I dont think Gouken will be free for anyone anymore, he just keeps getting buffed and the potential was high since he was underused in the 1st place. You know a Gouken is decent if you play them and they try to frame trap you with cl.s.mp. a lot.
Stay out of the corner at ALL costs vs a decent Gouken, his corner combo dmg is redic.
I don’t see how Gouken still isn’t free for Blanka. I thought Blanka won 6.5-3.5 before I even knew the unblockable or the st.mk os stuff existed.
I’d like to be able to spell it out better, but right now its nothing more than a personal opinion. I feel he is undiscovered and his new tech/discovery combined with buffs will mean he is not free for anyone anymore, including our buddy Blanka.
Im no Gouken expert, but like Josh said on the prev page, they are quite the happy bunch right now and I think its valid.
I can still just st.mk him to death and he still can’t zone me. Gouken could already punish Blanka’s stuff, but Gouken players didn’t know they could with dash forward into xxx.
Yeah gouken is better, but unless he backthrows me I’m still probably not going to lose the round.
Well you are a good player, and im not saying you would lose the round, but I am saying I dont think he will be free to Blanka anymore. Was Gouken able to punish EX upball both ways before?
I’ll have to keep st.mk in mind vs him, I dont use that move very much at all.
He could punish with dash forward low strong.
cl.mk is super underrated. If it was +4 it would be amazing, it’s pretty much a ghetto rose cl.mk, but it only beats cr.tech not stand tech, and ch with it doesn’t give you any additional combo chances, except vs. armor moves. Landing cl.mk vs. counter then linking cr.mk off of it is very satisfying.
dont know if anyone ever mentioned it, but are there ANY unblockables that other chars have vs blanka?
in AE yang could set up crouch unblockable divekicks
makoto can set up unblockable axe kick
all I know about though.
what are the setups? just wanna know because than i can react to it with ex rainbow or sth.
basically any of the cl.mk, j.hp resets with yang wind up with you not being able to crouch block the divekick.
no idea how the makoto setup works, I just try not to block axe kicks.
Juri used to be able to off a throw in the corner but I’m fairly sure it doesn’t work anymore.
Blanka might be the most improved character. No sleeping on him from me anymore!
Why is deejay so easy? I find him hard
He has a floaty jump, kneeshot is easily anti aired, his fireball is pretty slideable on reaction, his normals are horrible, you destroy him on wakeup, his mixup game is limited, and he does no damage in footsies without spaced sobats that you can nj and do 300+ damage to him for.
Basically nothing he wants to do works properly vs. blanka, and you are free to do whatever you want to him all the time.
What do you run on his wakeup?
mostly dash elec/cr.short xx elec
Once I’ve taught them that reversals don’t work I mix in overhead. It’s just easy to mix someone up who can’t reversal.
Thx bud
Nice, hope we will watch him on a japanese tournament or just casual matchs.
DJ is only hard if you have issues reacting to him. Which can happen online. But if there is no latency issues you can pretty much react to anything he does and beat it up. Honestly on wakeup i don’t do much i just don’t think he can really foots with me. If anything the reason why that matchup may not be easy is because most people aren’t used to his array of tricks. Which is why a lot of people online lose to us they aren’t aware of our options.