Vs Bane......
- I'm sure you know by now but he gains one hit of armor on all his specials at level 1 Venom. But it's only 1 hit of armor. MC MB and MT MB will knock him down.
- MaxIntensity's Bane seemed to have experience vs HG because he was anticipating your wakeup options correctly. Bane's Splash works beautifully vs MC and may trade with WE 3 or connect clean if you press 3 too late. Once he saw you wouldn't use that midscreen or wakeup with that anymore, he went to Bane's Venom bully oki game which is the best in the game (IMO). Rotate between backdash and MC vs his wakeup. BD beats his Double Punch, command grab, and D1 (Bane's is 6/7 frames). You also should be able to block if he does his Venomed Charged late enough. But if he does B23, you're gonna get hit because the 3 goes forward a lot. When you read that, wake up with MC or WE2. He also did a lot of Venom Charges from mid screen. That's undoubtedly because he knew none of HGs one hit options beat a Venomed Charge. He also walked backward a lot and almost invited you to attack him. That's because you didn't sweep him enough. He wasn't walking backwards as much as he was blocking standing.
- Venom lvl 3 gets the most damage but it also give armor to F2 and F2d. F2 is mostly a worthless move with shit loads of recovery frames so nobobdy uses that shit. F2d, however nails people who backdash and try to jump backwards from Bane. Also, Bane's charge at Venom lvl 3 goes through everything. multihit projectiles, MB F3/B3, supers...... fucking everything.
- Start attacking Bane when his lvl 3 Venom is almost down. Don't worry about him attacking you, because without venom Bane is fucking trash and in debuff he's even worse. During debuff, even if he hits you, his combos that normally do 27% do something like 11%. It's quite pathetic really. That's why sometimes Max's and Red69's Bane's would sit in the corner and do nothing. That's because they were waiting for that Venom debuff to run out. Don't let them wait. MC your ass over there and put on the pressure. Bane's defense without Venom sucks ass too.
- When Bane does a Charge and you jump it, punishing it dpends on where he started the Charge. If he started it from full screen and you jump it and fly, he'll stop right underneath you so you can dive kick for the punish. If he does it near midscreen, he'll fly all the way to the end of the stage. MT accordingly.
Play the range game vs Bane when he's juiced up because there's not much he can do about it. His is dash great, true. just read it and occasionally MC while flying to keep him chasing. Once his Venom goes down, go get him.
...I'd like to see this...we just gotta find out what tournament PL won before CEO and find the archive.
