is there anything that can punish honda mp/hp/ex headbutt?
On block? I don’t think so.
You can DP it tho.
dude I cant beat a good rufus for the life of me, some guy online named efc e ALWAYS beats me. that stupid ass messiah kick can just be thrown out anytime it seems and I have no answer
Rufus has almost no unsafe moves. shrug.
I find I do well against Rufus if I stay grounded and focus on my zoning game. fs.hp is also effective as an AA against his dive kick.
I tend to be wary of (mashed) EX messiash kicks when I’m close as that crap breaks through anything sloppy.
Stay outta the air when he has Ultra or meter though. Ultra is stupid easy for him to land and j.hk > EX snake strike is particularly damaging on Akuma.
Ok, besides buffering ultra from s.hk what can be done against ultra scrubby akumas who just jump back all day ? It gets kinda boring to just focus all the fireballs, demon them, and repeat.
Sometimes you just have to play their game, or disrupt it. If they’re that predictable with jumping back I’m sure you can figure out ways to push forward. Try walking forward.
Would it be possible to time shaku’s for them to land on or?
its hard to do taht cause u dont want to be hit with an air fireball but u could do that i know i have. its better to just dash under them, focus then demon them, or just beat them till they leave u alone LOL
I just got DEMONED out of a fierce SRK. Someone explain.
he caught u before ur active frames got u in the start up of the srk. shit happens lol.
Aren’t I invincible? I used fierce, not EX though, so could he grab me out of EX?
Son of a bitch too man, he had NO LIFE, and I had probably… 595 life.
ex is the only one that he couldnt grab u out of and yea u arent invincible all the way with fierce.
Entirely possible, in fact, once in a blue moon I bait the dp with Akuma’s overhead. When timed properly, if they went for a reversal shoryu, they have no option but to eat the ultra.
yea kara demon ftw
His HP DP has i frames from 1-6, and is active on frame 3… you must have been at point blank range when his ultra still had its own i frames, and got caught while his ultra still had them after yours ran out. That’s the only thing I can think of.
I’d just like to say that I think Honda is Akuma’s toughest match up and might be the only one he is at a slight disadvantage with. Akuma can’t generate any real offense and constantly has to be on the run doing barely any damage at all while Honda bull dogs him down with insane chip damage and rocks his world for any small mistakes.
I really hate this fight.
^I personally think rufus is akuma’s worst match-up but honda isn’t far behind nor is blanka. blanka and rufus can duck the second HK and honda has to focus to punish it (which can lead to demon). They all have higher than 1000 life and rufus has 1150-fuckin really Ono? 1150!!?!?! the only problem is both honda and rufus to lots-o-dmg and on akumas 15 year old girl like frame it doesn’t take alot. All in all at the worst 5-5 I’d say I can deal with them.
Hey, looking at the results of Barfights and seeing that Shady K got 3rd place with Akuma, it got me thinking?
Is there any website that keeps tracks of how Akuma has been doing in Japanese tournaments?
Akuma is considered to be top 3, and I agree with that, but as good as he is, you almost never see him winning tournaments in the states, so I wondered how it was in Japan.
Akuma arguably is the second best character in the game(sorry folks, he’s not better than Sagat), but Ryu is far more consistent, at least here. Alex Valle has been tearing it up at pretty much any tourney he enters. Rufus has also been doing better than Akuma in the states.
Akuma’s health means that in tournaments you have to play a lot more “perfect” than a lot of other characters. This is possibly why he’s not winning, regardless of the perception that he is top 3 in the tiers.
I repeat, I do believe Akuma is top 3. Just saying = P
At a tournament, it is A LOT EASIER to get randomed out with akuma than it is with ryu