I didn’t think she would keep the attacking after glide
we in there boyz. our pressure will be strong as fuck
950 health lmao Capcom drunk
But ill take it
I think they gave her 950 cuz her vtrigger is 3 bars.
I would have prefered them just make her scarier to deserve the 900 hp, but i’ll take that.
That ninja training increases stamina. Oh and the armor she wears.
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I feel grateful for all those buff to Ibuki, now she can be playable for real and also looks like in paper a pretty good character. Raida EX and Kunai charge buff are awesome, and got EX charge is a godbless.
Now that we know how Ibuki is going to be, is time to relax and wait for season’s 2 coming <3
Funny enough one of the best buffs she got is a 38 frame jump. Ibuki finally has a relevant jumping game now. SFV is still going to be jump heavy especially with these AA jab and meterless DP nerfs so it’s good that we can finally jump without being almost free to react to with an AA. With the kunai reload/EX reload buff that’s going to allow a lot more options to change trajectory and use the air. Maybe glide to normal cancel might even have a use somewhere too.
f+HK is still really good. All they did was make it a bit less braindead on whiff. If you’re good at footsies it should be nearly impossible to whiff any way.
what worries me is ibuki got good, but many characters got stupid (urien, balrog, cammy etc)
yeah lol, urien and balrog are gonna be wtf tier
I’m not seeing balrog as that much different. He honestly didn’t get hard buffed but rather cleaned up a little in frames. Other than whatever potential he might have out of the new st.hp crush counter which we don’t know yet and cr.mp he didn’t changed much. Cr.mk hitting low is nice too but ok. The added +1 on his +2’s aren’t game changers. He’s just cleaner as opposed to being godly better.
The nastiest buffs that actually reflect heavily on a change in terms of serious tier flying are Guile, Urien, Ibuki, Juri. Those 4 legit got uber buffed.
Ken, Ryu, Karin got slight nerfed. Rather than getting demolished they really only got slight nerfed in terms of damage despite the knee jerk doom and gloom. Ken’s nerfs would actually be harder but the other two obnoxious spend 90% of your time jumping characters Cammy and Chun got their air shit blown up too and aa options got better in general so its moot. Chun got bodied tho and Cammy is roughly the same or slightly better. Nash got bodied too.
Honestly tier 1 looks like Guile. His shit looks extreme. Urien, Ibuki, and Juri will be up there too. Ken, Ryu, Karin, Cammy will still be within the stratosphere around top just maybe lower than those 4, maybe the same, maybe higher. Akuma is unknown cause well he ain’t out yet.
Yeah at this point Ibuki is either top tier or right under top tier. She would have been that way without the health buff. 3 bar V Trigger is the only thing that could somewhat justify the health buff with all of these buffs, but she has like top 3 or 4 V Skill in the game also any way. She could have used 950 in Season 1,. In Season 2 it’s basically just a luxury gift that lets her survive a little longer if the opponent gets too lucky with reads.
Her offense and ranged game will surely be powerful enough to justify 900 health as she’s basically a pixie character as is with a now relevant zoning game.
950 health plus poke nullifying V Skill means we’re going to have V Trigger and V Reversals pretty often.
Yeah the health buff came out of left field. So unexpected.
I’m pretty sure cr.lk, cr.lp, ex.kunai or kunai release is the highest damaging NH low confirm in the game as long as Karin still can’t chain her’s. Based on the notes st.mk tc, kunai reload should be -16 or less which should be a safe stock in a lot more situations now except ca’s or tools that reach. Ex raida frame 1 should mean Ibuki can go through Chun’s pesky kikoken blockstring now and even better for all FB characters. Will be a godsend vs Guile.
I’m just thirsty to test if there’s still hope for her cheap ass v-reversal. I honestly didn’t give a fuq about her v-trigger compared to her v-reversal especially against characters like Bison. Free setups all day against him.
The meter gain buff on raida’s is damn good too. But of course ex reload is still my favorite because now I can let Kunai release confirms fly more.
What type of kunai release confirms you using now?
I never personally thought EX raida was that useful (better off just pushing your way in than burning meter on something with iffy properties and throws people away), but I’ll be using it more now. With 2 meters you can blow them away and then EX reload to buff your kunais up.
I only use the lp.hold or hp.hold version and only if I have 5 or 6 so it actually makes sense to use it damage wise and I don’t have to tap into ex meter if I don’t want to. For the most part outside of the corner 4 or less requires ex raida to get the bulk of the damage. I only do it from single hit button confirms in neutral or shimmy or ch confirms like st.mp, cr.mp. In S2 i’ll be doing it from st.mk, st.mp NC as well. Sometimes CC situations too but very, very, rarely.
Ex raida was more character specific thany anything imo. I didn’t use it much either except against rashid, nash, ken, fang, and laura. Rashid can’t do mk, hk, or ex whirlwind block strings against Ibuki with raida. The lk version was a true blockstring so it didn’t matter. Ken’s FB blockstrings on block or decent spaced FB’s in neutral could be easily punished by ex raida since it was -10. It’s now -8 tho so yeah. Nash mk scythe I would punish rarely with raida more typically with ca since ca was relatively free vs mk scythe. Fang’s wall is easily punished by raida so I literally never used meter on anything but ex raida vs him. Laura’s slow ass fb’s are free to f.hk and ex raida mid to close range and kunai/ex kunai far to mid range.
With ex reload. If u want to optimized your damage output especially if you have another bar or even two in S2 you should do at least 1 full stock kunai confirm unless u prefer to waste them chucking the hoping for them to hit. I say this because you’d still have at least 3 upon reload for v-trigger confirms or ex kunai confirms. Btw hp raida, ex raida, into reload is at least -34 now so that idea of yours might not work safely outside of the usual passive opponent.
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I haven’t used Youtube for uploading anything in a very, very, long time but here’s a quick and dirty upload for visual context on how I use kunai release to get the idea.
The timing for her Kunai cross up off of sweep is weird now, gonna take some time to get used to it.
V-reversal got hard nerfed like everyone else. -1 after her new i16 dash against normal tech. st.mp, st.mk, st,mp on counter hit does indeed work only on crouchers. You have to delay throw by 1 frame after raida in corner now. CC st.hk dash st.mk, st.mp does indeed work so there was a typo in the notes if advantage was +14 and they added +7. Advantage was either +15 or they added +8. I’d add more but i’m sure u guys will want to have fun testing urself so this is just a few.
Off of any dp if they neutral quick rise, due to her faster dash st.mp hits on its last active frame which lets you link into another st.mp on non counter hit.
That always worked. Unless u mean st.mp into cr.mp which didn’t before.
You forgot Laura. I think only Urien might’ve been buffed more than her.
This all new shiny s.MK s.MP combo cannot be cancelled into Raida against standing characters (I tested it with Ryu and Urien) because it simply whiffs… Even after deep crossup or at the wall. And this promising CH s.MP s.MK s.MP link? Of course Raida whiffs. Even on crouchers.
Basically you have to burn meter to get some real damage or have another year of s.MP into s.LK.