I think u2 > u1 vs Gief, Hawk, Abel, Hakan (Grapplers) and Blanka
Other than that I think u1 is the way to go. HOWEVER, I’ve been wondering if there would be a way to use u2 on highly mobile characters with good u1 escapes (teleport, air tatsu etc). u2 against someone good who wont just recklessly jump at you really limits the ability to use u2 especially when they don’t have long winded whiff moves.
Dirty bull is the worst by far application wise, but if you ever land it the stun is insane.
bja_eh
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If you think u2 sucks then u probably think raging demons suck too, cause it seems as though the ultra has similar properties in terms of AA and invincibility.
Did you make your account to make this awful thread?
I hope you don’t turn new players away from this good ultra by thread title alone.
I find U2 to be really good against Rose:D She can’t match your fireball game with just fireballs, so she will try to use some variaton of reflect, and then you will have a lot of time to react to it with U2:)
Amsalp
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Ultra 2 has some slight invulnerability and stays out for quite a long time (and has a huge hitbox). Ultra 2 makes it very hard for Balrog to get in (he can’t ex-dash punch without being grabbed or U2’ed, he can’t jump against you except up-close on wake up, and he sometimes can’t rush-punch). You really need to either be good against Dhalsim or play a good one to know how good it is >.>.
If you think u2 is only a gimmick ultra used by setting up fireball traps, (e.g. fireball, they jump over, u u2) then you are wrong.
As stated in another thread, that thing punishes a lot of stuff and makes any slow whiffed moves at 1/2 a screen away a liability.
@konkrete i never said it was the worst in the game i said it might be besides rogs u2 is the worst and thats what everyone came to agree with
Come to think of it, I nominate Gief U2 as the second worst u2 in the game after Rog.
Snafoo
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I just tested U2 on a cr.fierce of boxer (-8) and he was able to jump out everytime. If U2 is a 5 frame move how come I couldn’t punish it?
Nov
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I thought the same until I started using it effectively. If you are not tiger kneeing shangri la, then you probably don’t know how to use it. The things you can punish make it very ridiculous.
You can punish it, you were just not doing it fast enough. Just tried it, got it on the 2nd try.
Like several people above have said, Dhalsim’s U2 is great for countering baited moves – whiffed DPs, sweeps, etc. Plus there are some fun/interesting setups such as empty jumping forward, teleporting back and then using U2 after your opponent misses their anti-air. I like to use it against bigger, slower characters. U1 is the safer of the ultras to pick though.
rtdzign
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One time I was fighting a Ryu who was a 10000 bp. Well I had him knocked down and figured that no 10k bp would wakeup shoryu, so I noogied him 2X in a row.
The third time he went for the tech and instead of throw I Instand-Air-Jumped back U2. I know he went for the tech since I saw the grab mid flash.
It only worked because the whole match I went tick throw happy, hoping to U2 him later. He had a tendency to not throw random shoryukens.
There are mind games that must be played to land this and it is high risk, and also it can be tough to get it to come out, especially the jump back version.
U2 has some good uses, but it is harder to use and has less obvious applications than U1.
DomBomb
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IA Shangri-la is all that needs to be said. No way Sim’s U2 is the worst. If i select ultra 1 now a days it’s by mistake.
The point I was making is that this is a dumb thread.
There is a shngri’la thread already, please use that in the future.
I use Ultra 2 against Viper every time.
Truth. Still hate the matchup though 
