Recently against Blanka I’ve gone full down back. I just wait and either “try” to react to anything he does and punish everything. I just save my super now and just super and ultr any balls and just make them grow impatient
Does elbow beat all his jump ins?
Why would a Blanka do a ball when you have u2 or super unless they suck?
You just answered your own question.
Any tips against Gen? This feels like a 10-0 mu and I’m not even exaggerating. Feels like this character can jump in for free and I can’t do anything about it.
How do you even get meter if you’re just down-backing?
Frankly, all Blanka seems to have to do is just spam ball. outside U2 and super there isn’t really a lot Hugo can do about it.
it breaks armor, it lands outside Hugo’s effective attack range on hit and block, and it’s very hard to hit him out of it.
You know as a former T-hawk main, I was kinda looking forward to not having an 8-2 match again blanka. all well.
are there any of dudleys jumps that you can regular shootdown backbreak? I know ex works but my regular ones get stuffed
Just St.Hp vs Dudley’s jumps he has no two hitting moves
Man! I haven’t even played against a gen yet. Doesn’t elbow work or is his jump too fast?
Ducking mp trades with ball.
Gen has a two hitting air normal so it’s a no go on the st.hp. he has a lot of tools to fight hugo specifically even though people say he struggles vs grapplers. He’s got a good movement speed to go in and out to poke you and he can change between long pokes or shorter ones with little recovery to keep you guessing. If you can get him knockdown though (like everyone else) he’s pretty easy to deal with.
Some random notes vs Elena:
In the neutral game Hugo’s cr.lp/lk are relatively good at mid-range because they’ll stuff a lot of her buttons at range.A lot of Elena’s buttons aren’t safe up close, but at range they’re very safe/unpunishable, so she spends most of the match there. Good news is that even though she has impressive walk-speed, she doesn’t get a lot off of counter-poke cancels. i.e. cr.mp xx spin scythe at range will whiff against crouching Hugo (haven’t tested, but i’ve observed).
You have to block really well and tech throws, and or create enough offense/presence so she doesn’t get a safe opportunity to use U2. Hugo doesn’t have any way to chase an Elena with U2 after getting hit with the Spin Scythe Follow up without killing himself. I recommend to use U1 against her so you have tools to kill her “twice”. hp.mallet smash can be offensively punished with lk.back breaker on reaction or stuffed with cr.lk (counterhit).
anyone else have any significant experience against Elena with Hugo?
Toughest matchups for me so far Ryu, Gouken, Oni, Blanka, Guile. Surprisingly I haven’t done too bad against Sagat. Thank goodness for his TS nerf.
Decapre matchup seems to be in Hugo’s favor. All her specials are punishable and her non Ex psycho sting reversal is throwable.
Edit to note: DCap can make her air spiral arrows safe. And her EX hands are 0 on block.
OMG the Gouken, Oni Dee Jay match up are soo bad. Especially a knowledgeable player. i literally can’t do anything against these high online ranked characters. I put Poison, Dhalsim, blanka and Juri up there too. I haven’t had that much problems with guiles. These are the main characters I have been having problems with
I don’t think Blanka is a bad matchup. Trading balls with cr.MP is really good, damages him and sets up your ulltra 2 to finish the round.
Just be on point with anti airs and there’s not much blanka can do against you, except that Hop xx Throw crap that is specially good against Hugo because even our light normal have bad startup and crappy recovery.
Hond on the other hand, is a really impossible matchup, because it’s not as easy to react against Headbutt as it is to react against Blanka Ball.
Oh, and the new EX Ochio that’s also grab invincible is REALLY good against Hugo.
How do you escape izuna drop in the corner?!?!
Yeah man I dunno either a…
Currently I’d say the hardest match ups for Hugo seem to be Ibuki, Viper and Claw.
You can BB blanka balls on reaction, yeah not on block but when they are travelling towards you =)
Why would Ibuki and Viper be bad matchups for him? I’m pretty sure it’s the other way around.