Hi guys, I would like to know your opinion about learning how to P-link. At the moment, I can hit consistently the Mantis st.mp - TC2 link, which should be a 2 frames link, if I’m not wrong. Let’s say that I can land it 90% of the times, if there’s no lag… Instead the Mantis cr.lp - TC2 link is just 1 frame and obviously much harder. I’m getting better and better at landing it, but still not at an acceptable level.
I tried to plink it in the training and if I focus on what I’m doing, I can do it… however this messes up with my positioning of the fingers on the joystick, so… learning how to plink this would require me to change radically my game. Should I do it? Or practice more with the 1-frame link to make its execution safer?
Here who plinks and what? Thanks!
Practice more on the 1 frame bnb. Part of the reason I love street fighter as a musician, and I know a LOT of other musicians who play street fighter too, is that using the stick is sort of like playing an instrument.
The way my old teacher used to tell me (in regards to music) about practicing things is that people always complain they can play things alone while practicing but when it comes to the show it starts to fall apart. It’s because EVERYONE plays worse when the real deal comes, even the pros. You have to practice to the point of being better than good in practice, so when the time comes you play real matches, that your ‘worse performance’ is still good.
Anyways, cool story me. Plinking will become natural after a while, although i’m not sure how it could mess up the positioning of your fingers so radically.
Thanks 
I’ll keep practicing. Well, maybe I exaggerated my issue with it… the movement of the fingers just feels so awkward when I plink, lol. Ok, got it, back to the training… 
There’s a couple technical things I will say about plinking.
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Maybe this sounds stupid but when you’re practicing, look at the inputs and make sure you’re doing it right. I found I was doing plinking wrong for quite a while, and I think i was simply doing combos better since I was more confident. But i’ve fixed it and felt the execution on the bnb go way up.
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It’s better to plink early than late. After all, the whole point is you get your first try then if you were too early you get the second input chance. It doesn’t help at all if you hit combos too late in general because if the first was too late, the second is guaranteed to be late obviously as well. Besides, I find it better to drop a combo by inputting too early, since usually the worst that will happen is nothing will come out, which is better than the TC2xGek coming out, being blocked and getting full punished.
Technique wise, if you piano hands with Gen, then plinking can come more naturally. Plinking cr. LP into st. HP is almost like doing the first small bit of st. HP into hands. The ring finger hits HP but instead of releasing the button, the ringer finger stays on the HP while the middle finger falls on the MP button. I find that letting the middle finger naturally fall on the MP produces consistent results.
Timing wise, I think that comes with time where you will be able to feel the timing of when to plink the cr. LP into st.HP.
I do piano but I think I never started it with st.HP… anyway thanks the funny thing is I always practiced cr.lp into st.hp after a jump in. The result is… that even without plinking, I can time it almost always when I jump (both crane and mantis mk). If I don’t jump it gets much more difficult. Nonsense, lol
There is no reason not to learn to plink, the best players in the world plink, and they probably spend way more time practicing than you do. If you have a 1-frame link and you’re not plinking it you are playing suboptimally.
I used to be skeptical about plinking, because I play on pad, but when I decided to learn how to plink (only HP MP and HK MK) I now land my BnB 65% of the time (as opposed to 30%) in real matches, I dont plink 2 frame links (although I should) but plinking makes your SF life a hell of alot easier.
Schiff, as someone who’s proud of hitting that bnb 95% of the time, I can tell you right now that the best way to be confident is to not worry if you’re gonna land the 1fl or not.
Simply learn to hitconfirm off of TC2.
Since MK is bufferable after hitting fierce, you can pretty much buffer the gekiro motion, and watch if the opponent was hit with the TC. You can hit LK relatively late.
After you learn to hitconfirm off of TC2, you’ll lose all fear of missing that bnb (apart from getting hit by a mashed reversal, which happens during frametraps as well, so fuck that), and your chances of hitting it will increase exponentially.
Either way, plinking is easy. You’ll get used to it in no time.
thanks I’ll practice in this way!
><:I have got a another problem for plinking. When I am doing the softunblockabe setup to yun&yang,after the forward throw than we press the roll(lp version). And the problem is the roll should be right after the throw.
Can the roll be plinked?
Is there any way can make this setup easier?
Sorry for my poor English…
You can’t plink since you’ll get an ex roll. Your best bet is to double tap so you get 4 chances of the move coming out.
You CAN plink actually. LP~MK works. Specials have higher input priority than normals so if you do d~f + LP + MK jab roll will still come out. If you release LP right after pressing LP + MK you’ll get the third input with negative edge.
Double tapping works better as long as you are fast enough. I personally don’t use them because it feels like I’m being too harsh on the buttons that I don’t want to replace as long as possible.
Tks,guys. I have already to marsh the bottom and that makes me 50% success. And plinking with mk seems work very well.
But ,don`t you think it will be regard as a kara roll?
In fact I am really feel the plinking mk is useful.
Kara roll would be plinking MK~LP, not LP~MK.
>0< AAAA ,I see… Now I know why this skill works properly.
Great ~ tks.
I p-link TC2 with hp, mp, lp a sure way to almost never miss. Also give you one less input if you want to do TC2, mk xx hands.
what what? P-linking with three inputs? I had no idea it was even possible…
theres double plink and tripple plink
woah. Thanks! I never thought of this!