St.mk all day also, it stuffs a lot of her shit including the slide. (not the special)
You can use cr.fierce on the backdash aswell, her wake up is shit, so bait out that EX up kick, focus the dagger, and put her up for big damage.
And block…lots!
Akuma, just drop the stick, fucking terrible match. >:(
Feels like fst.MK is just a godly button against everyone as long as you don’t throw it out every other second.
thank you, also i enjoy watching your play as i learn a lot from it. actually learned how to fight seth from watching some long set between you and a seth player in some lan center on youtube.
thanks, and yeah i suppose that akuma vs sagat is always gonna be a poor matchup in sf4. if i ever fight an akuma in tourney i’ll just pick ken i suppose since i already know the matchup well with him. viper too probably that matchup seems piss poor to me as well, although i’m new to the char and could very well be wrong.
Im glad im not the only one who thinks that akuma is a god awful match. Everyone i know says that its a close match, 5.5-4.5 akuma’s favor. If that’s true then it is the most uphill battle that is “close”. Akuma makes me rage almost as much as Blanka does.
I think blanka is 4-6 in sagat’s favor. Akuma is not that bad IMO now that his far standing HK got nerfed. I think they adjusted the hitbox on it too, since I’m seeing the second hit whiff more often.
you have to turtle blanka
like complete turtle no movement?
How do i beat gimmick blanka? The one i play the most uses the slide punch (goes under ALL TS), and hop into grab, with the occasional blanka ball that lands way far away on recovery. Its hard to get in practice against it because the only time i play her is offline at meet ups (uni has a “fighting game club”)
Deep slides can be punished by dp. Practically all blanks balls can be punished by Kara lk ex tu. haven’t practiced this matchup in awhile. U2 punishes all blocked balls too. Practice the lk ex tu to see which ones can be punished I don’t remember off hand.
Thanks will try, I never thought of kara tu to punish after blanka bounces back. Well off to lab now, the way i was doing it before was not yeilding any punishes.
This is just general sf4, nothing character specific. But if you notice that a blanka is slide happy it is usually a good idea to throw out prediction focuses in slide range because if you catch a slide with a focus that’s obviously a full combo. This doesn’t work on good players but generally blankas that go to slide a lot aren’t that good in the first place.
Mvskokee can non ex kara dps punish blanka balls?
Merry Christmas my tiger brethren.
Merry Christmas
wtf is Sagat supposed to do against people who refuses to emergency tech after a TU?
That stuff annoys me sooo much~
Whenever I see my cr.lk miss I usually just walk back a bit and then cr.mk > low shot, but this of course isn’t really a true meaty (I think) so sometimes people can still jump out or backdash (or I get DP’d, of course).
And would anyone care about writing some sort of “Fireball 101”?
I think I kind of understand the general gist of it, but some insights from more experienced Sagats would be too good.
(merry xmas)
fireball game write up by alioune
No she isn’t the greatest. But i never play blanka ever, so her gimmicks/shenanigans whatever they be called, just put me into a stupor cuz i never get a chance to see it anywhere else. And ive tried the preemptive focus, but whenever i do that i eat a random ball that was done at some stupid close range.
The ball isn’t random. It’s dumb to throw out a random focus on a blanka with a charge. Just don’t do it.
why would you throw it out when he has charge? hes not going to have charge all game. most dumb blankas throw out a slide while walking forward anyway.
Sagat’s FA is really strong against Blanka, it’s great as a AA and it stuffs the slide for free on reaction. It’s even more dangerous when you have Blanka in the corner because even if he breaks your armour you’ll be able to hit him with a kara TU or U2. Wait, i’m forgetting if ex blanka ball knocks down, havent played blanka yet
Its hard to explain the ball, it’s at times where you wouldn’t expect it or at least I wouldn’t. So i get caught by it, like i said not a ton of MU knowledge on the subject.