to help you guys get a feel for how Shinjo plays, here are two videos from a recent tourney:
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Shinjo is playing rufus, and i’m playing chun.
Been killing Blankas lately in C-mode. Taking championships from them left and right on my roommate’s XBL.
Punishing blocked Ultras with SOS. Always EX Tornadoing lightning. All the good stuff.
The biggest two things that have been working are dive kicks as soon as he takes a step forward, and reacting to the slow Blanka Ball with jabs. It really cracks me up how some guys can’t believe that you are punishing the Blanka Ball. In the last championship, we both were about 10-7% health, and I’m walking backwards while we’re at opposite corners of the screen.
Me:Go ahead and do a blanka ball
(EX Blanka Ball)
Standing block. Low Fierce. Thanks for the CP.
Dummy.
Lucky. Input lag does not allow me to do that.
I don’t know if it’s been said before, but Guile has the same wonky standing hitbox as Gief and Boxer.
If you don’t mind me asking: For what?
for when you block blanka’s ultra. j.HK > lp snake strike/ex snake strike/ultra
edit–nevermind
Any vids of Rufus punishing a blocked Blanka Ultra?
I’ll put it up later today
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beat an 8000gp honda (wht’s w/all the high GP hondas?) in a pretty laggy match earlier (all spanish matches are hella laggy for some reason), anyway uploaded the replay so you can see how to punish headbutts w/cr.HP; it’s kinda the same timing as w/blanka balls exc. w/out the walk fwd. not my best match but shows tht punish, at least
it’s currently at 317 on the CP board (51882 points), so you can locate it if yr not on my fl
Sweet, thanks for that!!
I have been unable to punish blanka balls with anything at all unless Blanka was in the corner. Crouch fierce doesn’t seem to go far enough, though i didn’t try walking forward a bit before doing it…though I don’t think it will hit in time then.
So yeah, i’m having trouble with this matchup since some blanka beat me in G2 just spamming blanka balls. I did Ex Messiah on reaction but it does too little damage to be of use(only one hit connects).
are you blocking them standing? you have to if you want to punish w/cr.fierce
block standing, walk fwd a touch, cr.fierce; timing’s tight but once you have it down you’ll rarely miss it
don’t know if you can punish ex balls? I always try, the same way as normals, but never hit
No difference with EX Balls. Smashed another Blanka today using the same methods. Keep distance so he has no Fierce slide mixup. From far away, Blanka literally has no options to harm you. You can punish the slide, FA the overhead ball, punish the Blanka Ball. So his only recourse is to walk/dash forward. As soon as he falls for this, Dive Kick him and hit him with a combo, even if it’s just tick damage. So far, every single scrub Blanka I have played has fallen for this tactic.
Sure, they’ll try their stupid jab/medium ball tricks where they stop in front of you and slide or throw, but you just gotta train yourself to jab as soon as you see a non-fierce Blanka Ball.
Do this with the intent of walking him into the corner and it’s a wrap on scrub Blanka.
I’m not gonna say I have Blanka overall figured out, but it looks like a wrap on Scrub Blanka. It was really all about getting used to his stupid tricks. If you react to the short Ball nonsense, Scrub Blanka is flat out of options.
Woah this makes a difference?
Does it allow punishing Honda’s headbutts too? Need to test when I get home.
And no, I was crouch blocking them.
yup, check out the replay I posted up on xbl (details above); in rounds 2 and 3 I punish honda headbutts w/cr.HP. you don’t even need to walk fwd
Whats the deal with the Seth players these days all they do is sonic boom an J.FP you cant jump for shit or you get knocked out of FA its so annoying but it works well though. Anyone know how to play this match up?
Jump forward kick should beat that j.FP just fine.
Only fierce Headbutts are punishable though. Jab and Strong headbutts are 100% safe on block against Rufus, and a good player will mix them up with fierce headbutts then torpedo/super/ultra you out of your crouch fierce if you try to punish them.
thking u 