I haven’t done extensive testing on it, but I find that instant HP Air Raid tends to crossup in the corner, while LP doesn’t. It works most consistently against wide characters, like Yun.
So has rolentos play style been figured out yet? cause playing like a more annoying el fuerte is working in this video
Skip to 1:06:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIC-caNda8Y
LOL
Here’s a little fun from me and my buddy Barry. We were laughing the whole time cause neither of us really know how this match up should go, but we play a lot, and I troll my buddy with all my characters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zZFlZRluNQ
And to do him justice, it was a FT3, and he changed to Sakura to show me the error of my ways.
So I discovered after a connected EX Patriot Circle you can FADC forward into either a sweep (I’m pretty sure he can sweep the entire cast with this, including the characters he can’t normally sweep after a EXPC) or into one of Rolento’s corner setups that you couldn’t do otherwise midscreen. If you do cl.HP into instant stinger, you’ll be at a range where Ryu’s non EX DPs will whiff, and you’ll recover fast enough to block his EX DP. If the knife hits, you can hit confirm into U2. (U1 might hit as well depending on the character). You can also follow up with a jab, dash under, and cross them up.
It’s pretty meter intensive, but it keeps Rolento in and helps him keep pressure on the opponent much better than his regular midscreen EXPC followups.
sorry if this is common knowledge…but am i right in saying st.hk, cr.mk doesn’t combo on poison? she seems to recover before the cr.mk whenever i try this. if i’m right and this is the case, are there any other characters where he has the same problem? thanks.
It combos on Poison only if she is crouching. I think in the combo thread someone made a definitive list of who it doesn’t connect on.
This character is unfinished, I’m already missing his SFxT and Alpha 2 versions. Capcom needs to buff his st.mp and give EX rekka invincibility. Also, cr. mk needs its range increased. The hitbox doesn’t even extend to the length of Rolento’s foot.
I personally have found his st.MP to be incredible. I’ve been exclusively using it to challenge people as my AA from all ranges (and j.LP for Air-Air if I don’t use MK/HK).
I think the only thing that’s challenging about st.MP is the timing for people who can change their trajectory. We have a lot of dive kickers in my area, so I have been playing with it to find the sweetest timing at the different heights they are executing their dive, but for the most part, st.MP wins almost every time.
The ONLY exception to the above statement out of the cast I’ve played so far has been Sakura. That bitch can suck a dick with her j.HP/HK and tatsu.
Edit: “her”
Does anyone else notice that most people have pure disrespect for anything Rolento does. So far every match i fight online the first round people just do what ever and don’t care what happens. Only until the second round do they stop, but that first round is just straight disrespect to Rolento.
Free rounds for everyone!
I never see disrespect. People have to treat Rolento like Rufus, Chun, and Honda when he has no meter, so they go in. The porpoise is to show them what’s up with your good looking normals and exceptional linguistic skills.
Well yeah… hes fucking trash. I have more respect for dan since atleast he has a reversal.
Wtf are capcom doing.Buffing ibuki and viper and taking away the good buffs on a lot of the actualy bad cast like honda for example.Really ?
Anyway what they did to rolento from arcade to console is just ^%^. Like 90% of the cast have invincible reversal. Its part of the CORE gameplay of SF4 series, half the mindgames are around that. If you don’t got it people will walk all over you.You need to put the fear in people and rolento has no tools to do that.Its all dumbass gimmicks.
seriously, think about it.How many of the cast doesn’t have a get off me move whit EX atleast.
Mind you he can be ok whitout invincable EX patriot if:
1 Better back dash
2 Better walk speed
3. more controllable EX wall jump
3. Huge buff to J.HP. X Tekken status.
4. Huge buff to C.MK X Tekken status
5. S.MP back to 6 active frames
If he had all that he’d be a solid mid tier even whitout “get off me” EX patriot.
I just cant get over it. Why would you nerf so many of hes things knowing how even the slightest changes can ruin a char.The went HUGE whit the nerfbat on rolento let me tell you.
Yeah dude we been there been salty at that back in week one. Hold that shit and just go nuts. If they have you figured out then you still have good normals. No point in complaining because if there even is going to be another patch, it won’t happen till disc release.
*shrug…
I still feel like rolento is pretty good.
Been playing runaway turtley style. You just have to be really mindful of where the corner is and be ready for a side switch. Some matches just suck no matter what tho. Yun seems especially brutal.
^^ DonkeyKongs have been an expected, and difficult trial for Rolento.
retracted
I have pretty much started playing rolento like a scumbag, try my best to annoy the person I’m playing and cause them to make mistakes and get impatient
Any tips for hitting jabs into cr. mk xx rekka more consistently? I use a 360 d-pad and don’t double-tap or anything like that, just straight timing.
I just switch to a crt TV, all my combos come out more consistently… Honestly his combos seem more difficult in the timing
The most brutal match for me right now is gief still. You only win if the gief player is ass.
Standing jab, crouching forward is just a really fast link. Try to get to the forward as soon as you can and you’ll hit the link.