Ling Xiaoyu Thread

Ling seems like (for now) a really good secondary character for a tag in. So who would be the better point character? Vega or Kaz?

Team synergy isn’t hugely important to this game, there are primary and secondary specializing characters, and you just have to pair the two, or not lol, your choice. I use Chun’s because I like the 2 of them together, and Chun’s lightning legs are good because they keep them grounded. I know someone else on these forums uses Ibuki with Xiaoyu too. Hwaorang also has been paired with her. I would think other good options would be Ken, Vega, Steve, Law, and maybe even Kazuya.

All because they had to give him a vortex… le sigh.

SO MUCH is going to revolve around her far st.MP

I promise this.

Call me stupid, but what is his vortex?

TOSTADA! TOSTADA! TORTIIIILLA! SLIDE! THROW! CROSSUP! FAJITA! GORDITA! TACOS!

Yup Xiaoyu is screwed if she becomes Elf -___-

Fuerte’s biggest problem was his low damage output, even taking his RSF into account. It doesn’t look like Xiaoyu will have that problem. By that alone, she’ll probably be way more solid.

True, considering her big combos are on tag in, with 3 bars a Xiaoyu and her partner can do over half life of someone, and with damage scaling, that is great.

Oso, what system are you getting it for?

I’m on 360, but like I’ve said before, I won’t be available until Wednesday night at the earliest.

Is she a link heavy character and are her links hard to do? I’m asking this because I play with a pad and I’m not good at linking.

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I’m with this guy.
Can I do lots of damage without heavy links?

The links are said to be considerably easier than SF4’s. Links are going to part of every character so you best get your timings down.

When I get my hands on the game, I’m gonna make a list of which normals can link into what based off the frame data AND what’s possible in game.

She has a high execution barrier, that is for damn sure. Much higher than average.

Fortune cookie --> dark n stormy feels like a 1 or 2 frame link.

we REALLY need someone to post her frame data from the guide, I’m sick of groping around in the dark here.

I don’t know how much of the frame data I should be putting online because people should be supporting the guide but yes HP Fortune cookie to dark n stormy is a 1 frame link

edit: and her dive kicks are safe on block +13 other than her ex which is -1

You tease. :nono:

I fully intend to get the guide, I went in today to get it with this gift card I’ve had since xmas but the store didn’t have it in yet. So I get to wait.

feel free to ask some q’s and I’ll answer some w/ dat guide knowledge

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Finally a combo video with Xiaoyu!

The only one frame links I could do constantly were Rose’s in SF4. Hopefully I will be able to do Xiaoyu’s this time.

Has anyone played Xiao at all online? How are you dealing with her wakeup game? She has no good reversals really, and it’s super easy to pressure her. Also, what are some good/safe ways to get in and create pressure with Xiao? I know her qcf+kicks is safe when blocked, as well as her qcf+punch when blocked, but they aren’t very fast moves and she doesn’t seem to have ways to traverse ground very easily.

I’ve messed around with some stuff for AA as well, but having trouble finding consistent AA moves. Cr.Fierce is okay for some stuff, but gets stuffed very easily. Phoenix Kick or whatever seemed like it would be good, but it’s got a slow startup if you aren’t already in phoenix stance.