First point: Hard Kick? What the hell? I know WAY better than to try blindly sweeping with a shoto. The recovery is crap, and even in lag, that’s a free Cr.MK->Shippu (meter permitting) when someone tries that on me. You must be confusing me with someone else here, or you misread the original post. IMO, the latter is much more likely.
Second point: The MK->FB issue. ‘If it’s blocked’, being the key phrase. Honestly, what good does simply saying ‘this can happen’ do if they don’t see it for themselves? DO it and then after it costs a couple matches, THEN say something. That, IMO, is the best way for anyone to learn, and how I’ve done things when facing shotos that do like to throw sweeps in my face, or a Chun that abuses SBKs. I should point out that yes, I know there are times that it can be punished, even on hit, and when I’m facing those characters, I don’t do that.
On the other hand, I noticed when I tried to switch my followup from FBs to Hurricanes, you had something to say about that, too.
Just what, then, was I supposed to do, if you’d already read me the riot act for pretty much everything I did try? Hell, I bet if I just stood there, you’d have a reason to bitch then, too.
Third point: I’ve already been convinced of Shippu’s effectiveness earlier in the thread. This is now moot.
I don’t have a problem with your finding the one biggest fault with someone’s game and enlightening them on it, but please don’t tell them that “everything you do is wrong”. That there is exactly how it sounded to me, which explains the annoyed tone in my post.
As for the ‘spamming Genei pattern’ part, I was referring to having been blocking during the startup, and also blocking shoulder after shoulder after shoulder. i guess next time I’ll know what I’m gonna do when that starts…