You have to be sparing and mixup your escape options. One of my very close friends plays a really good Rog and so I’ve played a lot of it. If the rushdown happens in the corner, you can kind of see him backing up after a knockdown or after a couple blockstrings because he anticipates for you to tele out. Watch for those and react accordingly. What I do is if he knocks me down in the corner. I do a delayed safe get up and see if he backs up. And when he approaches again for more rush downs, I coward copter out. Or if you have 2 ex bars you can go for a wake up shoryu and if it’s blocked FADC out and tele out right after. Jab game is your friend because it stuffs TAP’s and rush punches, but also know that Rog also has a really good jab so watch out when you try to do wake up throws and such.
Just adding my 2 to the Balrog matchup.
You can punish his TAP with HK, which will provide you a counter-hit, as you can see Tokido doing in this video at 0:31:
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Be aware of spacing and timing, this is crucial. Also, I wouldnt recommend trying this if Balrog has his Super charged, you can get punished really hard if you miss it.
Thanks for the Fuerte tips. The problem with using st.hk a lot is is El Fuerte even SMELLS that coming run back into head grab or body splash will beat it out and now you’re put into a mix up.
I think I just need to play the match more.
St.Hk doesn’t work well for me against rog. Ex’s blow right through it and rogs don’t use too many random TAPs anyway. Take it to the sky.
I think the St. HK and Focus Attacks are a big part of playing against Rog. But again it’s all being unpredictable. If you get too focus happy, his rush lower upper breaks focus and it hurts like balls. The timing and usage of st. HK is pretty important too. I’m pretty sure if he HB’s after the first hit of the RH, invincibility frames allows him to get a counter hit on you and if he has ultra… well you know how that goes. Footsies against Rog is one of the hardest I think for Akuma so getting him in a good Vortex is like the only way to secure a solid win.
is it possible to stuff rogs rush punches with a cr.mk i mean only the non ex version ??
Yeah you can. The cr. MK makes you duck underneath them. And if spaced right you can poke him out of it. Although I’m a little unsure on the rush lower upper and the rush overhead.
a properly timed c.mk will stuff all of balrog’s non-ex rushpunches
^A properly timed anything will stop all of balrogs non-ex rush punches…cMK gives you more active frames and le-way and the ability to cancel into lp dp or demon if he does ex rush punch.
Heh here is an unorthodox method I happen to come across.
Around 3:11
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He used c.MK of all attacks. It beat it cleanly and allowed for further comboing.
Whats the best way to punish guiles sweep other than the demon?
You can reversal shoryu it after the first sweep.
When lag isn’t a huge issue then LP.SRK is my choice. 130 damage and the option to FADC into a Shaku.
Is there a proper way to punish Ken’s f.mk, especially if the guy is abusing the shit out of it?
cr.mk counter hit. if u block or get hit, tele out.
is it woorth it to get a tatsu to sweep knock down on a balrog??
cause imo he has so many ways to escape akuma’s set ups.so i was wondering if it would be a good idea to just stick with the srk instead.
i got no experience in this matchup,so please ignore my noobiness if its too much of a basic question to be asking.
I’d say he’s much more devastating on his feet, so it’s in your best interest to keep him on the ground. He has a couple ways to escape wake-up mixup but not to really counter your own mixup.
Thanks for this. I’ve considered c.mp in the past but never really gave it much of a chance as I just plain avoid trades. I used this almost exclusively on a rush-happy Ken last night and shut a lot of his f.mk advances down.
I assume you guys have seen the new Super trailer? The ultra-dramatic second Ultras actually have me curious to see what kind of new devilry Akuma busts out with.
its just gonna be another demon we all know that…what im more worried about it the part where they havent balanced the game at all or worked on the characters’ new moves lol
Capcom is creating a Super Soldier, don’t worry.