It's ugly. I think Cammy is a worse matchup, but the difference is that I can lose to any Blanka at any time. I still beat weaker Cammys pretty easily. It's only the ones that know what they're doing that give me trouble. With Blanka, his speed is really a lot for Dhalsim to deal with. His electricity is great at handling teleports. His EX Blanka balls completely eliminate Dhalsim's fireball game (along with the slides) and the diaganal balls really hurt Dhalsim's jumping game. If a Blanka gets me in a corner, there's almost no way out without taking some damage. And possibly the biggest problem I have is the damage differential. I am constantly punishing Blanka's mistakes but all it takes is one or two hits and it's all evened up or I'm behind all of a sudden. To ivwshane, if you want to have some friendlies some time, add me on GC. I'd be happy to give you some input on your Blanka. And don't worry about losing to Ken Ken. You definitely shouldn't judge your Blanka based on results against him.
Against weaker Dhalsims, 'Gief just has to get inside, usually with the Banishing Flats. A lot of Dhalsims don't know how to respond to those (which is actually pretty easy). At least that's my impression but I've almost never fought a Dhalsim with 'Gief. Another technique I've seen that has some luck is that chest dive move (I think it's down and punch while in the air). This very often gives damage to both players and as Dhalsim, you don't want to be trading hits with 'Gief. These won't beat a really good Dhalsim, but will definitely help with the weaker ones.
I haven't played many good Codys but I think his anti-air kick is actually very effective against a lot of Dhalsim's weapons. I'm going back some ways so I'll have to double check this somehow in training mode. For you, the best character for every character is Viper. Man is she tough. I actually thought I was going to get you in our one match last night but it wasn't meant to be. Pretty fun though.
Honestly, during my time as Gief, I've never really found any sort of "standard' viper playstyle. It almost seems as if every viper really plays entirely differently. That said, I think my Gief has been "perfected" by more vipers than any other char. Either the viper has a playstyle that will be impenetrable, or I win (bad viper?). I don't have an answer for viper's flame kicks though. Not a single thing. As for Vega, it's really not that bad, I find. I used to have a LOT of problems against Vegas who abused flying barcelona attacks and such - basically getting the chip on you and then getting away - but at this point it's just vegas who use their amazing standing kick game that can cause me trouble. A few psychic flying body attacks can really shut down a vega air game. As Blanka, I fear Ryu and Sagat most. Unlike Bison, who has an ex headstomp / teleports to get out of Sagat's twisted low-kick vortex, I have an upball that is punishable, a forward ball that is punishable, elec that is kickable, an ex-rainbow that is punishable before I even finish the backwards-jump animation, and no 100% moves that I know of that can punish 90% of 2-hit blocked tiger knees before the tiger uppercut. Everything simply has too much startup. Not to mention that there is a bug with blank's ultra with block stun animation - blanka can't actually initiate his ultra for another few milliseconds out of block stun. I am, however, happy that at least river run goes under low tigers. The match would be impossible if not for that.
@shoryu...the only thing i know for your gief is just keep away from your big huge,use seismic/double seismic/ex seismic and dont to much use my burning kick and ex thunder knuckle...yeah i hate Deejay but i hate more Blanka,Gief,Sagat,Bison,and anyone who use Viper too... @Jibba...that is because i dont know nothing any character except Viper...lol @Nullroar...did u ever meet -40°C(F)?his Blanka so crazy...
I think you have skills with other characters yyhak. Just to be clear, I wasn't trying to insult you with that comment. I just think your Viper is extremely good. As for -40, I had heard about him and played him last night. Given how hard Blankas are for my Dhalsim, I expected to get stomped. I actually won the first round without a ton of trouble. I then should have won the second round but blew a big lead at the end. I think he finally figured me out by the third round but the loss was still pretty close. Maybe he was off his game for some reason because I've heard he's pretty sick.
I played him last night too, very good blanka, one of his signature move is high blanka ball drop in front of you then immediately an ultra/super. I got caught a couple of times try to punish the missed blanka ball end up eating the ultra/super. I added him in GC, like to play more games aganist him.
Now that you mention it, I think I've played him before and been hit with that exact move. It seemed like he was comboing a Blanka ball into super (or maybe ultra) which I always thought wasn't possible. It made me want to learn how to pull it off but I remember forgetting to save the replay.
GGs d4rksh4dowz. lol after my little rant about lag i miss 2 combos into ultra na im pretty sure that was just me not having played chun in a while, the connection wasnt too bad. nice all round sagat, good throws, good knees, good zoning. im still not sure who to have as a secondary. I like chun and her high low mixups, but very low stamina, extremely floaty jump and a hard to hit ultra. i was playing around with dee jay a while ago, and shoryu saying he hates dee jay is pretty encouraging. but hes got ass anti air, especially without charge. i was also thinking about sakura, but i dunno.
i think that you should actually main her because she has great mixups, combos, and great reach on her crouching hard kick so yeah you should definitely main her.
Maybe in the future, but you saw how bad I am with her... @DROQQA, voloster, nullroar and shoryu how does the fei-geif match go? fei longs another char i was thinking about.
fei-gief is pretty much "i'm zoning, i'm zoning, chicken wing, rekka, I'm good, oops one mistake, I'm dead."
It's pretty much like that for any character without a projectile, isn't it? It seems like it only takes 3-4 SPD's and Yun's down. D:
"Not to mention that there is a bug with blank's ultra with block stun animation - blanka can't actually initiate his ultra for another few milliseconds out of block stun. " I freaken hate that!! I'll admit it right now that I have raged quit because I couldn't activate my ultra (I'll be charging and pressing the ultra shortcut for a good 2-3 seconds and nothing!). I don't mind losing except when I can't pull off moves that should be no problem pulling off As for -40, I consider him my rival. I swear I'm the one that tought him the backstep roll to ultra but he tought me how to cross up people and how to get out of a blanka cross up. We are closely matched but I'd give the edge to him.
What ive found is that with all charge characters, if you mash on a move during block stun it wont be a reversal. This screws me up sometimes with chun li. For example someone will do a blanka ball, ill block and then be mashing on ultra and it wont come out straight away. But still, I dont get why they changed the engine when they ported it to ios. Things that arent true blockstrings on console like yuns low strong-shoulder are blockstrings in volt. Also theres no meaty attacks or safe jumps which is really annoying as a cammy.
I love when you think ur jump cleared akuma's ultra only to get sucked straight out of the air. /random rant
GGs ivwshane. Thats good practice for me you have to play completely different against blanka becuase up ball beats any wake up shenanigans I think i kindve figured out your playstyle by the end, but you won the first 4 matches in a row im pretty sure :S Edit: You should sign up for the team tournament, you could beat most people on this thread for sure (including me )
Good games snooper. I have no stamina Your focus attacks were killing me and are my achillies heel against most characters (I've been spammed to death by akumas who do nothing except focus my slides). Anyways I think you've got me figured out, when I get my next day off (Sunday) we will have to see. I can usually punish offensive players pretty bad (except sagat) so when you went to a more defensive/counter game it was a much tougher match.
If anybodys up for a few games ill be around for a while. Just say whether you want me to use chun, cammy or both in the invite.
