Mirror matches are always so crazy!
How can I improve in this matchup?
Hey guys. Nice to meet you all. Been out of the SF scene for a damned long while until now. Anyways, I have a question regarding match-ups:
Dudley. This guy is murdering the hell out of me. It seems like this match was easier in SSFIV, but after AE I’m just getting torn apart. F+RH is just low jab bait, and once you get into the lp, cr. lk MCB/dart-shot/throw mix-ups it just doesn’t seem like Cody has a good “Get the hell off of me” answer since he’s getting smashed with negative frames.
I used to zone this match with rocks, standing MK, MP, and the usual anti-air tools when he jumped. lp bad stone used to blow up his dashing, and lk and mk kept him from getting in, but it just doesn’t seem that simple. To be fair, again, it’s been ages since I’ve played so I could be just screwed on how I’m approaching this match now, but Dudley just gives me a hard time.
Edit: Knife? Pretty good on Dudley.
Use cammy again 
crLK is REALLY good in this match up. As is f+MP. It is a match in Cody’s favor but it’s not an EASY match by any means because you have to always be the one pressuring. Cody is free to most pressure strings or knockdown mixups. Thankfully Dudley doesn’t have a real crossup to worry about so it’s just high lows. Also Cody’s focus is good in this match as well. If Dudley is pressuring you remember that he is AT BEST -2F after a MGB so it’s almost always safe to go for a crLK or try and throw him. Also as Olympian says: Pick Cammy is often the solution to any of Cody’s hard matches since really she is just Cody 2.0 lol.
I have some trouble getting around this particular players footsies!
ROFL that video is awesome for evaluating f.hk’s value
didn’t know knife toss goes over low tiger shots. Can maybe catch them off guards and use EX ruffian to juggle. Also I like the idea of using bingo against his step kick
Pretty sure I mentioned the knife toss vs low tiger shots once before in this thread. Still always nice to refresh peoples memory of it. The problem is that it still loses flat out to high tiger shot or crLP. As for zonking low step kick there is a risk, if Sagat does kara tiger knee or tiger upper you’ll get counterhit. Also for some reason I find that occasionally I can get CH out of the startup of zonk by a step kick but USUALLY it works (like 90% of the time it works.)
I was actually thinking I should do a vid about some practical knife uses and setups. I actually found a crossup setup for FJHP with knife just the other day against Balrog (EX Ruffian - Back Dash - sLP with knife - FJ HP with knife)
Any setups with knife after U2 as you always end up dead center of the stage?
Chin has an unconventional Cody, not bad, actually he’s pretty damn good, just a bit different than the usual
He’s entertaining to watch.
pick up knife, whiff s.lp, j.hp is a 5 frame safejump iirc (can’t test at the moment).
Is that a full knife pickup or are you canceling it? Because knife pickup can be canceled to light attacks/punch based specials (no ruffians)/super after 14F but the moves total frame count if NOT canceled is 27F
LOL i had no idea
I just press st.lp after the pickup, so my guess is it’s cancelled.
You want to know something really funny? You can EX FADC a knife pickup which of course instantly drops the knife.
Yeah that has happened more often than i’d like
@Otori
One thing I genuinely don’t understand is why they SPECIFICALLY made a cancel list for specials to leave out Ruffian kicks.
The list is titled “Super_Move_P” and it has all criminal uppers (including EX), all knife throws, and fake knife throw. The ONLY time that it’s used is on knife pickup. I can’t figure out why for any balance reasons ruffian kicks would be left out. I guess knife pick up - HK Ruffian anti air was too good? But they allow super combo canceling? So you can still do HK Super which would function the same (if Super didn’t drop people constantly.) plus now that they let you block at any point during knife pick up it’s not like you’d get hit by a jump in when you go for the knife.
Cody is quite a mess huh. Yeah i can’t see any sense on that other the hk ruffian, but even that is a poor excuse since hk ruffian is pretty average and requires a lot of anticipation as an antiair.
What’s the priority on the knife pickup input? I kinda recall doing ultra 2 on top of it vs fireballs and getting knife pickup + ex criminal upper. Input screwup?