How does this work? When he’s crossing you up from straight above…won’t the EX Zonk (assuming I can even get it out) make me travel in such a way that I’m facing the wrong direction, not hit him, and leave me wide open?
if he is straight above you, use cFP, b+MP, or forward dash
It seems when Rufus is in rapid fire dive kick mode, there just isn’t enough time to get the move out. I wish I had friended the guy doing it to me so I could practice things against a live person.
You can either play the block/tech game or Focus Absorb back dash.
Your best option is to not let him get in on you for this non-sense to happen in the first place. Use your anti-air options to knock his fatass to the ground and when Rufus has no-meter/ultra do your best to get in as much damage as possible and when he gets meter try to bait out ex-messiah and punish or keep him at a distance and hold on to your health advantage.
I guess you never played CvS2 much, that roll is too easy to counter-throw. Abel’s “roll-pressure” as you put it is solely based on the other player getting spooked. Once you see it enough times this strategy becomes inefective. Look, I never said Abel was a trash character and honestly I don’t like the idea of putting numbers (6-4, for example) because that tends to put a mental block on somone: “Oh I lost to Abel because the match up is 6-4 his favor” Fuck all that mess. Abel has a hell of a mixup game that’s had a year to develop. Cody is brand new. When you look at the move sets that Abel has to get in versus the move sets that Cody has to keep him out I believe Cody can outperform him. I suppose time will tell. :tup:
Not sure if this will work or not but am going to test later tonight; punishing Akuma’s teleport with U2.
Will it blend?
i agree with you ppl tend to use that as a crutch,and you obviouly never used abels roll effectively because a well timed roll means a TT or knockdown especially against Fireball characters.its not a gimmick but should be used with disgression.on top of that abel has a beastly dash that i would compare to codys
I agree on this.
Tested it- it works. Timing is hard, but you get the feel eventually. Time it as you would a meaty if you were baiting out the teleport normally and it will connect. I think you may even be able to option select into U2 from a teleport just like against seth/bison/sim!
Yeah the timing is quite hard but it IS possible at least.
So can someone make an updated counter pick/ match up list ? I dont like playing online and i have played only half the cast offline. Some characters worry me like ryu and sagat. I could also see how akuma could be very hard. Another thing i wanna mention is match ups change depending on someone’s skill level. So dont be afraid to be wrong cause a year from now everyone will be wrong anyways 
EDIT- guile also seems like a really hard match up.
take this with a grain of salt because these are all winable
-t.hawk
-sim,akuma
-sagat
-guile
-abel
Are you saying these are characters he beats, or gets beaten by?
matches that mistakes can mean major damage or loss,basically if not played perfectly can give cody a tough time
T.Hawk is free for Cody, there’s no way he’s getting in. And Sagat isn’t too bad either.
Haha its funny you mention t hawk. I know what you mean one missed link and T hawk command grabs you. But i found that QCF+ HK beats alot of t hawks air game. I would just jump alot upclose vs t hawk. You will eat a uppercut here and there but in the end you get free combo’s on T hawks missed command grabs. When T hawk stop’s trying to command grab you so much you can sneak in some grabs with cody. When you are right in T hawks face jumping he cant do much. Still its tough because T hawk has high defense and cody rely’s so much on his combo’s. But i think at a high level of play cody beats t hawk 8/10 .
EDIT: watch for t hawks anti air ultra
Def not free. Try playing a T. Hawk or Zangief who’s adamant on just walking towards you and not diving/greenhanding or jumping in like a dumbass to close the distance. No amount of rocks will keep either away from you for too long. Then it’s K.O in no time lol.
I have played good Hawk and Gief players, and they are free for Cody.
Online cody vs T hawk would be alot harder because you will mess up your links alot more.
can you explain why they are free? I semi agree with you i just wanna know how you win 10 out of 10.