EX Legs & Reversals

Hi,

I’ve tried to google exactly what a reversal is and how to use it when you are getting hit ( and failed to block ). I’ve been experimenting playing as chun li against ryu in training mode and ive recorded ryu doing 3x cr.lp, with chun li i can get the reversal after the last cr.lp with a ex spinning bird kick but i cant with the previous 2 hits from ryu (i have pleanty of charge btw ), is the whole point of a reversal after a opponents combo to punish with less startup frames with your special or can you use it to break a opponents combo in the middle of it?

The reversal should happen just after the oppoent hits me correct, just as the hit ‘exploding circle’ animation disapears? then i come out with a special move?

Apparently now the window for a reversal is 5 frames, in SSIV. right?

Any answers will be much apreciated.

Thanks, nachos!

Sorry title should be ex spinning bird kick and reversals.

A reversal happens when you do a special move as soon as you wake up. I don’t know why you’re trying to combo it off crouching jabs when you should be doing :lk::lk: EX legs. Think of EX SBK as Chun li’s Shoryuken, it’s an invincible attack that can be used as an anti air, but that’s what its generally what it’s for. It is a reliable reversal, but I don’t think you quite know what a reversal is yet. When you do it during your opponent’s combo and it lands, it should be considered a “counter”. You should post this kind of stuff in the Q&A thread, we usually just discuss this kind of stuff in that thread if we need to.

A reversal isn’t just on wake up, any special move can be a reversal if time directly after block stun or basically in the window directly after (its hard for me to explain the exact timing here) an opponents attack. Reversals gain new properties on the move that you’re using as the reversal move that wouldn’t normally apply to that move…

Namely all specials gain the armour break property for example if Ryu throws a fireball then holds focus if you HSU over the fireball the focus will absorb the HSu hit, If however you block the fireball then HSU within the reversal window the HSU will break the focus attack…

And yeah this didn’t need a new thread, also my explanation is pretty average at best but if you can understand it, that’s a reversal is :)…

Basically any special move used either on wake up or in a small window of time after blocking an attack, due to it being a reversal it will focus break… BTW EX Legs worst reversal move ever, don’t mash that and try to use it as a reversal during peoples block strings… PLEASE!

my 2 cents

I think its “non-fireball”-special.
At least fireballs don’t get armorbreaking properties as a reversal, iirc.