Vega Match-Ups Thread: I Only Understand the Pain of Being too Strong and Beautiful

Come to think of it, we’re lucky it doesn’t do like 200 damage on Vega, considering how Vega should react after being hit with something so filthy.

Any tips for Sim? Lack of FA makes it kind of difficult to move forward on him. Wall dives will just get slid under or anti aired. Does V Skill or ASE help at all?

Wait for him to try to get close, then fuck his ass up and stay on top of him.

Also, ASE hits limbs. Use it.

If you ever see sim jump and you have meter, ex barcelona his ass. He might get smart and start teleporting, though.

i used a lot of v-skill against his limbs when i fought a good sim yesterday at an event in Rome

I fucking hate the Necalli matchup. Keeping him out feels like a lost cause, even against the shittiest of them. I swear it’s like his entire hurtbox shrinks into his head whenever he jumps. I need all the anti-Necalli tech I can get.

Still having problems on every grappler, especially birdie. They have armor moves, AA, and so on, and it feels like my attacks whiff through them because there isn’t enough range on them. Maybe just me, but these seem like the most difficult ones so far.

Used Ken’s mp dp on wake up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xW7XQeu5Bk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RguyLGD1tvk

Other than Zangief, I can agree. Laura has been handing me my ass on a silver platter; Don’t think I’ve won a single match against one that wasn’t just mashing.

I only have problems with Nash and Bison so far. Others I either beat or it is close. Good Nash’s and Bison is a match I gotta study.

Thanks for crediting me, asshole.

Sorry :frowning:

Same here RagingStormX. It’s making me flashback to some of the more oppressive matchups in SF4.

Vs Birdie leaping grab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifKCm2Hj6pg

So against Karin I’ve taken to almost exclusively using clawless stance. She doesn’t have a single special (except for maybe the V-Trigger exclusive special) that can’t be punished pretty hard by a clawless Vega. Her pokes seem really solid too, so she can give claw stance trouble anyway if you’re just throwing buttons out there.

After fighting some Sims, claw st.hp shuts down a lot of his teleporting gimmicks. Press that shit as soon as you see the flash. It’s riskier, but you can also throw out st.hk and hope for the CC, but it isn’t as consistent. St.lp can also stuff him if you react late. If he teleports higher up (like after IOH j.lp), you’re better off just trying to avoid what ever he does while maintaining the spacing you want.

Also, if he throws a fireball too close you can slide or EX roll on reaction to gain a lot of ground on him if you don’t tag him. Anything around or closer than (claw on) st.mp range and you can get in that ass. Once you have V-Trigger and/or CA stocked you can shutdown his fireball gimmicks.

Don’t try jumping in on him, you will almost never make it unless you read one of his heavy buttons. His AA game is on point.

This is just a preference, but so far I think Claw ON is better for this fight, and go BH when he eventually puts himself in the corner or I get in.

As it stands, Cammy or at least a half decent Cammy rapes Vega.

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Used Ken’s mp dp on wake up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xW7XQeu5Bk

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Going to check in a while, but isn’t his jab shoryu the one with more invincibility on startup, and the one you would use to AA on wakeup? I don’t know how much things have changed, but strong was always his main AA while standing, or at least when he wasn’t rising from a knockdown. Also, it looks like you setup the recording to do the shoryus. If that’s the case, instead you would want to record the setup you’re going for with Vega, and control Ken manually to see if you can escape it.

No, jab SRK can be beat by a meaty jab. l.SRK is AA only, not a get off me.