ive finally given up on him. absolute garbage against even a B rank let alone anyone higher ranked.
You can’t play him seriously, he has no tools. It isn’t possible to play him in a solid way. At least for me.
<span style=“font-family: ‘lucida grande’, ‘Lucida Sans Unicode’, tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7em;”>lp clap and Body Press damage reduction was unnecessary, combos doing 400 now does 300. Back Breaker increased, but is the last hit. </span><span style=“font-family: ‘lucida grande’, ‘Lucida Sans Unicode’, tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7em;”>lk and mk backbreaker should be airborne earlier with no hitbox in the head, and should work. Only EX really works and HK when someone jump back (sometimes). </span><br><br>The good thing is he has a lot of life yet, but I believe Capcom was mean with us.
They just fucked up with him from the beginning. His best tool was the splash and that was abusable and weird, to be honest. But he was designed that way and built around that, you can’t just take that away from him and expect him to be anywhere near solid.
I was ok with the change on hitbox and block stun. Cross-ups are more ambiguous now, and you can grab right away, or if you don’t hit the cross-up, you can fall doing a meat squasher or regular grab. But active frame where excessively reduced. The red hitbox should be at least increased, we can’t stay in the ground, can’t jump unless very close, can’t do much damage…<div><br></div><div>I liked that setup with Blanka, anyway, although he can do that with Yoshimitsu, law and some others, the opponent must burn a meter to escape. </div>
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<div class=“QuoteAuthor”><a href="/profile/2761/azis">azis</a> said:</div>
<div class=“QuoteText”><br><div><br></div><div>I liked that setup with Blanka, anyway, although he can do that with Yoshimitsu, law and some others, the opponent must burn a meter to escape. </div></div>
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Yeah, but you have to burn two.
If you make you opponent fear your lariat, you can just charge until ex, release it and tag in Blanka for just 1 bar. If they don’t fear it… well, then you get free damage.