Just ran long sets vs a player who mains Chun and Karin. Those matchups are borderline unwinnable if the opponent is on point. Necalli can’t do anything vs those characters. Gonna have to pick up another character for those matchups. Probably Bison.
The matchup vs Karin is not as bad as people think. The is to try and walk Karin into the corner. Secure a knockdown, bait the wakeup reversal, punish accordingly.
Game is a couple of weeks old and you are declaring a matchup unwinnable? C’mon now. A matchup being hard doesn’t make it unwinnable, especially with a character like Necalli, who has so many options.
Karin you have options. With no meter her anti-air sucks. When she tries to counter your StHK with sweeps and forwards, you can jump at her from the midrange. If she tries to counter your jumps with normals, you can divekick and fuck her up. Her reversal options are extremely limited with no meter. You can check her normals from outside her forward range with stLP. You need to get in the range where she can’t forward you at will and the matchup swings in your favour. Gotta take advantage of the damage you can deal.
I don’t have enough Chun experience to comment on that, but I image V-reversal into pressure is an option against all her safe nonsense. Any fireball should be knocked down with Vskill.
I dunno how new this is to anyone, but did you guys know how crappy it is that Chun low-profiles Necalli’s dp?
It’s insane. Even when Chun is just crouching, Necalli’s dp whiffs on her just out of point blank range (even EX dp!). And of all moves hat Chun can use to low profile, the dumbest instance has to be her overhead:
If you try to dp her overhead on reaction, it completely whiffs! Try it out! It has a long startup, so whenever I saw it coming I would react with a dp and by the time it comes out Chun is starting to come down with her leg, and you just fly right through.
Call me a whiner, call me a quitter, I’m already coming up with pocket characters for times when there’s too many Chuns, the match-up is worse than anything I remember from SF4 aside from vanilla Seth vs Zangief or maybe Bison vs Guile.