Few fights against a french friend, nikano. Kano is very hard to beat, I didn't play so good in these matches, but I find interesting to show how play kano. What is your strategy against a kano?
Good video. Against a good kano it's kind of a guessing game with his knife toss and his upball. After a blocked upball raiden can punish with 121 shocker, F2 vb dash 334 superman for 33%. You have to be careful with your teleports because he could try to do a knife as you appear on the other side, and you end up eating an upball instead...upball is a pretty solid, somewhat safe punisher for teleport. Use :en superman to punish a knife toss on reaction and as another way to get in.
Granted you played well there are a few things in your gameplay I would like to point out to help:
I seen you use en vicinity blast in the corner after a 334, which I think is a waste of meter. A regular vicinity blast would have been fine, and you could have gotten a 43% combo without :en vicinity blast. It only adds 2% to his biggest corner combos.
I noticed a few times you did en teleport off of a landed B312 when you could have gone into shocker. I felt that was a waste of meter, as you spent meter just to lose out on potential damage.
After a jump in punch the majority of the time you would go into F2,3,1+2. Generally after a jump in punch it's good to go into 334 then (assuming it hits) tele, F2 shocker, F2 vb B3 superman for a full 40% damage, or a B312 combo for about 38%.
At 3:45 - instead of doing a b2 you could have done a dash (to close the distance) into F24 d1 shocker, F23 superman for some exceptional corner damage.
at 5:38 could have landed a superman off of the uppercut, resulting in 21% damage
at 7:09, a dash in F2 to hit confirm the xray would have guaranteed it, waste of a full bar of meter which could have benefited in the next round, or gave you a better chance to take the round.
8:53: after landing the en shocker doing F2 VB dash 334 superman would have given you 30% damage.
9:30: could have went into a 33 shocker or 334 33 shocker after the popup to keep him in the corner
9:36: after the anti air punch could have dashed in into a possible B31 or B312 shocker, B31 superman for around 21%
Overall I'd say to try to play more patiently, and don't jump as much. A lot of times in those matches you would jump and get aa punched out of the air, or he would try to jump and you'd aa punch him and whiff a string etc.
Look in the kombo kompendium and practice the standing 1 vicinity blast anti air combos, and take a look at the NJP combos as well. There are several meterless options for countering jumps and jump in punches, along with :en shocker.
Another note: you should use F2,4 more...very good string with good priority...especially after doing a D3 poke (like at the beginning of the first match). Keep meter management in mind as well, and overall try to play it a little smarter with your meter usage, and a bit more patient. Rushing down/jumping in isn't always the best thing to do. Work more on staying grounded (not jumping randomly), and utilizing more anti air options for punishing jump ins, and alternatively superman/teleport to escape jump ins or punish some random jumps.
Hope that helps, keep em comin!
Next tournament nov 19th. 1st or nothin!!! hehe.
aiden:
can't really do anything about it at the moment since I don't own the videos.
