^ Yea same here. Thanks and shout outs to all the ken players around here. I’m far from being the best Ken around, but i often get people complimenting my Ken anyway. I know that wouldn’t have been possible if it weren’t for the vast support I’ve received from this community. Ken army, keep kicking ass!
I would also like to thank everyone that has helped me thus far, and will continue to help me… thank you all 
Hey all!
I haven’t been playing Ken vary long, a little in super turbo. I didn’t play any third strike. Played Chun in vanilla, dropped her cuz I suck. Played a little Akuma in super, and been playing Ken for a month or so. I really suck ass at street fighter 4, I lose to the worst shit ever. I sometimes think SF4 isn’t for me. Online is unplayable most of the time. Anyway, enough complaining, anyone feel like playing some good matches, I would be more than willing to be anyone’s sparing partner. I’m sick of random bullshit online.
XBOX 360 tag - S CAMPBELL
I’m from Ottawa Canada
Sorry for the late reply Je83, but yeah on stick I put my ring finger on mk, thumb on lk and middle on lp :x lol this is how I do it, middle on lp feels more comfortable than index on lp, see if it feels better for you too.
I am a pad player, but recently started using stick because am gonna try AE soon. I use madcatz fight pad and I use my thumb for mk>mk+lk+lp, and input shows mk+lk plinked with mk+lk+lp.
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Guys I just tried kara back throw and it is possible, but extremely hard to do.
I’ve played you before! And your akuma was really good too. Feel free to add me for matches.
iv been tryna use ken OH’s and i realize that the inazuma(think it’s call that) stops alot of the opp’s moves on wake up.
I apologize if this has been mentioned somewhere in this thread already, but as the thread is 60 pages long…I was hoping someone could give me the run down of Ken’s bread and butter combos. What are the ones that every Ken starting out should know? Thanks.
First page of this thread is all you need.
Ok, I thought it might be outdated. Thanks!
Ugh… How do you deal with people that focus attack on wake up and back-dash like a madman? I’m having big trouble against Rose’s and Chun-Li’s who do this.
Cr. mk xxx EX hadoken or EX Tatsu. At least thats what I use to do. It usually caught them.
Is Dragon Boy alive? I miss his Ken.
Hm… If you jump in, what should you do? On their wake up, of course.
Are they FA’ing and backdashing still?
Ken I believe has a dope Option Select for Backdashers. I think it is J. hk, QCB + lk ~ mk, lp.
~ = plink
The j. hk hits the focus armor once and if they backdash, EX tatsu will come out, if they still hold armor after they absorb a hit, lk comes out and you can follow up with a lp.
Not exactly sure how the OS works, but its something like that.
Unfortunately Option Selecting doesn’t work against Focus Attack Backdash.
If your opponent is just doing backdash, you can OS Ken’s fierce DP. This will catch even Chun Li’s backdash if you OS it behind a jump in. If you time it to perfection it can sometimes even beat her reversal EX Spinning Bird Kick, but it’s extremely tight.
I’d recommend OS sweep or OS fierce DP when she has no meter and just opt for the Safe Jump when she has meter to bait and punish the EX SBK (6 frame start-up. Can be punished with full U2 and possibly full U1 on block).
If someone is FA Backdashing, this negates any kind of OS you input and it won’t come out. You really have to pre-empt the backdash and try to catch them with a normal combo as they recover from the backdash.
Sometimes going for the cross-up will cause a FA backdasher to dash incorrectly straight into the rest of your combo for big damage. Ken’s ambiguous jump in fierce punch is especially useful here.
Spacing your jump in correctly so that it looks like you’re threatening the cross-up is sometimes enough to stop someone from using FA backdash and then from there you can resume your wake-up pressure as normal.
Bear in mind that FA backdash is executionally much harder than just a raw backdash, so I will always start my round with OS’ed sweeps etc and guage their response from there.
Peace,
G.
Ah, thank you. I’ll try it out
Final Round XIV is just around the corner (March 11-13).
I just finished registering. Is anyone else from the Ken Army gonna rep?
I might be attending Final Round as well. Best of luck to ya.
Can’t make it.ill b at wcw3 tho
Hi guys, the only way I can Kara throw successfully is if I set throw to one button, it makes it a lot easier, I use the heavy kick button for throw cause I almost never use heavy kick tatsu. Do you guys think it’s good?
I use my index on the light Punch thumb on light kick and middle on medium kick. Hard kick tatsu can be use to kill people off. Just don’t do it to geif or your gonna go for a dizzy ride. But w.e more comfortable for you then use it