gouken could punish with dash forward low strong iirc
Maybe so, but his grab setups are ridiculous. Actually, there are a few instances from last night burned into my brain of a grab happy Blanka just walking up to me, me crouching to do lk xx lp.palm to stop his momentum, and him grabbing me from about middle of my leg. I’m assuming me sticking my leg out gives him more reach and he’s grabbing my leg? Then, once he has you trained to crouch tech because all he is doing is hop grab, crossup grab, lp. ball grab, Blanka can then mix up with electricity and blow up your tech. I really despise this match up. Some characters, even if they are not considered great or top tier or whatever, are just too hard to fight without a shoryuken. Seriously.
Blanka’s mixup with hops and grabs is like his 3rd tier mixup. You just need to learn to react better and you should late stand tech more.
Ahhh yes. I would love to be able to react better. I’ll take two helpings of that.
you can practice reacting to specific things, and try to get cued in on the early animation frames. I used to get hit by hop into grab a lot until I trained myself not to through training mode simulation.
Sorry for trying to be helpful.
Oh, no need for an apology. It’s easy to misread tone here. I was not being snarky, just jovial.
>.< wrong thread
That’s online blanka for you. Don’t even cr.tech just use cr.lp.
Maybe, I thought I tried it all but maybe not. I just resigned myself to accepting that I just made him burn a bar.
Just crouch block and have a finger on jab and jab him out of his hops. If it was offline u could react and mk x palm easily.
Offline this match isn’t that bad. Online I fucking hate it
3 years later I still don’t know this matchup, it’s seriously no fun. Not being able to jump, or throw fireballs at mid range sucks.
Yea, this and Abel are my 2 least favs. Closely followed by Fuerte
At least you guys don’t get unblockabled anymore
Gouken have command parry that activates on 0 frame. He is about the only character out there who doesn’t actually mind unblockable set up. Long as you know it is coming Gouken can parry it.
He knows that. You don’t know if it is coming though, all you know is the set up. If you kongo and he empty jumps he can Ultra you.
Wake Up focus lvl 1 is good against Fuerte.
After some more time online. Fuck this match in anyway but in person. The tiniest bit of lag always seems to not be in your best interest. Lag I wouldn’t even notice in other matches
Hey guys,
I’ve uploaded a Blanka match with added Tips for the matchup at the end.
Although I don’t think I punish everything I could have, I think the match is useful and the tips really much so.
But to be honest I need to take my own advice as this is probably one of the few matchups where, I wouldn’t say my knowledge is lacking but my implementation of said knowledge is lacking greatly.
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did blanka lose his setup on gouken or something?
lost it on both Gouken and Cody and it’s harder on other characters.