The two people I have the most problems with are Bison and Balrog. I need help with them SERIOUSLY.
um… i’m not exactly great at this matchup as it’s hard to find good sakura’s online and idk of anyone local who specializes with her.
but i’m gonna take a stab at this question. other than the extremly obvious that’s pointed out below me you gotta be very carefull with your fireball game when sak gets meter because the minute you get to predictable you will eat EX otashi to the face. once you have convinced the sakura that it’s not in their best interest to stay at long range you gotta be on point with late srk AA’s (her odd jump in angle tends to throw off early srk timing and trades/stuffs them a lot). from there it’s really just a game of seeing who lands their nasty mix-ups first, both are very dangerous in close so as ken you don’t want to be so over-aggressive that you give up the advantage, and you don’t want to be so laid back that you never take the advantage from sakura.
the main danger obviously from sakura is her ex tatsu launcher, which she can combo into from her light attacks so i generally try to either stay just out of her light range (which is ideal for cr.mk) unless i’m in a combo or see a opportunity to kara-throw.
personally i have more problems with defensive sakura’s that keep me out of cr.mk range because she can stuff forward mk fairly easily, but it’s mainly due to my lack of patience. as for aggressive sakura’s it either goes that they mix me up in reset hell or i slaughter them for coming too close to me hap-hazardly.
a little too obvious i think but good points non-the-less.
this may be off topic but i faced a highlulu in uncharted 2 demo, would you happen to under that name on psn? i think i heard you make fun of my name
nope, i’m not on ps3… but WTF someone ganked my name? this name has allways been original. now i gotta go on a witch hunt to find the imposter!
yeah it probably is way too obvious even to post
my win % against sakura is like 87% so I don’t even think about it most of the time, just play on instinct
that said, the best player I’ve played on PC is a sak player… when my main was sagat he would double perfect me all the time–I never took more than half his health in any match. so, yeah, my sak strategy probably does need refining 
I’ve been lazy, I will get back to updating soon. The announcement of SSF4 threw me off track and stuff.:blah::blah:
^Lies!
Thanks for the insight guys! This is very well written and should aid us back at the sakura forums.
so how many of u guys spam srk’s
I spam SRK all day and all night long. It’s the only way to play Ken.
dude, shut up.
lazy bastard…
Wow, Reaper, you’re a rude son of a b*tch.
I main Ken, btw. No need to be ass a*shole.
any advice on how to beat viper? the flame kick spammers always beat me cuz i dnt knw the matchup lol
It’s not the matchup confusing you, at least based off what you’re saying. It’s the direction which you should be blocking. It is tricky, but once you learn which kick they’re doing, you’ll be blocking the majority.
Can we also help with matchups? Normal members, I mean? Cause there’s a crapload of matchups missing…
ggs last night EmoKiddIsEmo. It was laggy and I made some dumb excuses but no really you are a great Ken and I’m sure without lag it would have been all the more spectacular!
I was thinking about what you said about getting that one big opening. I realised that so far my game in G2 has always been to wait for a mistake e.g. whiffed srk or flash kick. Apart from that the only time I go offensive is when they are waking up. I need to learn to create the openings you are talking about but I’m not sure exactly how to do that. 
Keep this nonsense where it belongs. What an asinine question. Don’t be an idiot. We ALL spam SRKs dumbass. :rolleyes:
You shut up and stop cluttering up the match-up thread. If you must be a knuckle dragging jerk, do so in a PM or in one of the stupid “Hey guyz don’t you think Ken is way better than everyone else/overused/awesome/under rated threads.”
Try focusing that ish man.
SRK all day, baby!
No worries, Chaos. We know you’ll get with it. You’re busy taking celebrity status picks with Ono and whatnot. 
Just re-read the Balrog write ups… I forgot how much I loved this thread.
Burning Kicks are pretty safe, but can be punished if you know how. You can low foward in some situations to make the Viper whiff the Burning Kick completly. That only works on Super Jump canceled ones. Some players BK after your block string so they can counter your throw/kara throw. If they become to predictable, Fierce SRK x FADC x Ultra (full) for big damage.
^Joey!