I’m convinced he’s S2 Chun. Except his pokes are even safer, his throw range is good and he has tick throws out of everything. Oh and for some weird reason he still gets to be 0 in your face after a V-Reversal.
It’s a 4-6 at least.
It’S kinda ridiculous, ranked is Urien after Urien for me. Does he have any really bad matchups? Going to start counterpicking at this point.
I hate his ex reversal so much. Especially that you can’t neutral jump it, it’s harder to punish in general and he gets to combo it on hit and gets oki after. Isn’t it being invincible enough? Lol. I still win a fair amount against him but it’s only because I know they like to abuse it so I play super lame.
I could rage every time I see DevilJin posting that his EX headbutt is the worst reversal in the game and whatever, nobody gets hit by it etc.
You’ll learn to defend it in time
So much hate mail today.
“Waaaah, 50/50’s,waaah”
“You’re just winning because gimmicks”
“You play a braindead char”
No, you can’t just hold down back and mash Shoryuken when you get scared. #sorrynotsorry
People are putting Laura as S tier and even top 5…w…t…f…?
I even had an Ultra Platinum Chun player message me a day ago that Laura is cheap and too safe…EXCUSE ME BUT WHAT THE FUCKING HELL DID WE GO THROUGH LAST SEASON???
This just solidifies the fact that the top 8 knew that they had way too many options and safe movesets to steamrole everyone else. Now that they have to play like the rest of us and by the games rules its now Laura is overpowered and braindead. The hell man we still gotta work our asses off to make sure we stay in the game because of her fatal flaws! We’re finally just viable now!
I barely get any messages. Admittedly I lose more than I win but I’ve pulled off some lucky and potentially rage-inducing mixup comebacks.
Still predict the hate switching to Urien, Ibuki, Balrog and Guile down the line. Urien and Guile have incredible stalling ptential which is frustrating for a lot of people while Ibuki and Balrog have the same steamrolling capabilities Laura has but are arguably harder to pin down.
Some people actually bothered to learn the matchup in S1 so they don’t have similar problems with Laura players now.
So for all people struggling with Bonita :
-Learn and respect the meaty setups (Laura can make lp meaty +1 after a connected hp bolt for instance).
-Don’t mash backdash all the time after lp bolt hits
-Be ready to quick rise when Laura is in trigger and goes for empty ex.clap shenanigans
-Stand block and punish meaty overheads
And the list goes on.
^ also learn footsies and stop letting her get in for free.
Lol I’ve been telling everyone that literally all Laura’s moves are safe except for sweep and M Bolt since like last February, but nope. Only now is it a “problem” because they can’t get out of jail free, and because they made our command throws 5f like everyone else.
Preach. There are definitely branching meaties you can use, but the “one weird trick to mess with Laura players” is to 1. not quickrise and 2. mix up your rises. If we have to guess how you’re going to rise, that changes the meaty landscape completely. The only person who’s braindead here is the one who keeps quickrising after command throw and so get caught in L Bolt > Sunset loops…
It’s bad if they don’t quick rise only if you go for the EX command grab. On every other scenario it’s super easy to meaty a st mp and be like +5/6 or more instead of the usual +1/2
Not to mention slow rise allows for crazy clap shenanigans and corpse hopping!
I would say it’s super easy to meaty a smp no matter what. You don’t need a set up if you have practiced your meaty timing, just walk up and push the button
Scrub question because I’m too cheap to buy Akuma and test:
Does 6HP work as a punishment when you block his CA when you’re just outside of sweep range? I’ve been punishing with lp bolt and I feel like I should be able to get more mileage out of baiting that.
F hp by itself won’t reach even if you are point blank and he’s in the corner. You can f vskill and hit a cr hp xx whatever though.
You can not go through the pillar with ex command grab, nor with ex elbow
Thanks!!!
not sure if this was covered anywhere but you can ex elbow if rashid activates vtrigger from far but within ex elbow range
Just ex elbow when you see the vtrigger flash
It’ll hit him before he can even let the vtrigger out
except the tip of ex elbow, that would be too far
Can anybody give some pointers on M Bison? I know the answer is block, block, block… but I don’t know how to punish this guy.
Challenge blocked scissors with St jab. LK is safe but - 2 so it’s your turn. Psycho inferno is very punishable on block. Bait and punish a blocked sweep by walking back and forth from a fair distance (usually works at least once) and HP bolt every non ex stomp. You can definitely catch the ex at the right distance, it’s riskier, though.