Sakura Strategy and Match-up Thread (2.0)

It’s a tough call, he has the advantage at neutral but she can kind of hand him his lunch after scoring that first knockdown, bingo is relatively awful as a wakeup.

Heres a little tip for Balrog. When your zoning full screen try to keep him spaced where his front toe is just on the halfway bar of the meter bar. Its the perfect zone where it looks like dash straight will hit but it won’t and you can whiff punish. I been just watching his feet when zoning now and its been helping me a lot

DBJ wrote about an unblockable on Dictator: I would like to know the setup :stuck_out_tongue:

I gotta assume he means the midscreen dp fadc into crouch-unblockable tatsu? Which, btw, also works on The Fuerte.

On a tangent, Fuerte is very susceptible to medium tatsu unblockables. Midscreen sweep, whiff LK, M tatsu or corner throw, whiff LK, M tatsu. But I think he can just backdash out for free. At least I haven’t found a way to punish it when going for the M tatsu…

This thread is awesome I will be spending **a lot **of time studying it.

DBJ how do you go up against the viper matchup? at the caliber of Latif? whats her tools to use in this MU ?

Also Adon can be quite easy since your St.hk is better and faster then his so he can basicly never press it if you do it right when you see his startup animation and you have clicked you win at the tip ofc and c.hp jaguars on reaction and u2

Yes its hard its a very hard MU but she got some strong points aswell in this MU i just want to see a 50/50 otoshi setup aswell that is better then the one i have, then it becomes way more easier.

Added you, dude. :wink:

Quick question: How the hell do you os a dp inside a block string? I read in the Sakura OS thread that Skatan uses c.lk>HP Srk~c.Lp. Da fuq? This shit is impossible man!

I don’t know how to os hp or mp dp in strings without getting ex, but to os lp dp between a short and a jab is hella easy

I’m kinda with him, when I try to OS that I pretty much always get the dp no matter what because the cr.lk cancels into it.

Chaining takes priority over special cancels, so do it fast enough and on hit or block your lk or lp will chain into a lp and on whiff the lp dp will come out

ah thanks, I thought they prioritize the other way, I guess I just need to do it faster

Really you can do it faster? That’s so weird. I personally do the OS slower. I do it like I’m buffering crLK into L dp, except extra slow so that it misses the buffer window. I’m fairly certain I’m still getting the chain, since crLK into crLP is supposedly a 1 frame link, and am neither that precise, nor can I plink with back button.

I also have no idea how to OS a M or H sho in between, though I haven’t tried yet.

Whatever works for you. I do it fast so it’s a true bs, and it’s more consistent for me.

Oh I figured out a way to OS M or H dp, but it’s pretty hard for me.
You do your crouch light, then your dp motion, then you tap LP like 2 frames after your crMP or crHP such that you just barely don’t plink it. So your 2nd light button gets chained, your heavy or medium dp doesn’t get buffered on hit or block, and you don’t get a plink. There’s a very specific rhythm to it. It’s easy to mess up and get the cancel or accidentally OS the EX dp for me, though I pretty much only tried it for a minute haha.

what would you say her matchup is vs ryu/ken ? my arcade is like 50% ryu players, seriously

<P>Last few weeks this Bison player’s been giving me fits, he’s pretty solid at blocking and will EX Psycho out of damn near any hole in my strings.  While I can do fine just pulling up and blocking without leaving a hole so I don’t eat the damage/knockdown, I can’t punish it for shit so it gives him a get-out-of-jail-free card, by the time I close the distance to get back within striking range he’s usually got another bar to do it again.  Any ideas?</P>

Some sort of U1/U2 OS vs EX psycho?<br>

Inputting U1 or U2 in between your blockstrings? Sounds a bit impractical, not to mention how EX Psycho will just pass through U2.<br>

You don’t want to be trying to OS against Bison unless you really know what they’re gonna do. Guessing will probably get you killed, like Viper. You want Bison to use all his meter. So just let him and try and pressure him when he has no meter, otherwise it’s a grindy lamefest. You can OS hp dp if they do a backwards teleport, but otherwise, I wouldn’t even try. If you think they’ll EX Devil’s Reverse, then you can walk forward and cr.fp. Also, if he’s EX Psycho’ing in your strings, you can still stop pressure to do a lk tatsu and stuff psycho clean for a full CH combo. <br>

Ok so I’ve been wondering what my answer to Rose’s RH is for a little while. Is it whiff punish with cr.lp buffer?