well, you do have to know how to react!
Blanka will be more cheap in 2012 ah ah ah
a good example why is blanka cheap in the eyes of non-blanka player 
some of the comments are pretty funny 
Tokido should hate Blanka too, he loses a lot against good Blankas.
He’s cheap because of the way he’s been designed to be used like you said he doesn’t really use normals purelyspecials and I’m sure every cunt on this page complains when a ken is rubbing shoryukens… The truth is he sucks because you have to play by his game you have to counter otherwise you take to much damage and he’s really really difficult to frame trap… Get him in the corner then we’re talking otherwise you just have to make good reads and punish him he is cheaper than allot of the cast…
Blanka is not cheap…
as someone who mained blanka at a point, i’ll explain why people get annoyed. ofcourse everyone here is going to have a biased reply like "learn the match-up and ull be fine’ or ‘dont suck at this and you’ll be fine.’
as someone with a B+ (10,000+ rank with balrog, sagat, rose, ryu, ken, dhalsim) and a B in plenty other characters, i find blanka matchups by far the most annoying, hence why i google searched to learn tactics.
i pretty much start ALL matches against blanka dy doing a crouching lightpunch piano or whatever its called to avoid the Light Roll into grab nonsense…
His jump in’s are difficult to punish
no point throwing fireballs if he has more than 1 an ex-bar
his move where u hold back and then forward+kick has a pretty fucked up cross-up mechanic. It appears that it will land infront but it crosses up.
his slide has a lot of range.
overall, contrary to what people say, countering his roll isnt simple if you dont have atleast a bar
his forward+KKK cross up and then crouching Heavy Kick knockdown is difficult to predict … so a player can do that twice … and then just blanka roll u on the next wakeup
the blanka roll can cross-up upon wake and its extremely difficult to predict a normal hit or cross up
in addition to al these special crossup options, his jumping MK crosses up to, and it combos into until normals like a crouching HK
this is why i find it annoying. other characters who are very skilled, i can learn them out (like akuma jump back hadouken spammers, or zangief jump over dive + lariat spammers … well i only know how to fight the zangief spammers with shoto characters)
im trying to find ways to EFFECTIVELY beat blanka players, hence why im bumping this thread.
"WHY IS BLANKA CHEAP?"
Because he’s on sale…
As a blanka main … I wouldn’t call myself an anti blanka master but at least I know what to look for and can hold my ground even if i play as t hawk in this match.
Here’s dome tips.
- know that punishing lp,mp,hp and ex ball is different recognize which ball is coming at you and if your character can punish whic h ball with what type of moves.
Be able to distinguish which ball they are using before you block it. In general hp and ex ball moves and rolls significantly faster than lp and mp ball.
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know the range of the ball lp ball stops at the range start of round, mp ball stops exactly fight in front of opponent if standing at max full range. Hp and ex goes further and requires more than full screen
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how fast are your reactions? I played players who can punish most ball before it reach them with do. Others can counter with cr.mp. and for myself I got slow reactions so I rely on mashing cr.lp but my anti blanka knowledge is strong enough do it’s still ok
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horizontal ball is the only ball that breaks armor WITJOUT reversal. So blanka main weakness is FA. His double hit move requires him to stand close range. Even his annoying jump hk is weak against FA because of how far it reaches down, and since he’s a charge character he can’t ex up all you when he lands.
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know when he’s in range for slides. And know how to punish it.
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if you play a fireball character, it’s much harder to slide under a fast fireball mid range compared to a slow one despite most of the time you feel slow one recovers faster…it’s actually easier for blanka to punish
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know when blanka had charge, if he doesn’t he’s weak against FA, this point is a repeated tip because it’s that important.
Hope this helps. Honestly though this is just advice on how to brat a General blanka players only which covers majority of them imo., if they ate specialist you’ll need to learn specifics yourself
I know that for me, Blanka pisses me off to no end. The issue is not that I think he is too good or anything, but rather because every time I get hit by one of his gimmicks I feel like a total scrub. No other character makes me feel as bad about my sf4 ability. That and Capcom decided that costume 3 was a good decision…
Blankas homeless of course hes cheap.