How can you tell when you are linking?

ClutchCombo · August 21, 2012, 1:06am

I’ve been grinding and when I do some dudley links that end in standing HK only sometimes I can go into ex machine gun blow. Any advice? I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.

m0mo · August 21, 2012, 1:59am

what i’m guessing is you’re trying to also cancel the st. hk into ex mgb. And if only that comes out it means you did it too fast. if your opponent blocks it it means you did it too slow (autblock must be on).

ClutchCombo · August 21, 2012, 6:38am

I do Cr.Lp Cr.Lp Cr.Lp Link St.Hk xxxx ExMGB
But a lot of the time it feels like St.HK isn’t linking its cancelling. Idk but exmgb doesn’t come out.

MrAnnual · August 21, 2012, 6:43am

Crouch jab always links to stand roundhouse, there’s no chain or target combo. If you’re EX MGB isn’t coming out then check your inputs, maybe you’re not hitting the punch buttons before you get to the forward input or you’re being too slow.

Thirtyfour · August 21, 2012, 6:52am

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It sounds like you’re trying to “chain” c.LP s.HK
tut sorta explains what chainin and linking is.

Taken from Wiki

Linking moves is the act of performing a move with quick startup immediately after a move with quick recovery has connected while your opponent is still in hit stun, thus linking both attacks together into a combo. In general, a combo can be formed either by canceling one move into another move, or by linking one move into another move. The difference is that in canceling, the animation of the earlier move is interrupted, whereas in linking, the animation of the earlier move is not interrupted.
A chain combo, first seen in Vampire/Darkstalkers, is a combo or a part of a combo that only uses normal moves or command moves. Although chain combos allow for a reasonable degree of flexibility, some characters (generally large ones) are unable to use chain combos Alternative names for chain combos are: target combos, precanned strings, and canned strings. The latter two are generally misused (strings, by definition, are different from combos).

Dudley’s chainable moves are his c.LP s.LP and f.LP

ClutchCombo · August 21, 2012, 7:43am

Just went in the lab and tried it. Out of 10 times St.HK linked 7 times and Exmgb came out 4 times. Maybe I just need more practice

Thirtyfour · August 21, 2012, 8:04am

s.HK xx EX MGB is a cancel
c.LP, s.HK is a link
EX MGB > duck upper is a juggle

just practice your links and cancels separately
c.LP c.LP s.HK one session
s.HK xx anything another
in no particular order

GL There’s a lot to learn at first but it gets easier with tut and playing a lot.

ClutchCombo · August 22, 2012, 1:26am

Dudley is great. I am linking almost anything into S.HK I only have problems linking forward HK into S.HK.
Dudley is also really fun he doesn’t have very many OS from what I see though. I learned his Safe jump setups.
Links are becoming way easier for me though

Thirtyfour · August 22, 2012, 2:36am

Dudley’s OSs are very character specific due to his range of his moves and DP.
Tut will cover everything hopefully I record it thursday and upload it friday.

Soon