The SFV Lounge: SRK is ALIVE. AE Hype is BACK! DISCORD going the way of DISCO

Bea_Iank · February 21, 2018, 6:15pm

Tokido dropping Akuma for Blanka in T-5 minutes. :lol:
Seriously, it seemed like Akuma had very few options against Blanka on that match.

KingCrimson · February 21, 2018, 6:36pm

Everything okay @Edmund? Good to see you back!

KingCrimson · February 21, 2018, 6:41pm

GetTheTables:

KingCrimson:

FilthySpecs:

KingCrimson:

Try learning Cammy, she is better to learn the fundamental stuff of this game than Ryu is, IMO.

Where are you located? I’m near Toronto, Canada. If you’re not too far, we can run some sets and I give you some pointers.

Haha, Cammy’s who I have been maining, but I fear I’ve got too much braindead muscle memory with her. I’m a goddamned festival of midscreen spiral arrows the second I get flustered.

I’m in Denver… if you’re up for a few online games, though, I’d appreciate any pointers.

Denver should be okay. Send me a friend request to my CFN “OldManRage”. I also just sent you a long PM.

When you get flustered, to just try walking forward and be ready to block. Pretty much the last thing you want to do is a normal, raw, Spiral Arrow.

Whenever you guys can meet up you should run some of the grounded normal drills. It would also be good for FilthySpecs since that is sort of how you want to approach the game with Cammy anyways.

I found those drills really helpful when we did them. I think it also helps to get more comfortable in matches and not get too nervous, or let the nerves push you to bad decisions. One of the most valuable things to get down early.

Hopefully I can hop on tonight for a bit in the evening. Not sure if I’ll have time for matches or just training mode but I’ll be happy to play regardless.

I forgot about those drills! That would help @FilthySpecs with Cammy…

I remember the main goal is that one person was on offence, and the other was on defence, am definitely the roles changed every round. The defender never put out an attack and only walked, dashed, jumped, blocked, and teched throws. The defender would win if the timer reached 0 and they were still alive. Eventually we added AA’s and punishes to very unsafe moves to the defender’s arsenal… Was there anything else we did GetTheTables?

Vhozite · February 21, 2018, 6:46pm

Looks like they slimmed your face a bit and threw a wig on lol.

Still better than Sherry too.

FilthySpecs · February 21, 2018, 7:49pm

I am definitely down for a training lounge, and I really appreciate the offers of help.

Tonight probably won’t work (my wife is coming off of back-to-back night shifts at the hospital, and I’ll want to spend some focused time with her), but if you guys are game, maybe tomorrow night would work.

Bea_Iank · February 21, 2018, 7:53pm

I am down for tomorrow night for the training lounge. No problem whatsoever.

HNIC_Mike · February 21, 2018, 7:54pm

DevilJin_01:

Things with Blanka so far.

Neutral jump HP will be one of his go to AA’s. This has always been good as an air to air based AA since ST. Mainly because it works where he extends his arm without committing to any movement. Can do early neutral jump HP to catch people jumping early like before. The hit box itself doesn’t stuff buttons as well as in other games, but if you use it early can still counter hit people out of jump attack attempts.

Whiff punishment is pretty solid with sweep and slide. Sweep is like Karin’s with slightly faster start up (8 frame start up, Karin is 9). If your reactions are good you can catch whiffed c.MK’s and heavier buttons with his sweep pretty easily. Slide can punish heavy buttons on whiff reaction wise and can use it to punish predictable medium footsie attempts. His slide can pretty easily whiff punish Abigail’s s.HP so if he whiffs at anything but an irrelevant range you get a free slide.

s.HP CC can easily be hit confirmed into command dash. Very good to catch people being predictable with pokes and confirming into dash and combo if it hits. The s.HP itself is minus 6 on block, so certain characters with fast ranged EX moves like Chun Li you’ll want to use it more as a counter poke/buffer than to force them to block. Against most other characters you can fish for it more easily.

Command hop and V Skill allow him to be very mobile on the ground and can easily get into pressure/throw range off one good hop or V Skill.

V Skill into HP follow up is a great anti air. Can just go into coward crouch and watch for someone to jump. HP follow up into MK/HK up ball does about 160 - 180 damage and 200+ stun.

Landing electricity on hit will be important as it’s basically free oki aftewards and push towards the corner.

Combos into LK upball are preferable when you can get them as also great oki after.

Don’t see why he should have much problems vs Ryu. V Skill crouch any fireball attempted from a far range and then once you walk in you’re easily within range to slide or sweep any other fireball attempt. Basically once Blanka walks within about half screen he can’t throw fireballs safely anymore. Baiting him by going to coward crouch is strong as well since the kick hop follow up arc will easily hop over and punish any predictable patterns in his fireballs.

s.MP is another solid poke/whiff punisher. 0 on block and combos into s.LP on counter hit.

