I played on that airplane stage fine. Didn't even recognize the background was moving.
Can someone explain why ibuki has bad neutral and whatever else she sucks at? I get her 3 bar trigger with her low life negatively affects her but I don't know much else
Short normals with nothing special as far as frame advantage goes.
Terrible damage. She just doesnt do damage. To put this in perspective... you can do her basic Vtrigger combo off a confirmed st.fp.. and you use a kunai, a bar and half your Vtrigger for roughly equal damage to Vega's 1bar BnB, or Necalli's CC BnB, or just reg, non metered BnB, and if you end the combo in a mixup setup, you will sacrifice more damage, have to burn the other half of your vtrigger, usually spend at least one more bar and usually two more kunai. As you can see from his, you are also resource intensive. To do anything as Ibuki, you need A LOT of resources.
She needs meter for absolutely everything she does. If you want to get in on anyone with a brain you need a bar to burn on a kunai just to get the couple steps you need to get in to effective range..
Her main CC, the hop kick, STILL loses to some lows, and leaves almost no time to follow up, especially if you just hit with the tip of it. You *almost* have to commit to a DP after it to properly punish online. Its not literally that bad, but its a bitch to follow up. Her other CC, st.Rh, is a high and will whiff on crouchers. It has deceptive range, ill give it that, but you still don't get a follow-up worth a damn. Her AA's are weak and have no real followups. Urien and Vega, as examples, have situational, difficult to implement AAs, but they can lead to a lot of damage.. Ibuki's are difficult to time and use properly, and lead to nothing except maybe a dash under, but the same can be said of almost every character in the game.
Her dashes suck and are nothing but a gimmick. They lose to anything on the screen, and when in this game are people not hitting buttons? and once you have a decent feel for them, you can throw, among other things, on reaction pretty much every time. You can dash cancel some pressure for a side switch, but again, once the person has some experience against her, its not going to work any more.
She needs meter for her reversal. But she needs it for damage too.. And to be a proper threat in neutral,, and for her pressure. And for any decent Vtrigger combo.. and.,. well, like I said earlier, Ibuki needs meter for absolutely everything she does. She will *never* have enough.
Kunai are incredibly important, and they are limited. There are a few reload setups but they usually revolve around weird, situational combos in specific situations. Watch the high-level Ibuki players, they usually just go for spontaneous reloads in neutral when they get the spacing. Air kunai is negative on hit unless you hit as low on the hurtbox as its possible to hit.. So you if throw and land an air kunai and its not perfect, YOU will eat a punish.
Again, her normals are nothing special. Average to low range, st.mp is your work horse, but its only +2, which is certainly good, but nothing earth shattering.. and it pushes out quite a bit. Basically her entire pressure game is based on hitting mp a lot.
Her main TC is superduper unsafe and will get you blown up. Now, you can stop it on the MP or continue it in to st.lk instead of st.fp.. but stopping on lk still leaves you -2, so your turn is over and stopping it on MP doesnt allow a cancel (though st.mp will cancel if used by itself). So, not great. Its not bad, I mean, you can end all successfull TCs in DP and get a dash up meaty MK>TC which is quite nice..
One of the slowest OHs around.. Granted, on CH it will combo which is nice..
She's just weak. She lacks damage, and range and her pressure is basic. Her setups only really exist with vtrigger, and since its a 3bar and her vskill is 'meh' you are going to have to bleed to get it.
Out of all the characters Ive dabbled with, I havent found a single character that gives so little back in return for so much put in. You have to work your ass off as Ibuki and your rewards are pretty minimal. Ive begun to think she's among the worst characters in the game. You can watch one or two godlike Ibuki's run train on people and start thinking she isnt that bad, then you use her, and you realize the reason those Ibuki's were doing work is one of two reasons: The other player was respectful or there was just an enormous skill gap.
Ibuki is my favorite character in SFV next to to Vega, but she, to me, illustrates everything wrong with SFV and why the game can be SO fucking stupid.
