Can you be more specific ?
meaning doing it on somebodyâs wakeup
I know what it means lol.
I meant after which knockdown. Is it after Peach, EX peach, Brimistone. wingless airplane, sweep ?
The advantage is different in each of these cases. Generally, i guess it wonât be a bad idea to use it as a meaty and use wingless airplane to side switch. I use every now and then to finish off the round. I just think that Mika has an excellent flow to her pressure generally and F.HP is amazing as a meaty.
I am not sure if it is the optimal situation though. I generally have been having the best luck with using delayed VTC after pokes, that way you can combo on hit and on block you get a grab/pressure mixup.
VTC after a cr.MP reset in the corner is also EXTREMELY effective.
how do you cancel vtriggera
It means doing a normal and then cancelling that normal into V-trigger activation. Similar to how you do a normal and then do a special move from it. You just press HP + HK when the attack is hitting your opponent basically.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECHy8Xu2bsM
i was talking about using it as a meaty to stop wake up options because if they press a button they fucked.
It might be worth it for Zangief since he doesnât get that much from his activation. His V-trigger is arguably way better when the timer is on since it will combo from anything at that point unlike the VTC.
Mika on the other hand has a single time activation V-trigger and the combo extension/mixup/force a get in that you get from it is far more valuable.
Hey guys, Iâm having some troubles as of late. Me and my friend play each other ALL the time and as of this year currently, he has bodied me in every tournament we have both gone to. Its like every time Im in winners or losers finals im always matched up with him and I always seem to lose. In a sense, im being gatekept like Tokido was against Infiltration. Iâm at a loss on how to cope with this other than practice and try again (He plays Necalli btw) but I donât know and Iâm getting frustrated every time this happens. Any advice?
Post a replay and letâs figure this out. Itâs hard to give advice without seeing any gameplay.
Will do. Give me about 30 mins
Okay C100 - Iâm a silver scrub so I am not saying this like I know better⌠but where are the V-Reversals? I understand him playing without them, since his v-trigger is 3 bars and lasts the remainder of the match. Yours is only 2 bars and while the combo can be pretty good you can easily use 1 v-reversal and still have a v-trigger before the match is over. Wouldnât that be a better way to get control back on the round?
Also I feel like it is possible he is just more in tune with your play, considering you are a skilled player (obviously) but he seems to win against you more. I have a friend like that, we are both pretty similarly skilled against other opponents, but against each other he almost always aces me.
Thanks for the advice S. I donât care whether youâre diamond, gold, bronze whatever. If you got input, im all ears
And yea, that what it seems to be. Like, Iâm not frustrated at him per se, but more frustrated at the fact that I havenât gotten over this hill yet.
My main observation in the first match - you need to recognize when you have the life lead and sit on. In the first round, you were winning for the most part but then you over-extended and threw your life lead away. You had no reason to get hit by that st.HK twice. Getting hit once is fine, but you should have acknowledged that you were at frame disadvantage and blocked. You backed off after that, which is okay because you want to maintain positional advantage but on the other hand, you probably should have gone in because the life lead is no longer yours.
In the second round, a similar thing happened. You had a life lead, then put yourself in a bad position and guessed wrong repeatedly. Also, correct me if Iâm wrong, but I noticed in that sequence that you always defended against the previous mixup. It looks like you tried to jump out after Necalli AA st.LP because you were afraid of command grab, got thrown after that because you were afraid of frame traps, then got neutral jumped on because you were afraid of a throw and teched. Donât be afraid to just block. Getting thrown repeatedly looks dumb and feels bad, but not as bad as eating a neutral jump into a full combo.
My main observation of the second match - you failed to capitalize on your knockdowns but Necalli did. I feel like you were doing a better job of winning the small battles in neutral, but couldnât get anything off your knockdowns. You either mistimed your meaties, mistimed your strings after the meaty, or simply backed off. Work on that.
In the third match, you over-extended in two situations. The first was when you had the Necalli nearly cornered after making him block f.HP, st.MP. He managed to get out with a crossup j.MK. There really was no reason for him to be able to land that. He had gone for the same option before, so you should have expected him to go for it again and had jump-back LP or MP on deck. The second overextension basically lost you the game. You had a massive life lead and positional advantage but you threw it all away when you decided to go for a charged st.HK after forward throw. You had no reason to go for something as risky as that. Even if Necalli didnât land that st.HK into VT, CA, I wouldâve considered that a bad decision. Time and time again, Necalli has gone for j.MK to get out of the corner. You should have anticipated that option and countered.
Overall, I think your spacing is good but you need to know when to engage and when to back off. Sometimes you disengaged when you should have gone in, and sometimes you went in when you were probably better off hanging back. Also, tighten up your oki and pressure strings. You lost a few oppurtunities to continue pressure because you let Necalli roll away to safety and you messed up your comeback in the last round of the last match by mistiming your EX Rainbow Typhoon. Use itâs range to your advantage. Throw out two lights before going for the tick so that you have more time to confirm and also to push yourself out of their throw range. Also, you need to use V-Reversal in this matchup. Any blocked stomp is a free knockdown and mixup for you. Having V-Trigger for a big comeback via 50/50 or combo extension isnât nearly as important in this matchup as having V-Reversal to nullify Necalliâs momentum and build up yours.
Thanks for the tips Heavy_Mental. I watched my matches and you were pretty much spot on with the analysis. I really do need to figure when to go in and when not to. I havenât really grasped that concept yet since I just like to go in most times.
No problem. Itâs one of those mistakes that doesnât become apparent until you actually watch your own replays. I dealt with the same issue for the longest in SF4. I mained Rose but I still played extremely aggressively and wanted to go in at every opportunity. It took a very long time and a lot of losses before I figured out I had a bad habit of overextending and that it was one of the main reasons I was losing games I otherwise should have won.
Who is a good secondary to learn?
I main both of R.Mika and Chun-Li and they work out pretty well together i think.
You need to look at the tougher match-ups and they in my opinion are : The shotos, Guile, perhaps Chun and Karin and Maybe Nash.
Now look at who does well against these characters : I think that both Chun-Li and possibly Cammy deals well with the characters above. I mostly went with Chun because she can play differently than Mika and she has a projectile.
She just offers some options that i sometimes miss when using Mika.
I am a relative beginner to Mika floating around Ultra Silver / Gold right now, and also thinking of picking up an alt.
Do you think that Chun is a significantly better alt for Mika than Cammy? I ask this because it seems like Chun requires vastly more time and effort to learn. I mean Ticky mains her and he still misses IALL inputs all the time. Chun is higher in the tier list and she has a fireball, but is the difference worth it?