Those combos don’t apply much pressure unless you have them in a good position, really you have to think about what you want your opponent to be doing, basically, to apply pressure you need to get them in the corner or knock them down, especially knock them down because alex has a lot more mix up here.
Once you knock them down, it can be pretty tricky to guess what you are going to do, 3 worst scenario, they either guess parry and punish you, they wake up super or they wake up ex reversal. EDIT- there is a forth scenario, they can roll, which can help you possibly, I can’t elaborate on it right now, maybe someone else will.
You can probably guess up most of your options here, tick grab, karagrab, meaty combos, crossup headstomp, spiral ddt, crossup ddt, and his standing fierce “as mentioned before and beat out alot of the reversals in the game”, the rest is basically just baiting.
You basically want them to constantly be in a position where they have to rockpaper scissors guess, whether or not they take half their stun bar.
He doesn’t have much going for him when it comes to like block strings, but he does have some good corner pressure to keep them there, tick grab, karagrab, elbow slash,random flash chops, throw in some ex flash chops when you think they think they can do something. In my opinion you’d want to avoid using ddt’s unless you are close enough to hit with close s.mk I always seem to get fucked unless I do that or use it when they are waking up.
When you are applying pressure with alex you want to think whether or not they will jump after your hit, you can hit them with an early standing fierce if you wanted, but He has a lot of anti air options, especially if your opponent is jumping out of pressure. you can try his d-fierce, f-mp, or late st.mp xx air knee and Head stomps.
Once they are guessing what you are going to do you can go for the jump in fierce - st.mk - ex flash chop combo or xx super.
While implementing this like others have mentioned before your goal is to stun them, at least that was the common consensus last time I checked.
I’m sure that this information isn’t that usefull, you’d learn it on your own over time and its possibly a bad strategy, so If any of the people who know more about alex want to improve on this, please correct me. This is my theory and pretty similar to how I go about my game, so if I’m doing some stupid shit it would be nice to know too.
Thanks guys and thanks for giving me something to do necroses.
