I absolutely hate that to. That’s why I sometimes quit/stop playing people if I see they mash. [Today I fought someone who mashed through my jabs like four times, and mashed a super between to on player M. even if he is pretty good] On ranked and other modes you come across that A LOT. That’s the only thing that really turns me off in this game, mashers. Most of the times its not even linkage, but just online, and just the fact that not everything links. [Thats literally the only thing, the easy DP counters. If they fixed that this game’d be perfect to me]
Although yea your links need to be tighter, but online tends to mess it up. Dp is VERY fast, and can counter/reversal very easily so you have to be carefull. I got the jab jab shoryuken 100% down, but if I see people mash I sometimes don’t even try it. Just adapt to it.
Try to fight 4 bars, 3 bars is ok but it can sometimes screw it up to. Or practice your links over, cause I mostly don’t have problems doing it even on 3 bars.
Air tatsu I know what you mean. But that’s cause of the spinning/timing. its the same with my normal tatsu crossup, if I start it a bit late it basiclly just misses and a free grab. If I start it a bit earlier it always hits.
Experiment / feel when you should start your tatsu, not to high/far cause the hits will run out before you land.
Damn I gotta meet new good players, ima start challenging some people. I won like 30 times in a row, on ranked, player and champ mode in the morning. Its hard finding good players just randomly online, I gotta meet some kens that are way better then me to learn new things =D
Side note: Zangief is my number 1# hated char. Lol
Yea when I started, my hate chars where blanka and balrog. Balrog felt like a powerhouse/tank to me. But I learned the matchups and in time he becomes fun to play against.
Focus gets most of his dash punches, baiting out a headbutt is a free punishment as well [Cr. Medium kick dodges his headbutt, and it gives you a counter hit whenever he goes for something else I noticed]. His ultra to headbutt doesn’t do that much damage. Hes not that bad, although I never met a real good balrog (That’s with any char for the matter)
Although good balrogs tend to be very hard yea. I still hate blanka though : D
And been working on those links lately, really loving it, been trying to use them none stop after recorded fights with slimz. On crumple, I tend to go for Cr.Lp x 2, st. Lp, cr. Mk, ex tatsu for practice tooo. And kaarraa throw mixxups.
Is guuuud. And yea I can fight you to Dunskie =D
GT: Ssjbryando, we could play some =] AS LONG AS YOU DON’T MASH lol jk
Yeah links are kinda my best friend in sf4 right now… i tend to use all of kens bnb links now that i’m more familiar with them. and im beginning to use c.forward>hado>ex fadc c.forward>ex tatsu/fierce Srk. Standing/crouching, and if im real close to them after the Fadc i’ll link c.lk, c.lp, c.lp, f.srk, fadc>Ultra if its necessary to ultra
yeah i’ve been looking over our matches bryan and i must admit we’ve both improved from what i’ve seen from our set today. gg’s
Positive rep plz i didnt think i deserved to lose rep for chanting, but i accept my punishment and i’ve learned my lesson. so please anyone in the position to give give me positive. rep plz do so. i don’t like those 5 evil bars
Yea I saw you suddenly use Hadoken fadc and tatsu crossup to, I started using that like a week or two ago I think. Mostly works if they got little damage leeft [And just catches them of guard so many ways : D]. Crouch links are still my hardest though, except for jab jab, but I gotta work on my jab jab cr.medium. Even though it works in training. And yea the quick set was cool, although nothing I mostly use works on you cause you block well and know where I attack lol
And yea cool duskie lol sorry : D
Oh well, Ill get there, really want a stick for regular kara-throws though. That seems so cool. I can only do it after a Cr.Medium consistently on pad
And Yea I got like 1 red bar to. I forgot the reason. I think the dude posted ‘‘Fail : )’’
yeah i think the red bars are the kens welcoming us Lol. all jokes aside we’ll be getting repped up in no time
umm on topic though yes fadc combo’s will catch other players off gaurd most of the time and if it doesn’t… well at least you looked cool wasting your meter =] lol. but it can put you in a nice place offensively. links are all about your rhythm though, at least that’s how i deal with them. c.lk, c.lp, s.lp, c.mk, EX tatsu is a wnderful thing btw =D.
but get at me duskie I’m usually online all the time. until my semester starts at least
You are training your links with the training mode option of autoguard on, right? my game is in spanish so I don’t know the exact name but it’s the guard option that makes the dummy cover after every attack that does’t either combo or link.
If someone is constantly trying to SRK you in your combos/blockstrings, let them! Intentionally break your combo/blockstring and block. Watch them fly into the air and punish!
I do that a lot actually, and counter when they miss a shoryuken. My ground links arn’t THAT consistent, and sometimes you can mash a shoryuken after a cr.B > hadoken (before the hadoken hits) [Ground blockstring] I think slimz did that to me a while back, or G77 a lot, so I just stopped using that and began countering.
You just have to adapt. Although the worse prob is the people that actually know when to do it, or don’t do it everytime on purpose, so you wouldn’t know. But its all good.
You just have to live with it =D I must say though, that 80% of the Ryu’s/Kens I meet are waay to shoryuken happy. But it is a VERY good special, prob one of the best, it has a few frames startup, good priority, fast, and it doesn’t even recover that slow either.
Edit: Damn slimz you went from a 4 bar red, to a 3 bar green nice!
[If only someone could do that to me…HINTHINT] lol jk
Lmao i never noticed that until u said something about my bars. :bgrin:
but on topic. if you’re very, very aggresive(but in control of course) u can kind of tell when some will try and mash a srk through your block strings, thats when you pause your string and wait for the whiffed srk. and punish like its no tmrw at least do that until your comfy with your links. (i still bait out srks during my block strings not all the time though. i try and guess when they’ll go for it.)
lol jk