Idk i played like 10 Blankas last night ranging from diamond up to ultra diamond and i dont think i got hit once by slide under a fireball. Every time it hit it was random catching me not crouch blocking.

KingCrimson · February 21, 2018, 7:57pm

Tomorrow night won’t be good for me. I may have a few minutes to hop on, but Friday or the weekend should be better for me, but please don’t let that stop you. Also, please check your PM’s. I watched two replays and gave you some tips.

Flack0 · February 21, 2018, 7:58pm

At first glance Blanka seems OK?

If your style is more footsies it’s gonna be hard playing like that with Blanka. The character stronger areas are fast unpredictabe movement.

St.mp is his best poke but doesn’t link into anything (only VTC)

Im so use too Bison’s long dikk normals I forgot half the cast got stubby normals damn.

GetTheTables · February 21, 2018, 8:30pm

KingCrimson:

GetTheTables:

KingCrimson:

FilthySpecs:

KingCrimson:

Try learning Cammy, she is better to learn the fundamental stuff of this game than Ryu is, IMO.

Where are you located? I’m near Toronto, Canada. If you’re not too far, we can run some sets and I give you some pointers.

Haha, Cammy’s who I have been maining, but I fear I’ve got too much braindead muscle memory with her. I’m a goddamned festival of midscreen spiral arrows the second I get flustered.

I’m in Denver… if you’re up for a few online games, though, I’d appreciate any pointers.

Denver should be okay. Send me a friend request to my CFN “OldManRage”. I also just sent you a long PM.

When you get flustered, to just try walking forward and be ready to block. Pretty much the last thing you want to do is a normal, raw, Spiral Arrow.

Whenever you guys can meet up you should run some of the grounded normal drills. It would also be good for FilthySpecs since that is sort of how you want to approach the game with Cammy anyways.

I found those drills really helpful when we did them. I think it also helps to get more comfortable in matches and not get too nervous, or let the nerves push you to bad decisions. One of the most valuable things to get down early.

Hopefully I can hop on tonight for a bit in the evening. Not sure if I’ll have time for matches or just training mode but I’ll be happy to play regardless.

I forgot about those drills! That would help FilthySpecs with Cammy…

I remember the main goal is that one person was on offence, and the other was on defence, am definitely the roles changed every round. The defender never put out an attack and only walked, dashed, jumped, blocked, and teched throws. The defender would win if the timer reached 0 and they were still alive. Eventually we added AA’s and punishes to very unsafe moves to the defender’s arsenal… Was there anything else we did GetTheTables?

That was the defensive drill set, which would be good to work on eventually too.

I was referring to the offensive sets we played with restrictions. No specials, no V Skills, no jumping initially. Just focusing on staying grounded and trying to get a feel for how exchanging normals feels. Those are some of the best drills to focus on IMO.

@FilthySpecs Feel free to add me on CFN as well. Same name as my forum handle. KingCrimson and I ran a good number of training sets based on stuff he found and that helped me a lot, so I’m always up for running sets like that whenever anyone is interested. I’m in Maryland so hopefully the connections will be decent; even if its a little rollback-y running drills is still doable. In SFV sometimes you have to fight the netcode as much as the other person.

GetTheTables · February 21, 2018, 8:50pm

Double post: There is a banner (that I missed the first time I scrolled past; it is really small) giving us the heads up that the forums are going down soon for the migration.

Catch you all on the other side.

Trife88 · February 21, 2018, 8:57pm

Just want to give a pre-fuck you to laggy Blanka players, haven’t played yet

Also my neighbor is moving and he gave me a free server…literally
with 2 SSDs and over 12 gigs of ram (can’t use Server Ram for regular use FML)

I am going to host my own Capcom Fighters Network and ban all foreign players (No disrespect to you guys)

Bea_Iank · February 21, 2018, 8:59pm

Since the forums might get locked soonish, what is your CFN so I can add you when I get home today?
While the forums are down, discord might be an option for us to set up the lounge and discuss how the matches went and what actions you should have taken to win the match and so on.

Edmund · February 21, 2018, 9:03pm

Yeah much better already. Thanks!

Glad to see everyone here posting and enjoying the game as usual, even helping out newcomers!! And also to be here before the server migration.

KingCrimson · February 21, 2018, 9:04pm

Discord?!?!?! Aaaaaarrrrggggghhhhhh!

bchan009 · February 21, 2018, 9:05pm

Why use discord when my forum is open? B)

srk2.com

Bea_Iank · February 21, 2018, 9:05pm

Come to the darkside! We have cookies and kittens.

FilthySpecs · February 21, 2018, 9:08pm

My CFN and Discord handles are FilthySpecs, too. Looking forward to running some drills and sets!

KingCrimson · February 21, 2018, 9:08pm

You have neither… You have walls of text with no substance!

… May have to keep up with it though in the meantime. Will also linger srk2.com and our zetaboard (see link in my sig).

Bea_Iank · February 21, 2018, 9:13pm

We also have @DiasFox’s art!