This guy is fun to play!
Also, is it me having just luck / good sense of timing or are his buttons great in air to air situations?
I do a lot of neutral jump fierces against all the crossup happy players out there.
What do you guys think of Rashid’s design? At first I kind of sighed at his goofy ass clothing, but with the scouter and his hilarious RA-SHI-DOOOO hype music I’m kind of enjoying his silliness.
He’s pretty silly, but in a good way. I like him, honestly.
Rashid has the best of all the mirror match win quotes. “You look just like me! Let’s take a picture together and post it online!”
I have become addicted to playing rashid this round of testing, he’s a slightly shower Cammy with more options to make up for the lack in speed. Really a blast to play though.
Hi guys,
played and streamed a lot of Rashid today. I was only on training and was facing all matches. I`m from Brazil so sometimes the matchmaking sent me some laggy matches but, either way, I think I could test some of his tools.
Yeah, it’s in portuguese but if anyone is interested, here it is:
I’m really liking Rashid. Probably not gonna play him but I think if he’s what would happen if Fuerte was more projectile/neutral based and less derpy. Plus his goofiness isn’t quite as overstated and his win quotes are pretty witty at times. You can still take him as a character somewhat seriously.
I don’t know about neutral based. Rashid seems to have some pretty ass footsie buttons. That being said, he’s really good at getting in and staying in, just that whenever I was in a neutral situation I got more nervous the longer it lasted.
His dive kick is really good at clipping hurtboxes when people stick out buttons. If you just drop it on people and they block it, expect a punish. Placing it in front of them and whiffing if they don’t stick out anything is more difficult for them to react to. The moves does about 150 damage too so at least there’s some reward to go along with the risk.
The different strengths mean people can’t just stand around waiting for it since you can mess around with the short kick version landing safely far away from them (Think adon playing with short kick jaguar tooths in sf4). The roundhouse version reaches pretty damn far so ordinary jumps forward can be made more threatening if you establish you’re willing to throw it out. Then people start blocking waiting for it or jumping up to hit you out of the air from a move that may or may not come.
Also the angle the short kick dive kick hits is perfect for faking crossups. You can be well on your way to jumping over someone’s head appearing to be about to do a cross up j. mk, then do a qcb+lk instead and hit them in front. Again, unsafe if blocked though. Not exactly an easy thing to block though, you can probably sneak this in once in a while and it’ll help you land crossups more often later.
Using it out of the v skill isn’t as effective because you’re committing to that really long flip in the air where your options are dive kick or…just land.
So is my memory off or was Rashid able to do c.mk xx mk eagle spike before? i was only able to combo into the light one. Also was the ex projectile invul before or no? Never tried it in beta 2 but i did yesterday and it’s not so thought I’d ask.
Same with c.mk xx lk fireball, doesn’t combo anymore and I’m pretty sure it did before. Other mediums and heavies work though.
The eagle spikes seem to land him closer to the opponent on block, I was geting punished by mediums without them moving forward at all.
Also, the walljump~ drop down seems to move further from the corner, if they were cornered my float down j.mk would always whiff coz i land too far away.
Last one is a feeling but I think v-trigger has more startup before the whirlwind comes out. I was getting hit out of f.mp VTC and c.mk VTC
Overall tho he’s still super dope and more or less the same so I’m glad they didn’t destroy him.
yes it’s nice when used like that, too bad the beta is off I wanted to check if a really deep/low divekick is safe… I got it blocked at ankle level and they never punished me, it could be a great asset if learnt to “aim” properly
F.mp xx VTC doesn’t work anymore (well first hit works, just not second)
c.mk xx vtc there was always a gap before from what I remember
c.mk xx lk fireball only combo’d on ch and sucked anyway as if they JUMPED and you got blocked they got a full jump in cause rashid fireball recovery is booty.
you are right c.mk xx medium eagle kick did use to work, small nerf there.
Other Changes:
Rolling through EX and HP fireball pushes you further missing hits of the fireball so you can’t combo off it (or at least not in my testing)
CC hp xx ex fireball, Vskill (jump) no longer allows you to combo on the other side you get caught in the wind and pushed wayyyyyy to far away.
CCH HP xx vskill(roll) hp no longer works as well
New Best CC combo seems to be CC HP, walk a step f.mp (1hit) xx ex eagle kick
Can no longer do HP Fireball roll, nj mk and get pushed into a crossup you just are too far away from the fireball after the roll.
All his frame traps seem to be intact but some of his fun stuff is missing now. He is still pretty good, just a bit toned down. Overall I think he is still strong.
You can still combo from qcf+hk, its just more spacing dependent. I used it from aa cr.mp all the time.
You can still get the cross up from HPxx qcf+k if you use ex. Again its more spacing dependant than before.
Cr.mk xx qcf+lk is better than it was. There is still a gap, but only invincibility will get them through. You also cant jump out, as long as its not done at max range.
For cc: hk, f+mp (1 hit) xx qcf+3k xx mp+mk, hk dive kick was the best i could get at 300 dmg. I couldnt get much from cc hp now that qcf+hk doesnt combo…
Also, rashids theme is hot. Where they singing his name at one point? Im sure i didnt imagine it.
all I know about rashid is that you can punish all non-EX horizontal kicks with laura f+HP target combo
and that’s all I needed to know
rashid could be top tier and no one would know, because everyone has collectively forgotten he exists
If seen one hit very low on Infiltration’s stream yesterday when he was playing a rank 85 Rashid from Korea. He doesn’t bounce back on block or hit. He lands right in front of you.
I know you can combo from qcf+hk -> I meant you used to be able to do CC HP xx qcf+hk, roll, continue combo, that doesn’t work now at least from my testing
Also we may or may not be mean the same crossup, I mean this one - > https://youtu.be/BnDXA5mCM40?t=38
If you can still do this with ex the spacing must be pretty particular cause every time I tried it I rolled so far ahead of the fireball it would never work.
Also thanks for pointing that out, just to clarify I meant best CC that you’d use to like punish a DP. I used st.hk a lot in neutral but very rarerly got CC s.hk due to its startup time.
@FullMetalRoss yep thats the cross up. Still works, but much harder.
Loosing cc hp into qcf+hk sucks. I couldnt find any thing good from cc hp yet.
Was using hk to cc punish DPs. The timings hard but i got way more for my effort it seemed.
Made a video demonstrating Rashid’s counterhit combos: