People focusing it has nothing to do with it : you have to aim behind, and trigger the FBA once you’ve crossed up. It’s a matter of timing in fact.
Btw regular FBAs are still a bad idea against focusing opponents. They’ll just dash backwards instead of foward, you’ll get nailed anyway. Instead, you should either :
— Do EX fBA (two hits, but you have to be closer to get the second one)
— Or go for the izuna drop. Consistently achieving Izuna drop is harder to than FBA cross-up, because you need to be much closer to your opponent (range is 0.6, maybe one of the smallest in the game X_X), but is worth learning. =)
Thanks for the info. Yeah I always go for Izuna, but when I have no meter or want to chip them out I go for a FBA rather than an unsafe RCF and also when Im playing a laggy online match it skips certain frames so the Izuna drop becomes harder.
On block, on any version of RCF (but light one would be better if poking) you’re at -2, which is safe to fastest jabs (3 framers). And you could always FADC out (or in) of it if blocked.
At the contrary, FBA is a heavily telegraphed move that skilled opponents will see coming a mile away, and if they focus it you’re at - 31 ! I know because i often train against a good Guy player who always focus foward dash then bushin chain them (24 frames to 250+ damage ).
So if you wann’a be safe, FBA is not the move you’ll be wanting to use. ^^
Ah thanks for the info… RCF LP it will be from now on then ;). I only play Vega as a break from my usual characters… but he seems fun to use Ill stick with him.
Extremely fun to use… he has a wide range of tricky tactics, and his damage output can be much higher than one would expect. He’s difficult to play though, because of his shitty defense, but very rewarding once you’ve mastered it.
Yes, and Akuma can cancel both his normals and his teleport into Ultra, but that is beside the point. Point is that you aren’t in danger of being punished by a cancel into Ultra (outside of the already mentioned situations, like Dan super xx ultra), when you’re trying to punish the recovery of a special, unlike what TriasNT stated earlier.
Hey guys, I heard charge characters like Vega and Guile use devices to help them with the charge timing. What is it that they use? Is it a metronome or something? Thanks.
i dont use any device, i use normals. i know if i jump in any direction, if i hold for a split second after i land, i have charge everytime. or like if i do cr mk or mp raw, i know i have a charge a split second after recovery. i find it alot easier to know ur charge time and hide them so no one actually knows when your charging.
EX TU and hope you’re lucky. You wont get grabbed out of it, but if you whiff Vega will recover way ahead of you and put you back in the same situation. So yeah, try to hit it.
Can’t Sagat crouch to make it harder to grab?
Sure, he will eat a Claw Strike for sure. But it will be only 60~99 dmg and the situation will be reseted.
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