I really need help with the Urien matchup. I fought a good Urien and he fucking streaked me. I still don’t see how this match is in Alex’s favor. Alex does good damage and stun, sure. But Urien has better pokes and more options. I’ll go over these scenarios that consistently destroy:
Right off the bat, he can play keep away. His pokes are better than mine. The crHK, crMK, stMK, stHP, all beat whatever I throw at him. Then the Shoulder Rush. I cannot close the gap. Because if I try to dash in, a Shoulder hits me. And his Shoulder beats my Elbow Rush clean. So I cannot close the gap and get his ass. I feel like I have to jump in, and again Urien has multiple ways to juggle you. Jumping is the worst thing in the world to do, because his projectile, Headbutt, crHP, and Shoulder AA and juggle you.
If he knocks me down he can do this: crLK into Headbutt, crHP for juggle, or a lot of them do this where they stay just out of range for you to do anything to them and they do stHK which hits twice and also AA’s. I feel like the only thing I can do is just block. Not much else to do.
Then there comes the Aegis. Sometimes they do Shoulder into Aegis to push you in the corner, then they can do whatever they want. You’re only hope is to parry the Shoulder. The Aegis is undoubtedly the best super, he has tons of options. First you have to guess if he’s going to hit high or low, guess wrong easy 25% dmg is his and he probably has another Aegis to hit you with. The Aegis crossup I can sometimes parry, but what’s really cheap is that they can grab you out of that.
Then the last problem; let’s say I knock his ass down, get him in the corner. Bullying him does not fucking work. He again has multiple ways to escape. As noted earlier his pokes are better than mine. Jumping in is a bad idea because of his many AA’s. This is typically what happens: I knock him down, try to poke him out with tMP, tHP, sMK, etc. His pokes are better and he starts to push me away a bit. I can’t dash in due to a possible Shoulder or he could do crHP or anything that’s pretty instant. But let’s say I jump in with HP or HK, then I try to do tHP, or Powerbomb or whatever. They either jump the Powerbomb (I’m not being predictable with it, really, I don’t do it that often), or they parry any follow ups. If I try doing weird shit to throw him off like jHP, sMK, then DDT, he punches me away with Jab or does Headbutt. Empty jump in and grab rarely ever seems to work. Or sometimes they do the Kneedrop to get out of there, and there’s not much in the way of punishment I can hit them with.
I don’t see how you can bully him. It’s the other way around.
