Most Bisons probably won’t do this, but keep in mind option select can be dangerous when Bison has ultra. He can do a forward teleport, and U2 to punish whiffed ex srk or hk tatsu.
Again, he wont be able to U2 mk tatsu.
and yes mk tatsu BEATS ex PC, at least on the fwd throw case (its just a matter of timing) akuma hits him after he crossed with tatsu.
Hey, can I know the secret to the chun matchup? I struggle against her so much. Any help would be appreciated… I hate her D:<
Knock her down, keep her down (on 4 for maximum effect lol)!!
I find that difficult when she has EX because of the SBK. I suppose you can bait it though…
ex sbk sucks vs akuma…you can easily safe jump it both with d.mk dive kick, jump hk or df palm. Hell you can even straight out beat it with df kick.
If you block it it’s a free sweep or even s.hk into full combo (ending into sweep of course). after doing this once you can be sure that she’ll block on her next wakeup…here comes the df throw.
Safe jumpable and gets beat by jump-in OS EX DP.
I need help with the Adon matchup. Can anyone give me some tips on the basics for a start?
you can beat out ex SBK by just delaying hitting the “kick” part of your dive kick. thing is though, if you do that though, chun-li can easly dash out; this is only if they know how to beat it, though.
Also Chun Li can delay her EX SBK. Which is what the good ones do. It’s not like she has to reversal it on wake up.
You basically rarelly want to df dive kick. You want to safe jump it with j.rh/df palm for the bnb combo into sweep/just sweep into the vortex again. Be sure to do a correct sweep OS (correct so that you block ex SBK, but you hit her backdash at the same time. Simply done by delaying the sweep input a bit) and the game is almost yours.
She’ll be open to DF throws then, jump in HK late OS sweep will beat everything except focus back dash (which gets beaten by DF throw too btw) and blocking, if you option selected a late sweep with DF palm, Chun has no option but to block as far as I know since it’ll even break wakeup focus dash attempts, timing to do the OS sweep properly as spidey mentioned is a bit tricky though, I’m still trying to learn it properly since it’ll help me A LOT vs Chun.
So if people saw this weekend’s SCR, (which I direly hope you did) you can see Tokido do relentless pressure against America’s best Rufus’s (Ricky, JWong). On Rufus’s wake up he would constantly pressure them with cr. short cr. jab strings. I heard James Chen say something along the lines that even if the Rufus mashed out EX Messiah, the latter several hits of the kick would whiff over Akuma if he’s doing that and you can punish after. Is this confirmed?
yes
10 characters
what do I do vs ken? that matchup gets on my nerves
ken makes even a newbie strong because that f.mk kick is perfect for people who suck at footsies. It’ll probably give you problems, you gotta out footsie him and don’t fall for his stupid day one tricks like blocked stepkick into srk fadc ultra because you tried to stick out a poke…on wakeup, his mp srk will beat all your demon flips (unlike ryu’s), so be more careful. Also learn to tech kara throws, the timing is different.
Man, in playing lately I’ve made my own list of bad matchups for Akuma. I feel that Bison, Balrog, and Cammy are tough as hell; Honda can be beaten but you have to play VERY carefully, his damage output is devastating. Ryu and Ken are also tough because they can greatly hinder the Dive Kick wake-up game. In total I would say he has about 6 bad matchups, more-or-less agreeing with the Eventhubs list. Regardless of the fact that he can be #1 in the right hands, I’ll swallow my own vomit if he’s nerfed further in AE.
don’t fall for the lp shoryu -> fp shoryu online unblockable
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ken and ryu are definitely NOT bad matchups…balrog…hmnnnn, i don’t know, it’s probably 5-5 or maybe 5.5 in rog’s favour but seriously, balrog is probably one of the top 3 characters that really can’t do shit on wakeup vs akuma. Getting those 2 knockdowns that are needed to kill him can be a pain tho.
Overall I’d say Honda is a worse matchup than rog.
For me the top bad matchups are
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Rufus
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Cammy
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Honda/Bison
Rose is also kinda a bitch, in a sense that you gotta play completely different against her.
A few questions:
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Concerning the Dudley matchup, what Ultra do you guys use? And what pokes do you use against him? I’ve been trying fs.HP, fs.MK and cr.MK with only average success. Seems like he’s got vastly superior pokes (unless my footsie game is more trash than I had thought)
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How do you deal with Cammy’s tk Cannon Drills? I keep wanting to teleport out but either mess up and eat a combo or I’ll try to tech when I think she’s gonna grab and still eat a combo lol. Is it better to just sit there and eat a throw?