First of all let me tell you I think you are a GREAT player! loved you matches with Brady on stream and on the tourney, really great stuff man. I would like to ask you a question with all due respect.
Lets say it gets to the point where all great players can combo Sonya on reaction as soon as the first hit comes out by following the rule you posted. Wouldnt this open mixup possibilities? Cant you use the fact they will try to interrupt to your advantage? Lets say instead of doing 1,1,4, you go 1,1, d4; wouldnt this catch them if they try to stand and combo you while keeping your advantage? A mix of this and other normals + specials + throw would perhaps make the opp respect you to the point where they dont attempt it anymore? Maybe she cant poke with strings and chip into hit confirm like Cage but can drive you nuts with small pokes as she dares you to interrupt... she would be much riskier but maybe playable... what do you think?
PS: Thanks for the video Riu48, well researched and very useful for all!
thank you for the kid words
yes you are right if you guess your opponent will try to combo you between lets say 312 you can do 3df3 and if they are in '' i have a plan mode'' and not on '' i am reacting mode'' they will stop holding block and get hit by df4 but only players who are not reacting to what you are doing and they are only playing with a plan in their mind will get hit by bf3 because you can see df3 coming and keep holding block . . . however beleave it or not most player out there play in ''plan mode'' so it would work against many
now here is the down side of this
you have to commit to (31 or 3df3) (1df3 or 114 or ) because you can not hit confirm 3 and then do 1 or hit confirm 1 and then do 14 you have to commit to one of this . . . the problem with not been able to hit confirm this strings is that neither 3 , 1 or 2 combo to df3 and if you hit them with 3 , 1 or 2 and then go for df3 your opponent can block the df3 after he was hit by 3 , 1 or 2 and you just lost a combo and now your opponent has the advantage over you because df3 is at negative frames on block.
so here are some scenarios you will find yourself in
1) he block your 3df3 and you are now at negative frames
2) he got hit by 3 but block the df3 beacause it does not combo and you are now at negative frames
3) you did 312 because you though he was not going to block and he did duck block now you are eating a full combo
4) you guess right and he did not block 31 now you can do some damage on him
out of this scenarios none it is good for a rushdown game
i am still testing stuff that i am not ready to talk about yet but i like to think there is a way round everything my problem with this is that sonya was build to be a rushdown character and i rush down character should not have this problems
