I’ll say switching to decapre after blanka, matchup character specifics outside of combos is way less work.
Blanka I had to footsie with all sorts of buttons at different ranges for different characters, and had to learn different strings and eyeball character specific spacings to make balls safe. Constantly buffer electricity, react to things much quicker, and have to read my opponent.
With Decapre most everything is safe if you just do it at max range or “lowest”, and st.hp and cr.mk pretty much do everything in footsies you could want. Oh i went to slide and you didn’t throw a fireball? I’ll just cancel my slide. It’s easier to punish stuff, and if i get in trouble i can just mash ex strike or drill and get 300+ damage for no effort or get chip and pressure.
I played Yun for about 6 months in AE2012, then shifted around the cast. Now I’m back to Yun and can’t auto win. I thought he was in his own tier? What gives SRK?
I don’t find her much of a threat tbh, maybe cause I play Bison/Ken. She definitely stomps on people who fall for the pound shenanigans. I did say I was gonna main her or at least explore when this game came out, but she doesn’t seem so fun outside of the gimmicks.
Shitty in this case meaning this character probably won’t be good enough to win a major on his/her own.
Oh, look I got under somebody’s skin because guess what? I’m right.
If somebody can explain to me why does a slightly extended cr.mk help Viper when
-It’s 7 frame start up
Has trouble comboing into mp.tk at certain ranges depending on the hit animation of the opponent
When cancelled into any of her specials, isn’t a true block string
-Red Focus from Medium Punch thunder knuckle whiffs depending on distance, hit animation, crouching/standing.
-Doesn’t help against someone who can dive kick and kill you with one combo.
Then I’d greatly appreciate it.
You’re right. Fuck Viper, fuck fuerte, fuck abel, fuck cammy ambiguous/unblockable jump ins, fuck evil ryu, fuck yun, fuck ibuki, fuck anyone who’s sole purpose is to do mixups until youre dead. Because that isn’t street fighter.
I think Akuma can potentially run away from chun effectively but not forever. She will definitely output more damage in the long run because she will get in eventually.
But up close and mid range is really tough for Akuma.
It helps because it gives her a good button to play footsies, and with EX Seismo you can bypass them, or you can feel out the opponent and go for a fullscreen burn kick, or you can go for a jump HK, it’s another tool that can lead into a ton of damage and stun or Ultra for 3 meters. Viper’s mixups rely on soft knockdowns from burnkicks, so your shit is pretty much the same as 2012. You can do even bigger damage with your shit than any divekick character except Cammy when she does EX CS with Viper’s FFF combos.
A ton of characters have things to complain about, but to say that Viper isn’t good because her cr.MK isn’t a completely dominant footsie button is asinine. Wolfkrone may be the only player who has won a tournament with Viper, but he also has really weird opinions about matchups, ragequits online and is completely wrong about Viper’s strength in Ultra. She’s not the best character in the game, but she’s damn good and you’re blind if you can’t understand how with your own eyes when you see people like Jayce go ham at SEAM.
I don’t know where people got the misconception that SF is only about the ground game and shit like that. You’re not talking about Street Fighter, you’re talking about Samurai Showdown.
There’s only one character that I can’t stand and it’s El Fuerte, other than that I don’t have beef with anyone. But those are characters that you rarely see online, particularly Viper and Fuerte.
Honestly , I just straight up disagree with the man. Viper I think , is possibly the best character in the game.
Damage - check
Ultra - check
Wake up - check check check
Forward moving special - check
Overhead - check
Mix ups - check
Corner game - fucking check
full screen game - check
Anti Air - doesn’t matter since the bitch levitates the whole round but even then she can Dp - twice and has long range AA
What the hell doesn’t Viper have? Dude’s bitching than his cr.mk ain fast enough? Who the fuck Dp’s in between Viper strings anyway… and you can’t focus because it breaks glass.
Lunatic.
If Bonchan can get to the final with the weakest version of Sagat in history then you can shove your thunder knuckles up your ass.
Also: Frame traps with specials, great chip options, builds great meter, can alter jump arc, can avoid fireballs on ground or in air, safe on block true blockstrings that chip, good walk speed, slightly above average dash distances with average frame data, and one of the best characters at utilizing EX RF.
The only thing she is missing is super dominating normals (other than her F+MP which is one of the best overheads in the game in terms of having a huge hitbox and safety due to being airborne + having a relatively small hurtbox and incredibly fast recovery.)
