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I don't fully understand the properties of her v-skill is it 1 hit of armor plus the mic projectile? I was literally drawing blanks trying to think of what to do so I just stood there lol.
usually you just walk at her and block. If she doesn't throw the mic down you can cross her up for a punish, or you can punish it on reaction with an ex projectile(obviously not as gief).
 

@MylesWright_

I'll be back 3ing
I don't think just playing solid is a viable method to win with the weaker characters in this game particularly the ones without setplay. You need to exploit match-up unfamiliarity and things your opponent may not be doing to scrape out a win and it doesn't feel legit
 

LionHeart

Whisper within a sigh
There are like 2 characters in this game that can't kill you off of one knockdown into 2 guesses. Ken is no different than 80% of the cast in that regard. Ryu, Necalli, Alex, zangief, Karin, mika, balrog, Laura, birdie, Ibuki. All of these characters can combo into knockdown and stun in 2 mixups then kill you while you're stunned just like Ken.
I'm pretty sure Ken has the best Oki setups from all knock downs without even needing to be triggered to set them up. All the other characters you mentioned either have to use a specific combo/ender, or activate trigger in order to mix you up. Ken is even more scarier while triggered because he only needs one mixup to kill you. His cr.hp xx ex hado, lp dp, hp dp corner combo is fucking stupid damage/stun wise. And it's not like he can do it only once because his trigger lasts for fucking forever....
 
I'm pretty sure Ken has the best Oki setups from all knock downs without even needing to be triggered to set them up. All the other characters you mentioned either have to use a specific combo/ender, or activate trigger in order to mix you up. Ken is even more scarier while triggered because he only needs one mixup to kill you. His cr.hp xx ex hado, lp dp, hp dp corner combo is fucking stupid damage/stun wise. And it's not like he can do it only once because his trigger lasts for fucking forever....
I'm not saying Ken isn't a strong character, I'm saying he's not brain dead. There's a difference.

He requires quite a bit of skill to be used at a high level since he's got harder confirms and worse neutral than pretty much any top tier. as for his damage, it's good, but Ryu/Necalli/Karin all have pretty similar damage.
 

Rip Torn

ALL I HAVE IS THE GREEN.
Ken has a pretty good neutral. Between his v-skill, st. HK, ex divekick, air Tatsu, and fireball he can threaten from footsies and get in close when he needs to. I don't think he needs to be super good at confirming b.MP>HP target combo because he has cr.MP, b.MP that he can confirm easily. b.MP is more of a punish. Or if you want to challenge somebody with a 4f move you can just do b.MP>HP~ex Haduken and be +1.

It takes skill to put all his tools together and win, but it's not like he doesn't have a bunch of great tools to choose from in the first place.
 
don't you love when RQtters report other RQtters?



both are diamond league now

beat this guy with 20x throws in one match, I have only lost once from 14 games vs x3terror so far in USF4

 
don't you love when RQtters report other RQtters?



both are diamond league now

beat this guy with 20x throws in one match, I have only lost once from 14 games vs x3terror so far in USF4

the fact that you played blanka in sf4 has made me lose 99.99% of all the respect I had for you. Fraud.
 

Scott The Scot

Where there is smoke, there is cancer.
Ggs @Scott The Scot i wanted to use a variety of characters, but unfortunately I only have the one.
Yeah GGS again. I'm only playing Guile and Cammy until I know why I lose every single time and can win consistently. Need to just focus on getting better. Honestly, I after the first set against Mika I was furious and decided I need to play more solid and it barely helped so after that I just started freaking pushing buttons when I know I shouldn't have and I saw improvements in the results and that makes me sad. I try and not play with emotion in my game but I was sooo pissed at that character (mika) that I caved lol.
 
Yeah GGS again. I'm only playing Guile and Cammy until I know why I lose every single time and can win consistently. Need to just focus on getting better. Honestly, I after the first set against Mika I was furious and decided I need to play more solid and it barely helped so after that I just started freaking pushing buttons when I know I shouldn't have and I saw improvements in the results and that makes me sad. I try and not play with emotion in my game but I was sooo pissed at that character (mika) that I caved lol.
i will admit that in the last set with mika I said to myself "why the hell would you press that there?" Multiple times lol. But it worked.

And yes, it's half the reason I play mika, I can literally feel my opponent getting mad when I'm playing her.
 
the fact that you played blanka in sf4 has made me lose 99.99% of all the respect I had for you. Fraud.
the fact that you don't know that my main was Guile for 7 years since SF4 vanilla days when Guile was the most underpowered character in SF game history among with Dan makes your comment non sense for sure