Bump… this is too good to be forgotten about!
Chun’s Hazanshu can now be raw launched by all characters. There’s also some low moves that can only be launched by certain characters (seems to be the same list of characters that could launch Hazanshu in 2012). Some launchers completely whiffs on super low moves like Dhalsim’s double zoom and Juri/Cody’s crMK (there’s probably others), so these guys can empty jump low for free without worrying about raw launchers.
It’s stupid that I have to counterpick Dhalsim with Gief just because he’s the only character I play that can launch his limbs.
Cody’s crouching knife attacks (crLP/crMP/crHP) are all considered “standing” attacks due to Capcpom forgetting to set them as crouching properly. So advantage: none of them can be hit low crushed by launchers. Disadvantage: everything else, any attack that gets bonuses for hitting standing (such as certain overheads.) or moves that are tagged to not hit crouching (like King’s Giant swing or Guile’s backfist or Cody’s crack kick) can hit him at ANY point during the move (Startup,active, and recovery.)
so wait. . I can raw launch both of Asuka’s overhead moves, both I can’t launch her standing low medium kick thing?
Am I reading this right?
Only Asuka’s Tsuwabaki overhead has a crouching state in it. Something I failed to mention in my previous post is that that particular move is in a standing state at the beginning of the active frames, but then it changes to crouching. In other words, you can only low crush it if it’s hitting meaty.
Lars’ EX cross-up move that crumples. I just raw launched it by accident. It’s possible that I hit him before the attack was active but it was pretty late in the animation so I don’t know…
Too bad the move is nearly impossible to react to online lol.
EDIT: Yup, it was definitely a low crush. Kinda useless though because if you can react with Launcher then you can react with fierce or block and punish haha. Plus if they do the K follow up then launcher loses.
Raw launcher is a better option in some situations. Let’s take Chun’s Hazanshu. The lk version is -2 on block and therefore hard to punish. The other versions have 0 frames of advantage on block. If you know that Chun is going for it, then launcher is definitely better.
Hwoarang
Last hit on Hunting Hawk is an Overhead, but can be Raw Launched.
Vega
the b, f+p move is called rolling crystal flash
That’s pretty sick. That could help counter the tag cancel mixup.
I don’t know if you can technically raw launch Abel’s stepkick, but you can react to the pause before the forward dash and punish with a raw launcher I believe.
This thread is amazing I just started looking n2 low crushes a couple of weeks ago after getting hit by sagats St.mk over n over Jim’s St.mk crushes lows
I did not know swaying willow could be raw launched same with his right roundhouse punch. That’s awesome. That practically makes MA very limited on his wake-up since you can probably OS with a launcher. Damn Jin’s defense really does suck.