Ken General Thread: Go with the Flow

From Olivio1994’s twitter

Nevermind you can cross-up but you just can’t get anything - I think. Maybe EX DP?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2i6gKJMohc i did test his cross up tatsu. You might be able to get a cr.lp after possibly on counter hit or something.

I see a lot of Twitter posts from FGC people saying that Ken is ass.

I think they’re wrong. V-Skill is bad I agree, as are his poke ranges. Apart from that he’s solid, nothing like SF4 Ken and more similar to 3S with short and snappy confirms into damage, but he’s not exactly 3S Ken either.

Whatever though, if people want to think he’s ass they can. I just feel as though he’s strong as he is, V-Skill really needs something though, at least max spacing to be safe.

I think his vskill needs to be overhauled for advantage or something. Right now its like your giving your opponent the advantage immediately.

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Hmmmmm having issues nailing that link after run

Edit: got the timing down pretty nice

s.HP runcancel TC? the b+mp comes out earlier than you might think. some of his stuff feels surprisingly tight.

good ken combos are a little tough. thankfully they are easier than some slightly harder, worse combos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4ZosltA-ZA

i think ken is good. MP dp VT is 200 damage meterless. (yes it is unsafe on block)

so you can get s.HP run cancel c.mp > target combo too. I’m really sucking at these links tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdOntNa1vIs

I’ve gotten LP DP and EX DP to work after the cross up.

Having a bit of trouble linking anything after the run though.

Edit: All DPs seem to work after the cross-up.

Interesting I had never read ior noticed that a crouching fierce crush counter sends opponents up for a juggle if you let him fall a bit you can hit him with super kind of like abels cr hp into u1

I dunno if its old but u can combo CA after a low tatsu.

That’s some good info, that seems easily confirmable too. Thanks for testing that out I’m away from console at the minute

Saw this while testing around CCing DPs. Was pretty hilarious.

VT mode, sHP run crMP is really hard and not worth it in long combos (scales damage down)

im getting it down pretty consistently now

What makes that combo hard? Does the run shut off the input buffer and force a true link?

ken is so sick in this game
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Here’s the EX DP from a Cross Up:

probably, cuz it’;s fucking hard lol