Plinking / Tsuji-Style: KARA BUFFER Inputs for Easier Links and More!

System_1 · April 24, 2009, 12:35am

Can someone explain the original double tapping to me?

chicken · April 24, 2009, 1:07am

Tapping a button with your middle finger then your index finger in quick succession. You should keep your fingers curled and imagine it as brushing your fingers over the button rather than pressing down on it. Of course, this works best with joysticks.

deci · April 24, 2009, 1:19am

yep, or you can do it by just hitting the bottom edge of the button with your middle and then your index finger. you do this as fast as possible and if the game input shows two inputs of the same button, you did it correctly.

and yeah, stress the part that this is pretty much just for joysticks not pads.

Quest2be1 · April 24, 2009, 2:57am

Thanks for the visual bro. I am using a fightpad so pressing LP+HP is very hard to do :tdown: But hey, I use Guile and I only need HK+MK.

skooboy74 · April 24, 2009, 7:19am

nice… can’t wait to try this…

System_1 · April 24, 2009, 11:38am

Im new to this and still learning all the advanced techniques…So basically im having a difficult time understanding this…Am i basically hitting extra buttons to perform links easier?

nk4e · April 24, 2009, 2:34pm

I wouldn’t say links easier but somewhat getting an advantage.

nakatomi · April 24, 2009, 3:01pm

deci:

so i’m not sure if this was already mentioned earlier in this thread (i’m sorry if it has and i missed it)… but there’s an additional benefit to doing links this way.

the benefit is that if do your the second input of your link with a button that is chainable, if you miss the link early, you get the chain move to come out and it still combos. this is like an option select. this is kind of hard to explain in text so i’ll give an example:

guile:
cr.jab, cr.jab, cr.strong, - if you do the plink style, your inputs will be cr.jab, cr.jab, cr.strong ~ cr.jab.
if you input the cr.strong ~ cr.jab at the correct timing, it will link. if you input it too late, you get a cr.strong that doesn’t combo.
but if you input the cr.strong ~ cr.jab too early… you get a third cr.jab.
so basically you get a cr.jab, cr.jab, cr.jab combo instead.

i’m pretty sure this works because since the game registers cr.strong ~ cr.jab as both inputs, and if you timed it too early, it can only do cr.jab because cr.jab can be chain canceled from cr.jab.

all in all this is not a huge thing, but it is some additional damage if you happen to miss a plink too early, so it might be smart to think about which button you want to use as your second input in case you can take advantage of this.

Yeah tru deci. If u do the button motion too fast you still get a jab, keeps u safe and helps agianst ppl spamming specials, trying to counter out of ur combo. Many, many thanks to Kirby for posting this. It’s helping me learn 'Rog like 100 percent faster.

parabellum · April 24, 2009, 6:44pm

I started working this into my game a little and it seems to help, but it will take me a lot of time to learn all new muscle memory for certain combos.

Good stuff though, I just need about 12 hours of training mode to get it into my fingers on command.

fujifilm · April 24, 2009, 8:02pm

excellent find, need more pratice but it has definitely made me a better player

System_1 · April 25, 2009, 2:59am

I am still learning Balrog but I can’t figure out what you are saying about this method (yes call me a noob/retard =/) What would have to be the inputs to do his standard BnB combo: jump-in, c.lp, c.lp, c.lk, headbutt?

Dime · April 25, 2009, 3:24am

you dont need to plink to pull off that combo dude…

-dime

System_1 · April 25, 2009, 3:48am

doh So what Balrog combos would benefit from plinking? I know SRK hates noobs but I’m still confused. I would appreciate the help. I tested it out with Chun-Li and Akuma and I definitely see the difference and wanted to know how Balrog could benefit from this.

Dime · April 25, 2009, 3:58am

generally speaking it’ll help you out with 1 and 2 frame links… 3 frame links are already really easy as hell so theres little need to use it on those.

i dont know if balrog has any useful one frame links… but if he does it’ll probably be something like medium to medium…?

-dime

LAMG · April 25, 2009, 4:37am

its good to see that capcom never dropped this kind command imput…

and to people to re-discover it.
and if im not mistaken you coud do it in x-men:cota too.

NB2 · April 25, 2009, 7:47am

Just went to the arcade and tried this out(playing on fightpad at home)…first day of plinking got me around 70% on my short>Fierce Rufus link. Unfortunately, my FADCs on arcade are absolute shite. I don’t know if it’s the cab at UCLA, but I didn’t have any trouble getting out supers on the 3s machine. Just couldn’t get out supers facing right.

NEway…plinking rules. Thanks to Vicious for showing me how much. I’ll be slipping in a day or two of arcade play per week.

evilj · April 25, 2009, 9:30am

wow.

Balrog’s jab into strong link is now so much easier. Another tool for him to be good.

Hotobu · April 25, 2009, 10:42am

This is something that would have gasp! been better off being asked in the Balrog forums, but off the top of my head:

cr. MK -> cr. MP
cr. LP -> cr. MP
st. cl. HK -> cr. HK/ cr. MP

Dime · April 25, 2009, 11:56pm

is there any way to plink with jab?

there are lots of one framers into crouching jabs, and jab seeming to have the least priority seems as if it cant be priority linked into at all, unless someones found a way to further cheat the system?

-dime

Mariodood · April 26, 2009, 12:41am

Doesnt seem like it. Better double tap.