Sakura AA game is crap against trajectory change nonsense(lol akuma/dive kicks) and oftimes you are at a frame disadvantage after hitting cr. Hp even with the recovery buff.
Also Sakura can combo lights into LP DP or ex Dp all day.
Edit: I’m pretty sure she can go to MP DP from light confirms in S4.
5 frames active so does better than most. I mean the only case you can make is that she’s a bit weak against cross ups.
Sakura is the easy to use shoto?
Holy shit will you shut the fuck up already?
She’s pathetically weak to crossup.
Sakura is probably the worst shoto to start playing. You’re better off with Ryu/Ken.
I actually kind of think of Sakura as medium difficulty, depending on what you’re good at. Some input overlaps if you aren’t clean, ideally want to be single hit confirming most of the time, has links in some important combos.
Not a big barrier to play her, but not autopilot for beginners either.
Sakura is NOT weak to crossups, what kinda crack you smoking? Her cr.hp covers most crossup hurtboxes.
Sure she is. If you disagree feel free to explain asshole. Your brilliant at one liners.
It legit never AAs crossup for me, literally never.
Shit whiffs like nobodies business and get tagged for it.
You must be trying to AA crossups that need an auto-corrected delayed normal, because this thing beats any shallow/tight crossups for free as soon as they extend their hurtbox.
Ten minutes until the next Kombat Kast. Apparently it’s gonna be Jade which is cool for her fans.
If you hit it late, i can agree. But i dont have a problem. Works most of the time. But you have air throws if you have people jumping at you from close.
Sounds like a nice way to get bopped considering how slow it is and delaying for crossup.
You do a delayed jab, but cr.hp works too, it’s not really that slow, it’s 8f.
You can backjump airthrow like dude said above but you get the left/right from the other two options.
It’s Mahvel Marvel? lol
Is this the new trend now?
Last time was an injustice mobile ported into the arcade.
What next KOF mobile?
I think Sakura can’t be the easiest shoto because of her matchups. Cody, Falke, rashid, Bison, gief(holy shit this bad), birdie, akuma, Karin, guile, menat, Boxer. All shit matchups.
Hell I don’t think she does well against fucking Ryu right now. Then you got Abigail where you might roll him and he doesn’t get started or you get washed. Cammy and ken aren’t exactly even either.
MK11 is shit
There’s a difference between being easiest to play and hard to win with. A perfect example is another shoto ryu. Obviously im not trying to deter maravilla from playing sakura by giving him horror story of how she struggles against karin or cammy. lol.
Her combos are easy. Easy confirms and you have safe on block specials. Easy mode anti airs. Great jump in attack and far reaching dash in. Her meaties are easy with cr mp having 4 active frames. St mp is +3 and can be easily be pressured with. She has buttons optimized for every situation. St lk easy to whiff punish.
You dont have to confirm whether the opponent is standing or crouching like you do with other shotos like ryu, or have difficult corner combos like you do with akuma. Ryu’s frametraps in general are lacking. I mean to play akuma optimally can be hard with setups required for demon flips, etc. And ken there’s st mk whiffing on crouchers, and cr mk which needs to be confirmed into shoryuken. And learning how to use v skill run effectively without tripping yourself.
Maybe you can mod it to make it not shit 
Can’t mod out ugly, ask Ken
