I am using sky wakka, airsenal, and wind push. Airsenal for the one bar combos and wind push for safety/screen control. It was tough dropping needle but I chose the wind kicks over it because of its damage, screen carry, and for its armor breaking ability.
So the timing that works for me is inputting the cancel right after the 3rd hit of the sword on the enemy. As soon as it goes through their body dial in the input and then I've found you can pretty freely spam the Amp.
Which version were you trying to use? There are two versions of the barrier: forward and down-forward. As far as I can tell, forward only parries air-to-air attacks; you have to use down-forward to parry grounded attacks. It worked fine for me in brief testing, but the move doesn't feel remotely practical so I haven't labbed it a whole lot.
Oh the move list shows the move twice but doesn't show any directional inputs. Thanks. Yeah I thought it was much better but it's only active for 15 frames so trying to time it seems like a bit of a crapshoot and you're punishable if they just block anyway.
Yeah, seems like a clear omission from the move list (another future 'move list corrections' patch fix).
Ehhh I also input sky wakka late animation of b2
I try and input Sky Wakka the same frame that the B2 connects with the opponent. Works pretty consistently.
Sky wakka does literally so much for him I’m not sure it’d be worth using him without it.
Yes it does, sky wakka is one of the reason that makes Fujin top 5. Without it, Fujin will lack lots of combo potentials, anti air, anti zoning and neutral control.
Lmao this character is still good without Sky Wakka, dudes acting like he's Shao tier without it
Fujin only needs Sky Wakka or Twister in order to get damaging combos without using setup tools like Turbulence or Pressure Bomb.
For meterless corner combos? The only meterless corner combos you can get from starters 12, 42, and 11 is when you do the instant skywakka into tornado. However, b11212 can combo into tornado in the corner but you have to pay attention to spacing. If you are extremely close to opponent then you have to first back the tornado and then move it forward. If you are at max b11212 range then you have to move the tornado slightly forward. After you get the launch you can just do 12 ender but if you want to be optimal you can sneak at least two d1s in there. F3 into tornado also works in the corner but its also spacing dependent.
