I do this a lot but am finding it a pretty bad habit. People who’ve seen it a lot or people that like to mash jabs/crouch tech will mash jabs/crouch tech and hit you out of the -1million or whatever frames for a full combo or just for close frame advantage.
Lol, judging by those O’s, I think so!
It does kinda look impressive, and to play against a Blanka doing that stuff drives me insane. I understand completely why people hate the character so much after going a few rounds with an xx hop addicted Blanka. Even a straightforward hop -> meaty sweep after a knockdown gets me sometimes, it can be very ambigious looking. If you think about it, I suppose, it’s only a matter of pixels before it becomes a crossup and to catch such a small walk-forward animation is hard under stress… add some lag and you have a recipie for broken tv’s.
I’m going to try to incorporate xx hop into my gameplay a bit more… but only really xx backhops to bait punishes and to get safe spacing.
Xx hop junkie Blankas should be drowned at birth imo.
Yes mashing jabs will catch me but obviously if the hop cancel does t work I stop doing it…
I still find s.lp xx hop to be fairly useful in footsie game more of a counter than use it as a block… If your s.lp don’t hit you don’t hop if your s.lp connects you’ll hit him you’re now in his face…
-LAU
1 frame longer on back throw? WTF?
Yea thats what happens when everyone is positive about the changes and say he is going to be top tier in 2012, they take a closer look and nerf him more. Backthrow was the truth, now, who knows what will and wont work off of it. I really hope this doesnt mess up meaty setups as well.
The Japanese blog specifically says that change was made to prevent unblockables lol. (guard prevention during set-play)
Capcom only wants Blanka players to troll online in lag instead of looking for tech in the lab and making the character viable and fun.
Yea they want him to be a mixup based character.
We say new tech, they say unfair.
well if they want him to be a mixup character why nerf his best mixup?
This sucks, when is the update coming out so I can test for new unblockables?
Good question
I guess they dont consider an unblockable or “hard to blockable” …which is what they should have been called in the first place, as to not make them sound unfair… a fair mixup option.
Either way they were a good find and I am sure you can find more since you are good like that!
Maybe we should name them, hard to block mixups or ambiguous mixups from now on.
If I’m doing rainbow roll unblockables thats how you know I’ll have given up.
who says blanka becomes top tier?
right now i only see speculation because we haven’t seen what the new changes can/cannot do.
Lots were overjoyed when they announced ex upball knocked down, and you are right, we will see.
NISHIKIN here.
no stream, not even a saved one 
ohh men… i love it when they ragequit on me … my uber blanka made a 2800pp akuma/guile from france rage quit after his guile random ultra on me which i blocked and my ultra meter just got on after the 2nd hit was blocked… when he came down, i activated and right in that moment he quit…
his daughter was crying… sure :rolleyes:
Blanka still weak tier. The % of good blankas in the usa is low. what else is low? the % of people who know how to beat blanka.
Blankas in japan have been said by numerous players Ross, Champ, Strider, etc to be REALLY good and way beyond ours. But yet people still consider that character in japan to be low tier.
I’m not one to really care where my characters is in the tier list. I play him because i wanted to. Sf4 is so close to tier lists it’s not a big deal. Skill is the main factor here and just take your character to new heights. Still waiting for any blanka to make top 8 at any big tourney.
SummerJam is the only big American AE tournament where Blanka has done well, and attendance got messed up because of a hurricane. DemonHyo got 4th.
Post patch I don’t know how many matchups Blanka wins or loses, but I feel he has the potential to be strong.
I think the difference between 2010 and 2012 Blanka in terms of setups, tricks, option selects, and even combos is way different. I honestly think a lot of the perception of Blanka being a bottom tier character is that no one who actually knows how to do all of his stuff travels much. I think Blanka loses more matches than he wins in AE for sure, but I don’t think it is by a huge margin, and I think he’s able to fight most of the characters who beat him at least decently.
I’m optimistic about the buffs and I think I’m a good enough player to place well in any decent sized tournament I enter with a character who I feel now has everything he needs(other than unthrowable hop…)