Yes, i forgot Sakura and Dan, but about Oni & E. Ryu, what makes theme more winable than other good shotos ? I ask that because i really don’t have exp against them.
And Fuerte too, i know he is free on wake up (OS throw like Abel works great here) but this match up is still a mystery for me.
Akuma i tend to think Blanka has an advantage with more matchs against him, Blanka can wins with footsies & patience, but his sweep is so annoying and counter poke greatly your pokes.
E.Ryu doesn’t have the footsies to keep up with Blanka, his fireball is meh, you can punish his sweep with slide, his pokes are slow and all lose to st.fierce, his uppercut is vulnerable to whiff setups, and he has low stun which allows Blanka to dizzy him on 1 less mixup than an average stun character.
Yes his divekicks is good, he walks fast, and f.mk is useful, but all he has is those and damage. Who cares about how fast a character moves if they just walk into your buttons and who cares about their damage if you never get hit?
Oni has more tools than e.ryu, but he has to play a mixup based game on you, and his normal that moves him forward is negative on block and he can’t fadc his srk. So if he wants to mix you up off of you blocking it he has to take a huge gamble because a blocked dp is a huge punish for him. He’s also vulnerable to forced uppercut whiff setups.
E.Ryu ends up being an akuma with a crappy sweep who can’t actually hit you, and Oni is a ken who can’t frame trap. Neither of those things scare me.
Just wanna mention… Gouken’s U2 probably can now punish Blanka ball probably even on hit… if Gouken spins his joystick… i haven’t tested it… but it just seems logical to me…
don’t think it affects the match up THAT much… but it is there…
-LAU
nearly wanna get Ultra David back in the Blanka-tier discussion again lol
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Funny when I’m using Dee Jay I do well against Blanka, probably because I know Blanka’s game so well. I struggle against Chun’s though, I may win but it isn’t a pretty win. I need to play some good Chun Li’s.
Thanks for the infos, punish sweep with slide whooo need to test that, there are so few E. Ryu & Oni, and the few i meet are so bad.
Try playing against a good Blanka who knows the matchup, you will get stomped.
I do well vs. Blanka playing as Deejay, but when I play vs. the good XBL Deejays(Kurokiba, Freejay, etc.) It’s ridicuously easy, and I know they are really good players.
Also need to fight Twins in 2012 to see how is the deal with new changes, but it seems nobody play them now.
what has changed? I remember viscant used to think chun was a real bad matchup, and saiko, I used to find it hard to footsie vs her. Granted, I was pretty ignorant about the engine of the game back when I played but why is she now an easy match?
still dont have good idea to vs sakura, guile n m bison ><"
Chun can’t throw fireballs, her st.hk/hp are pretty useless, her level 2 focus is slow making it hard for her to crumple your far pokes, and she has no real ways to open you up other than by dashing forward or using hazanshu. Her jump is horrible.
Her footsies become limited to sweep, cr.mk, and st.mp, which while good all have their problems.
On knockdowns she’s easy to option select if she has no meter, and while it becomes a bit more tricky when she does, learning the timing isn’t that difficult. Her answers to jab xx elec pressure are not that good either so once you do safejump her even if she blocks you have the advantage.
Honestly Chun players should be thankful she has high stun, or this matchup would be even easier.
vs. sak and guile, knock them down, run mixups. Unblockable Guile if you can. Defensively both of those characters are horrible vs. Blanka.
vs. sak you need to not let her jump and you have to realize her footsie buttons are not as good as yours. Find angles you can jump to beat cr.hp with j.mp. Or try to empty jump it and punish.
vs. guile learn to slide booms, but also learn to keep moving forward while blocking. booms do no chip, walk him to the corner, and don’t be afraid to safejump flashkicks.
that’s a pretty bold statement, wanna explain why?
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He can’t duck out of the new unblockable, he has low stun, and his reversal is mad slow.
I played a money match vs. Rufus on Saturday and it was pretty difficult if rufus got in on me with no meter, but 3/4 times I landed a b.throw I dizzied him shortly after and ended up winning the round.
I’m assuming you’re talking about b.throw -> dash -> j.hk and he can’t duck it anymore, but in general after the unblockable to combo you probably still need to land another mixup on him before he’s dizzied right? wouldn’t this apply to basically any characters that you can land an unblockable on… like Guile for instance… (he’s got low stun as well if i remember right)
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you use mk now vs. rufus.
yeah you need 1 more mixup, but I don’t find that hard to do. It can happen before the b.throw too, and not after.
Good to know ves thank you for the rufous info too
About Chun, she also have a big hitbox so combos elec works greatly on her and also easy to safe jump (6 frames), with good footsies, i think this match up is for Blanka.
ves was the rufus mk unblockable the fast timing or the slow one? Also mp is unblockable on rufus, but he can duck
Fast like Viper timing.
ugh, when i said mp, I meant hp
i shouldnt be allowed to use a computer
thanks ves