Excellent videos. Very entertaining and informative. You have great defense and patience. I like the dash up c.lk after SPD. Looking forward to watching more of your matches. What are the worst matchups for you?
Can’t wait to watch those plat vids right after I’m done with this post. My progress is slow but good. These are both sets to 2, not just one match. Within the set at times I am very bad, but sometimes I’m very good. Hit confirming HP into V-Trigger has become natural, and so has headbutting on wakeup. I still play around with RBG too much, and the one or two times I bust it out without EX is just plain moronic. As always, thanks for the help, guys, you are my main resource for improving and you’ve given me so much already. I really appreciate it, this is an awesome little corner of these boards and it makes me happy.
My favorite part of these is the last round in the last match against Karin (7:14 in the vid). It was like the game slowed down and I turned into a beast. Yeah, she got me with the CA or whatever, but I was too deep in her head at that point. I’m really proud of that round.
Against those very random mashy Kens it is matter of adjusting your strategy so that they hang themselves. Play good defense. Immediately after one special move came another. He tagged you with a lot of wakeup dps and dps after your CR.jab x3. Against these guys who wakeup DP 80% of the time I just safely try to bait out the DP rather than go for a meaty. Let them whiff a few dps first. To go along with that, you missed a few good punish opportunities on blocked or whiffed DP by using lariat instead of St.HK (or St.HP I suppose but this is a bit riskier since he would have been mashing out another DP immediately). On St.HK crush counter you can follow it up with instant air ex SPD for 288 damage or just headbutt them if you need stun or at meterless.
You know full screen rbg is suicide. It will never land.
Great job applying meaty pressure. Consider using CR.MP after headbutt if it hits. I saw you go with headbutt then jabs. You can do headbutt, CR.MP, CR.jab instead for a bit more damage. To mix this up later in the round you can drop the CR.jab and go for SPD instead once they’ve seen this combo.
Keep up the good work you’re definitely getting better!
Rich, something else to keep in mind when playing against this Ken is that tatsu is -8 on block at best (at least according to SRK wiki someone correct me if I’m wrong). SPD has a 5 frame startup so as long as you start mashing the hell out of spd while blocking tatsu for the reversal it’s free. I saw you do it a few times but could definitely have done it more frequently. Against a player like this no need to take the risk jumping either since he kept tagging you with the HK tatsu in the air which would have landed into your spd if you play the waiting game and block. Gotta punish that unsafe junk!
I was playing in battle lounge with friends of a friend. One guy decided to broadcast our matches so here we go. Ended with a 26 or something game win streak. Let this video be for beginners/maybe intermediate players only though. This really only shows how to punish and easily defeat players that are random and like to abuse specials/wake ups. By no means will the amount of jumping I did work on higher level players that anti-air, but these guys didn’t and were punished severely for it. So, if you’re new to the game or losing to lower level spammy shotos let this video be a guide to you. Solid defense, patience, and pokes win these matches. Let them hang themselves.
I feel this set is extremely informative on how to play zangief. A lot of what he does comes from knowing valle’s style, but you can see giefs strengths and weakness and how snake eyes conditions Valle into his strengths.
Don’t watch to say snake eyes is awesome. Watch how he loses, and how he adapts to the situation. How he abuses valle’s tendencies, and how he conditions Valle to act certain ways.
@mesenkomaha this should help a lot of new players, much of lower level SF is punishing properly. Everyone just needs to make sure they keep proper fundementals while playing these people. It’s too easy to find something that works, and forgot how to play without a certain gimmick, approach, or setup.
Awesome I was hoping you would post that Sim video. Will check out!
Fantastic. I am a big fan of yours Alex. Great way of approaching the Mika matchup. Keep her at neutral and avoid her f.MP at all costs. St.HP on all of her gimmicky drop kicks was great. Seems like an easy matchup for us so long as we don’t get whipped to the corner.
Learned a lot from the Sim matchup too. Lariat beats out teleport stuff most of the time. In round three of match one you used jab spd three times when MP SPD would have worked. With how hard it is to get in on him I think in this matchup we need to be more careful with remaining as close as possible. I loved how he seemed to be out of answers and kind of panicked in the final round of match 3.
I just beat a near 5000 Dhalsim. Vskill seems to be the key and use LP SPD. Also, st. LP for anti air. Most Sims, when hit in the air, will instant teleport the moment they touch the ground to escape.
