I noticed something interesting in this match. You scored six air resets (at 0:04 0:15 0:24 0:31 0:54 and 1:26). After all but two of them, you went for a slow poke. The first one you did a throw and it worked. The second two you went for cr.:mp: and cr.:hk:, respectively, and he focus absorbed both of them. The fourth you did jump back :hk: for the kill.
I am a recovering pattern player, so I am attuned to notice patterns like these (unfortunately, I never notice them in-game when my opponent does them). With your first reset, you threw him, and it worked. With the second one, I can understand the mindset of, “Oh, he’ll be expecting the throw, I’ll do something else.” He just so happened to focus absorb and punish. So, with your third air reset, I wonder what your mindset was to say, “Hey, it worked out so well last time, let’s do another slow poke!” At this point, maybe fall back on throwing, since his last response was to focus absorb. Take all of this with a grain of salt, however; I don’t claim to be great, but this is what I noticed and you asked for feedback =P
On the other side of the pattern coin, this Abel liked to do cr.:hp: xx roll, cr.:mp: for a reset and then command grab. You seemed to notice this pattern, and at 0:50 you did a REALLY smart SBK. You’ll notice that, at 1:33, the next time that he hits you with cr.:hp:, he goes for the sure-fire damage and throws the falling sky. THIS IS A GOOD THING! You got it in his head that he can’t walk all over you with resets and shenanigans, because you’ll EX bird him right out of it.
Keep your eye attuned to notice patterns like these, especially when dealing with resets and whether or not to throw the EX SBKs…yes they’re not tremendously fast, yes the hitbox is weird, yes they’re susceptible to jump in shenanigans; one thing that EX SBKs ARE great at dealing with is resets.
