I’ve found that when I put someone into the corner (esp. by a roll throw), the rainbow ball is practically a free hit unless they are really good. The drop will come down right on top of them and a lot of wakeup moves will step under it before beginning the hit, so it’ll hit them as a crossover. I’m guessing everyone knows this a long time ago, but just in case. If I don’t spam it during the match, it will often work against even good players as a last ditch effort.
One of my favorite tricks is hopping around constantly just to keep them confused. Plus, they have to listen to the darn roar every time, which must drive them insane. I wouldn’t know since I usually play with the sound down. :lovin:
I’d say my favorite move is EX Rainbow Roll at full screen distance for the crossup. I’m still surprised by ow many people fall for that. SOOO cheap.
It’s also fun to continue crouching under fireballs against fireball spammers. I love watching their desperation as the clock ticks down to 30 seconds and they still haven’t hit with a fireball for chip damage.
“dirty tactics” haha love it, J.hk>S.mk>S.hk is a good one nice damage and also less recovery compared to jump in combos ending with a blanka ball if it happens to get blocked just gotta link the last two moves together, tricky at first probly in the combos thread but oh well. :rock:
i don’t know how to stress this enough, drop the rainbow ball tactics. it just isn’t smart. all your opponent needs to do is FA and proceed to rape you however they choose. even if your opponent isn’t hip to the FA if they block you rainbow ball you are going to get destroyed. its best just not to use rainbow ball outside of corner escape.
^ agreed except for those commonly described “telepathic” moments, though i still get crossed up by other blanka’s using it occasionally but then again im not very good (yet)
corner escape, setups involving purposly missing and proceeding from there, using the invincibility frames it has to get the fuck away when not in the corner, and maybe MAYBE if you are getting fireball spammed and he isnt capable of punishing with super/ultra or some shit like that but its really not an offensive weapon. its more of a position ball than an attack ball.
I pulled up a double crossup ultra in a championship match online, that was pretty dirty. The hop-to-the-other-side ultra seems to crossup at the right range (I did it to a sleeping opponent, who failed to block, but I only got one or two hits; perhaps it’s like the overhead fail, or an instance of it?)
I know in the corner after a bite if you do the ball to ultra if you time it differently you can either hit them in the back or front. The timing is hard though and sometimes it only hits twice like yours did.
It can be confusing to the other player though cos your crossing over him with the ball and then you can either cross him up again with the ultra or just hit him in the front.
and then gets horribly punished unless it’s a finisher. And if it’s going to be a finished you’re hoping they don’t see it coming, otherwise you’ll still get hit…
probly in the combos thread but oh well. :rock: