God, the Baleog matchup seems horribly unbalanced for Gen now. Balrog’s specials have gotten so safe to the point where experienced Balrog players seem to get away with anything. Turn punch is ridiculous, and lp straight sure as hell didn’t need better frames. Also, EX Gekiro sucks. I get stuffed by normals all the time. Thanks to the glitch U2 I at least stand the shadow of a chance with Geb against people I murder when I use Blanka lol.
Balrog match up shouldn’t be too bad. His specials are safe, but he still needs to make decisions. Against Balrog you need a really strong neutral game. Stay on the ground until you whiff punish with sweep or bait our dash punches. You are right, Balrog is significantly stronger.
Just a secret:
At a local tourney during casuals, we found a secret buff on his non-ex overhead dash punches. PR Balrog noticed his lower hurtbox on the moves were removed! Test it yourself! Rose couldn’t slide it, sweep it…nada. Good luck sweeping random dash overheads 
or just grab em.
What the hell?!
I am pretty sure the matchup is at least 6-4. What was it in 2012? 5-5?
Wow, I am reaaaaally getting a lot of use out of pre-jump U2! So great! I don’t miss U1 for a second; it’s easy to do this technique off of most setups, Oga included.
Not related, but does anyone else have problems uploading videos to YouTube? I get the message “YouTube feature not available right now” when I am at like 40% upload on the Chun-Li and Vega screen. SO frustrating.
Gen sweep beats all overheads except ex clean
The motion would be QCB QCB UB PPP. You can see that you got the right version if:
- it connects fully against an airborne opponent (after Crane cr.lk or an Oga)
- you can see it recover much faster than normal
Balrog doesn’t seem to be too bad. Roll buff really helps here, and you can effectively switch between roll mode and hands mode, especially since Rog can be linked off of MP hands when he’s close enough.
street help me test this on Akuma
tc2 light Gekiro juggle a bit high, quick drop on the fourth follow up kick then medium Oga.
in 2012 it’s Midscreen unblockable on quickrise, crossup on delay quickrise and if they don’t quick rise neutral jump MK for a safejump
No problems so far, although I only uploaded those 2 videos. I heard some players are having trouble with the yt feature on xbox.
Been using that old setup on some characters already. I haven’ tried on Akuma yet though.
I cannot test til Monday, but most setups didnt change. They didnt nerf vertical hitbox that much, while horizontal range got a big nerf.
they nerfed Oga? damn
Big Fool…Yeah I kinda figured it out like after posting…but thanks for the reply man.
It’s pretty easy, too; I have yet to mess it up in a match.
That hit me like a nail today, our local Elf player was able to slide right under so I had to switch to U1. I’m thinking of keeping U1 at least for the Blanka, Elf, and Vega matchup.
Overall, I had good experience with U2 so far and made our Yun player fairly salty.
This new tech is amazing. I was messing around in an endless lobby with some friends of mine and literally threw it out whenever I thought people were gonna press a button. Here is a video I uploaded using the new tech at around 58 seconds in and again and 2 min and 24 seconds in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3TNUIxMJrM
I have to figure out set ups after to guarantee I get my damage. Sometimes ex far oga works for me. Didn’t actually test it.
I know it did in 2012, but in Ultra also? Interesting. hmm…wonder what it was that we saw when we were testing it the other day. maybe something changed on roses slide? ill check tonight.
I’m seriously tempted to main evil Ryu, as he is now he plays similar to Gen and has more life,does more damage and has better ambiguous shit. Gen will be my 3rdn
Though he lacks Gen’s dignity and memorability. 
I was playing today against Gief and it felt a lot more annoying. Now as he doesnt need meter for combos as desperately, can build it he almost became like gen was. If he has four bars and ultra its realy scary. One poke and you’re dead. Gen’s cr. mp is weaker even though it’s only 10 damage it adds up, super is weaker so it doesnt realy work to save it till the end.
Also add Raging demon (super) to the bucketlist of cr. mp xx hands punishes.
Anyone else having a rough time fighting against T-Hawk now? 