I play as ryu and when I play matches online people always jump at me, I cant seem to react or predict it, its starting to frustrate me. I have tried to change the time of my fireballs even to the point of not throwing firballs. Has anyone got any advice or could help me please, it would be very much appreciated.
Most like you’re throwing fireballs at ranges where your opponents are able to react to it and jump to punish it. Predicting is usually a bad strategy to go with. It’s far better you learn the ranges and timing where your opponent’s don’t have obvious punishes to your actions.
If they’re just randomly jumping at you, you’ll have to learn how to anti-air properly. Check the stickied posts in this section for more info on that.
The best thing you can do is learn to anti-air correctly. Using your Dragon Punch/Shoryuken with Ryu is very fundamental to the character. Don’t use it without purpose, which is a mistake a lot of beginner’s make, but use it well and you will put fear into a lot of opponents. My normal advice for aspiring Ryu mains is to keep doing DPs until they figure out how to anti-air well. However, if you are getting really frustrated with people jumping in on you and just want it to stop until you’re better at DPing, his crouching fierce should still be really good against the level of players you play against.