Mashing on wakeup loses to pretty much everything though, much safer things than a launcher.
I agree with using it early to make your opponent nervous in the same way people DP through block strings early to send a message. I guess in general I don’t deliberately put myself in a 50/50 situation of one of us getting a combo unless I’m pretty sure.
Most of the time I hit people with raw launcher is after a jump in or cross up. People tend to go for lows after jumping so ill hit raw launcher if I notice a pattern.
Also it’s great tool to do the gootecks with haha.
I LOVE when people whiff raw launchers against me.
Every single thing you said is right. /thread.
thank you all for the good discussion, hopefully it doesn’t stop here though lol 
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So it beats every crouching move?Even things like Guile cr. hp?
it beats alisa’s DP, much to my sadness
Yes, even crouching moves that hit high it will outright beat. LOL my friend was pretty sad when I beat his law’s Cr. HP even though it clearly hits high.
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Too much risk to me. A whiffed raw launcher has about as many recovery frames as your average whiffed ultra in AE. Though I don’t feel like lookng up the frames so I’m not gonna throw out exact numbers. But whenever I see a fucked up launcher, it reminds me of when somebody completely misses Siberian Blizzard with Zangief. You just got fuckin DAYS to punish it.
True, it’s pretty risky. Best used when you really get a good feeling for your opponent’s habits during pressure, or when you can actually react to the low (ie.,someone actually does Guile’s cr.HK and you block the first hit, that’s like a free raw launcher lol). Free tag, minimal scaling, good damage.
It’s not too far off from low parry in Tekken (aside from of course being even more unsafe) - you know they like to do a certain low, low parry it and punish. You’ll make 'em more honest with that - people think twice after getting hit like that once, myself included lol.
This thread deserves more activity!
In my experience, here’s a list of characters who launcher works wonders on. Note, GET A GOOD READ ON YOUR OPPONENT, don’t just throw it out there. But, if you’ve realised they’re mashing crouching attacks, it wouldn’t hurt to press HK/HP.
Chun Li, Jin, Kazuya, and Cody. Yes, the list is small, but I know you guys have come up against people who crouch teched on their wake up, don’t let them do it!
Don’t be afraid to try it against shotos either, especially Ryus who like to frame trap with Cr.Mp.
exactly, but also the characters you listed seem to have a very linear fighting pattern(flowchart) that most players follow. Maybe its on a match up basis.
I do agree with you, people that play these characters tend to flowchart, but I don’t believe that should be allowed to happen, Perhaps, people need to implement OS’s into their games. I still feel launcher will play a massive part in this games Oki.
Raw launcher should be changing the game. Hell, people I’m playing online are starting to use it more and the people I use it on started to use it back on me later in the rounds. So yeah, leveling up.