i wouldn’t advise the os tech, if they don’t go for a throw your gonna be sticking out a lk which they can beat with a simple block string. other than that i agree with everything else.
honestly.do what evry u waqnt after any tatsu,they only way there string will beet urs is it they time it perfect, and the fear of being srkd after is always there so if they hesitate and u dnt u win.remember after tatsu evrything is a guess from both parties
looking to help the ken army level up, if u play ken and want to spar,add me up.ill add people till my list is full
sicx i didnt know you were on psn right on. i’ve got a decent conn to cali. i’ll add you when i get home today
need some kens from the east coast…
I tried to play against sicx, it was horrible ;[
sry man i’m pretty far west too. sicx got the right idea though, I havent thrown my name out there in a while but if anyone wants some demo’s or explanations of things i’ve gone over in the forums here throw me a msg. I’m up for sparring too
Prorook add me on xbox, I’m on the east coast and I believe I have a decent Ken. I also wouldn’t mind sparring with fellow ken players.
Sicx66 alright I will add you up mine is plemmel.
Didn’t think this warranted a new thread, so i’m asking this here.
Countless times I’ve seen other people with other characters use a Focus Attack as an Anti-Air so i was just wondering if this was a viable option for Ken as well? Most of the times I’ve tried, it ends up backfiring on me. Now I’ve heard that Ken’s FA is ass compared to others (something about it being slow or something right?) so is it not working because of that or is it because i suck and i’m just not doing it right?
I’ve never been able to pull it off even if they jump in with an attack. On the other hand my friend ALWAYS does it to me. I’m thinking it depends how deep they do the attack because I always go for max so that if they srk it will trade at least. It is pretty slow anyways. Use it for attacks that people don’t do deep (Sagat’s elbow for example) and not attacks like jump in hk. You can focus backdash though which will get you out of the throw/blockstring/shoryuken situation you are about to face.
Prorook you don’t have a PS3 do you? This whole x360/ps3 situation splits the user base too much then this whole east/west and north/south thing. Dammit.
I’m on the east coast of Canada baby. Salty roads and snow storms ftw.
if some 1 jumps at u. u should srk, focus will b broken if they srk.kens focus suk. big chracters like sagat can anti air with focus if u hitm high up. characters like chun can fa then backdash and make ur srk wiff but ken canot do this cuz his focus suks.so if they jump srk
newp, I played on pc only until like a month ago. Started playing on my xbox to fight some new people…dont have a ps3 though.
Aight, thanks for the help lilsicx66 and crazed!
Is it possible to use the jab shory and have the ultra still land? I’m having difficulty with the fierce shory because I keep canceling off the first hit. Also, Is it just me, or is Ken one of the harder characters to incorporate his ultra?
I can land Ryu’s perfectly but I’ve never been a Ryu player…
When you`re Ryu, landing ultra is like 9/10… Sagat is 8/10… Balrog (boxer) is 10/10… Ken is 6/10 for half his ultra and 3/10 for his full ultra… imo at least…
Simple question: Does anybody besides me bait with well-spaced lp srk whiffs? I’m pretty sure this was at least mentioned before, but I dunno if its common practice for Ken players. A whiffed shoryu sort of forces your opponent to approach you so that once you land he can punish, but if the spacing is right you can fp or ex shoryu punish him since startup for that is likely faster than a throw or anything else they would do.
some people do that. i know scrubby people do 2 lp dps in consecutive order as if to catch me off guard.
speaking of DPs and scrubs, Some *** as giving me a hard time with Headstomps from Dic. I keep trying to dp that, but if he already reaches his apex then he stuffs it, if I do a psychic dp then it’ll get him because he hasn’t reached the height of the jump… but this guy continuously spams headstomps and I don’t got a clue as to beating it. UB roundhouse doesn’t work at far screen, and moving up either meant an untechable throw due to lag, or scissor kick, or psycho crusher. There isn’t much i can do against his headstomps is there?
Is there a general consensus on which finger placement is optimal for the kara throw?
I press the forward kick button with the first joint of my middle finger, roll my hand forward a little for the split second timing differential. I than Press jab+short with my index finger, and thumb respectively.
Thanks.
Try timing your backdashes or mixing it up by using FA to absorb the initial hit and try to see how he responds after that… But if it`s as laggy as you say it is then the solution may not be as simple as that…
I dunno if this is what everyone else does, but I hit mk with my ring finger and lk and lp with my index and middle fingers respectively.