Ok, that’s good to know. I tend to underestimate its speed.
lk vanity step>punch goes through juri fireballs and should punish its release. in theory.
aside from that…Vega normals maul me all day every day. i hate that match up. his normals stuff everything she does and trying to counter is too hard on reaction. only thing that seems to work is st. mp.
i tried to find any video of a good poking vega vs a good kolin but i found nothing. nothing of any learning the match up value. only vids i found were of matches from months ago before all the good vegas figured out that all they have to do is keep hitting buttons against her from a distance.
god damn her stubby normals mang.
back when i still had my ps4, i’d just look at the top players of my character on the CFN leaderboards and go through all their ranked match replays to see how they approach matchups. one of the few good SFV features lol
theoretically kolin can v reversal Birdie’s chain and hit him with critical art. just a heads up. i havent done it yet hence the theory part. but you should be able to do it. you can also v reverse a fireball so the shotos should be hit with their hadoken animation but i am not sure since i think its shorter recovery than chain since birdie chain recovery animations are really long. he should be wide open.
Can she connect only CA? Will she be in range for st.LK to connect? It’s also 5 frames.
i guess if you are close enough.
so i just came back from training mode. with recording the dummy Birdie to do chain.
critical connects after you v reversal his chain as long as you time and space it properly, the timing is tighter than i thought. but you will know that it connects when your critical activates while you can still see the writing on Birdie’s back of his jacket. or else he’ll block it.
i also tested to see if Kolin’s overhead is airborne or not by using ex high counter against it. as you know, high counter counters airborne attacks like ibuki’s overhead…nope.
even if kolin’s overhead looks airborne its not.
only mid counter works. so no airborne frames on her overhead.
lastly, tested to see if she could ex counter vega’s critical.
impossible. she wont do it.
i did ex high counter at different timing and ex high counter doesnt work.
good news though is v skill does work. you have to go to training mode to get an idea of the timing.
you should be hitting v skill right before he touches the wall.
anything after is too late.
later yall
so i just found out first hand you can high counter dragon punches.
its a mystery to me which special moves you can counter and which you cant. i thought any physical attack can be countered except fireballs and command grabs/throws.
then i find out she wont high counter vega’s critical.
so its a mystery which special moves that are physical attacks can be countered. because i thought maybe dps couldnt be but yeah they can.
omg.
next time someone mashes an akuma or ken ex dp…yunno how they do double dp when ex’ed?..motherfuckers expect to get that 2nd dp to get ex high countered.
just cuz.
edit.
maybe its just criticals that she cant counter.
You can high counter Rashid’s Eagle Spike, Ibuki’s overhead and Akuma’s f.hp.
Wally
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I’ve tried high counter against Akuma’s f.hp and got punished. You mean mid?
Maybe it’s mid but I thought I high countered it lol
You can also high counter Rashid EX spinning mixer.
Also Chun’s f.mk is a high counter as well for some reason.
I think you can counter it high while he is still high in the air. After he descends you have to counter him mid.
f.MK isn’t a thing, but f.HK needs to be countered high because she’s airborne during the active frames.
that’s what I mean lol sorry I don’t play chun but I knew you could high counter f.hk.
against alex, intentionally do st. fierce into ex mid counter against his parry v trigger. he will parry your fierce and you counter his attack. practice it.
mykka
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Abigail seems like he’ll be a nightmare for Kolin tbh
has anyone played against him yet?
i havent gone online yet.
maybe tonight i will.
tho everyone is a beginner with him right now. wonder how tough he’ll be once he has been figured out.
Yeah, i guess it’s a bit early to conclude. But i thought he would be slower and with less range. But i haven’t played against him yet.
Hailstorm set-ups for the most part don’t work on him because his hitbox is bigger. They hit him earlier than other characters, meaning you lose a lot of frames and can’t, for example, do combos that start with a button -> combo into hail -> continue. This would only work if he’s crouching but not blocking but nobody does that.
On the other hand he has quite a few moves that are rather telgraphed and can easily be countered or V-Skilled. Hard to say how the matchup evolves, but Hailstorm is more of a zoning tool here than a set-up.
Also f.MK breaks armor quite well on runs and from afar. And it’s possible to combo on counterhit.
Abigail sweep is pretty hard to deal with … it’s way too fast and negates her zoning.
He has so much life, my bread and butter only tickles him
