Hello, im thinking about picking up Yang as my main. But i haven’t yet known much abt his playstyle as well as difficulty. Can anybody tell me what his strengths/weaknesses and gameplan are?
I can do simple FADC combos (Seth, Rose, fadc Ultra,…) but i dont know Yang’s. Is he a high-execution required character?
your goal is to stay around his c.mk distance and buffer into slashes from his c.mk, standing mp, etc and work your opponent to the corner. then keep them there. use dive kicks to help you get in.
his strengths:
weaknesses
-low damage. he probably deals the lowest damage in the game. you can’t make many mistakes since its very hard for him to come back from a deficit
-loses to grapplers. you can’t slash without fadc since it’ll put you in command grab distance. his low damage is compounded with all grapplers have high defense and damage.
-dive kick is one of the weaker ones. compared to yuns, its slower and requires a greater height restriction. the blockstun on it is not much either. nevertheless, its still a dive kick.
as for execution, you have to learn how to link his c.lks like bison and also get the timing for slash x2 fadc into ultra 1. fadc into ultra 2 is much easier but u2 does less damage.
or a be a scumbag and play yun who doesn’t love a good yun?
from low-mid skill levels Yang requires solid play and the ability to hitconfirm cr. lk or lp into his mantis slashes. FADC combos are cool, but ultimately having a great neutral game is more important, IMO. Once you get that down you can start doing resets and command grab shenanigans and those are pretty high-execution as far as I’ve seen. I’ve tried some Yang stuff I saw Mago do in training mode and it’s not ridiculously hard, but I’d never be able to pull it off in a match.