Gimmicks are for making comebacks, you don’t need them to establish initial life leads or to hold them.
What on earth are you talking about. You act as if Blanka has gotten no better. I don’t feel like i’ve been kicked in the face at all, I feel like I’ve been given a working reversal.
None you of you will mind this minor nerf when you discover that EX horiball will now combo into U2 (probably through FADC).
Also, they are going to change U2 to “down, down, down” and give it the same properties as Hakan’s U2…
you’re mean.
I hate that they had to make it more punishable. Wish they’d make all balls safe on hit tho.
why is this a surprise? I already said before it really depends on how bad it is on block. If i’ts bad it’s bad, it’s still a buff just not as much of a buff as i initially thought. We’ve been down this road days ago. Be happy for what you get guys lol.
Blanka is all about footsies at high level i think, he have his special footsies, and you need to know perfectly every match up, and to have all useful setups on your bag.
That’w why Taku is a good Blanka, he play the real Blanka, patiently and his footsies are on point, he makes me think about Mizoteru in Vanilla, this is Blanka for me.
I think it’s fine for Blanka : scrubs online Blanka will get punished very easily, so no more random exupball, and at a good level, these changes will make Blanka more balanced, because actually now, the exupball is crap, even on hit or on block so i don’t care.
It’s like punish a random dp.
A lot of people haven’t seen enough mizoteru. Sabin explained that he rushes down hard when the opportunity presented itself. Taku i think does the same. He’s like a snapping turtle. Waits for the chance then BOOM goes. I think that’s the optimal way to play blanka personally.
I agree, I think if you have the chance you have to be aggressive offensively.
Blanka has the tools to do so, so when you get the chance you have to go for it.
Patience, look for the opening, try to get as much damage as you can until you are pushed out. Then go back to being patient. If you have the life lead after these incidents all the better because of the strength of Blanka’s downback.
Blanka’s offensive philosophy is hard to pin down because of how he is usually played improperly, and the fact that it isn’t always the most intuitive that you should throw as a punish to keep offensive momentum.
Establishing when you should be rushing down and how to do it correctly in regards to screen position is very very important.
I agree.
I think personally, Blanka is a “mixture”, i try constently to alternate my playstyle between turtle, zoning & rushdown, that depends of the match up of course, of my opponent too, what is the mind game, the situation between me and him, and this is the same for Mizoteru i know that, i watchted and rewatched his matchs in Vanilla to try to really understand his game, that’s why Taku makes me think about him in Vanilla, and that’s what i call “footsies”, all your ground game but i don’t know all about this, it’s complex and extensiv…
So when people say Blanka is only good for one thing : turtling, i disagree but it’s hard to explain, when they don’t know the character just a bit.
After hearing interviews of mike Ross and Filipino champ had to say about the Japanese blanka’s compared to the USA blanka’s I might have to rethink how I try to play blanka and I also need to look up more Japanese blanka’s footage. I’ve never been the type of player to look up other players to learn something about the character I play. From the way they are talking about blanka players in japan in ae makes our thoughts on match ups wrong. If they are correct in saying we American players really don’t know how to properly play blanka in ae I feel blanka will be top 5 character in 2012 when played on his highest level. Japan thinks blanka vs Honda is a 6-4 in blanka’s favor. They think sim vs blanka is 6-4 in blanka’s favor also. We have to open our minds to new shit. Man I wish I could go over to japan an play in the arcade scene for a month. Seeing it and playing against it would be great and it would prolly open my mind with blanka. Right now I feel like I’m in the matrix
Did they really say that in the video, because Taku said Honda is one of Blanka’s worst matchups, and with LP headbutt in 2012, it will only be worse. I believe he also said Dhalsim is even.
You are a super optimist if you believe Blanka will be top 5 in 2012…
Well they were talking about ae not ae 2012. Fubarduck also stated that blanka is very good in another vid he did and said that us usa players need to stop saying he’s not a viable character character in tournament play. On the higest level japan think blanka is high mid tier, but in the usa he is bottom mid tier to bottom tier.In the few vids I have seen I don’t notice anything super sick to my scrubby eyes. It seems like they know all of the match up’s completely while we are still learning them. A strong arcade scene>online scene. Our top players pretty much said we live in the land of scrubs and they didn’t stand a chance at sbo because the shit they get away with in the usa they couldn’t get away with in japan. I don’t know how blanka vs sim could be an even match up or in blanka’s favor, but that is how japan views the match up.
Blanka will be top 5 in 2012 and he will be the 1st character they NERF HARD before evo2k12. There is no way in hell that capcom will allow BLANKA of all characters to be a top character for it’s world championships! The most hated character in street fighter can’t be one of the best characters. They will patch blanka within 3 months. If you think the online crybabies whined about vanilla/super version blanka wait until they get whooped by 2012 blanka. It’s up to us to unlock he power. If we have to get trainning sessions that I will stream so all of us can learn from each other then that’s what I will do. Try to run a gaunlet style stream where we get a top player in any character and put him against a gaunlet of blanka’s in 1 room. What do you guys think about this idea?
blanka crushes sim once you get inside, it’s the getting inside thats the tricky part.
If you push sim to the corner it’s gg cause blanka can punish teleports so easily.
kara throw is mad good vs. sim too.
Also I would gladly play any top player online, I think I’m one of the strongest Blankas in the country and I’m ahead in technology on everyone.
It’s like that since Vanilla, why this character always has strong players in Japan who make good things, and nothing in other countries, except the mullah, it’s like you said maybe the online make Blanka more weak ?
Online Blaaggka sucks. Miss one anti-air and you’re down a massive chunk of life.
i completely disagree but you are entitled to your own opinion
That’s a very boring way to end a discussion.
Not an argument worth fighting for. Even if I win, it would be equivalent to winning gold at the special olympics…
The only drawback I can think of is somehow these false rumors perpetrate Capcom HQ and they decide to nerf Blanka yet again. I am still surprised they gave Blanka that additional nerf in the last set of changes. It didn’t bother me much, but the fact that Capcom said “hey, Blanka is too damn good, let’s nerf him” surprised me.
Calling this a nerf is just stupid.
It’s five frames on a BLOCK. If your ex-upball gets blocked, it’s already going to be punished. The people who can punish a blocked ex upball already do. If anything this is capcom telling blanka players “don’t be dumb with ex-upball”
Are there any HUGE punishes that are added by these 5 frames? If there are, I’m not currently aware, if not, who gives a fuck.