Maj:
Umm, seems like you took Buk’s response a little on the personal side?
I mean, there is supposed to be some useless trivia/funny facts that kinda totally defy common sense in here right? I mean, Rock’s Shine Knuckle NOT being able to punish the slash, comes as a complete surprise to me really. I mean come on, everyone knows that super you use to nab silly people throwing fireballs from across the screen right? It’s fast, goes across the screen in a flash, how could it fail? I mean if Shine Knuckle doesn’t work, the is it such a bad thing that Sonic Hurricane doesn’t work? Without a doubt, both Sonic Hurricane and super Blanka ball come to mind immediately in any fast supers contest. Trivia knowledge here is just how far back is Hibiki when she does that slash anyway? And if you don’t play Hibiki (and I doubt you’ve played CvS2 for a long time Maj?), how would know the pushback on her combo is that good?
As for the other stuff: I think you’re thinking too deep, and too good at finding loopholes :D. I mean, think about how the question was written. Kyosuke doesn’t get much play, due to his reputation for being the worst character in the game? (hey, at least with King, you can roll and throw!) So… how about asking a question about his fireballs properties? That nice split projectile landing late => “oooh, exploitable”. What’s the easiest way to make it land late? Crouching. Ah, and when you write the question, you don’t wanna give away the character too easy right? I mean, any addendum you slap on will probably make it painfully obvious that’s it Kyosuke right? To be honest, I can’t think of a simple way to ask the question, without having some loophole in it. You definitely don’t want to allow anything that lets you say throw a slow power wave, and run/jump across screens to get “frame advantage” or anything silly. And you dont’ wanna spend 5 years wording up a question either right?
As for me, I answered the WRONG question. See initially, I was like, oh, he said strong slash, because everyone knows Bison scissor kicks can punish the jab one right? So, off I go training mode. And the first time I did the dummy recording, I mashed out the shorts, jab, strong slash. Then I remembered, Ah yes, if you link the shorts, and don’t chain them, you get more pushback! So I gave myself a mental pat on the back, rerecorded Hibiki doing the combo, then started testing. Sadly though, I forgot the question wasn’t about seeing what can hit back Hibiki’s B&B when done perfectly. It was asking for MAX range slash. I’m betting a lot of trivia testers would’ve just gone for the cr. short x3 combo to try and hit back the slash, because how else do you set up a max range slash? See, if you wanted to get the right answer to this question, you’d have to do something like set the dummy to run you into the corner (so it’s now a fixed distance), step back, and by trial and error find the max range of the slash, and try to hit THAT back.
For the record, Dhalsim’s fierce can hit back cr. shortx3 even when done perfectly, but fails against max range strong slash, because it’s OUT OF RANGE. Buk, you sneaky bum, my attempt to find a loophole has failed 