First of all Blanka = Wins… still. AE didnt hit him as hard as I thought it would.
I would trade faster EX Elec for less range on blocked balls any day of the week.
One thing im having trouble with is Hop Ultra. It feels like its alittle tighter than it was in Super (could just be me, IDK)
Im gonna read through what everyone has posted, im stoked to see whats new with the beast.
One thing I was alittle shocked about is just how hard it is to deal with the twins… I read whats been posted so far in the match-up thread, but this is obviously going to take some attention.
I don’t think Twins are that hard. i’d rather fight them than Cammy.
Also Blanka is not as strong as in super IMO. I think he has some more gimmicks, and some new tricks, but I feel fundamentally his character strengths have been neutralized, and he has more bad matchups.