Sup guys? I've been playing around with baraka a little today and hes incredibly fun to play as, but I'm not sure if I'm maximizing on damage, so I have some combo related questions. What is baraka's highest damage off of the following for raw damage and into f4, from midscreen and in the corner? All meterless please, except for the f2 followup.
221+2
b31
f2xxEXslices
air to air punch
deep jump kick
anti air normal
NJP
Thanks in advance.
Also I've been ending my corner combos with d1. Since the patch you can still fit it into 40%+ combos and it wakes the opponent up instantly, do you guys reckon theres any uses for mind games with it?
Welcome to the club kOmegak. Here are some combos of my own making (without meter), and i'll include damage output and feasability.
Corner combos:
1) jp, B31, B31, B31, B1F2, Spin, Spin: 44%. Very easy to do.
2) jp, 221+1, B31, B31, B1F2, Spin, SPin. 45%. This is also fairly easy to do. If you are finding the B1F2 tricky at the end, just do B11 (but you will lose out on 1 or 2% damage)
3) jp, B31, njp, U4, B31, B1F2, Spin, Spin. This is tricky, but looks very, very nice. 45% damage
Those are without meter as you requested, but with meter, you can get corner combos in the 49-51% damage range.
Midscreen combos:
1) Jp, B31, dash, B31, Dash, B11 cancel into Blade Charge: 35% (you may find landing two B31 in a row tricky at first)
2) Jp, B31, dash, B31, dash, F24: 32% (simple combo, and F24 will do more damage than ending the combo with a F2 canceled into a special move)
3) Jp, 221+2, dash, B31, F24: 35%
4) Jp, B31, dash, B31, dash, 1 cancelled into blade spark: 29% (nice simple combo. Alternatively you could just do the jp, B31, dash, 121 cancel into blade spark for about 30% damage)
5)Jp, 221+1, dash, F2 cancelled into slices: 29%
6) Jp, 221+1, dash, B31, Dash, F2 cancel into slices: 34%
Midscreen you can actually hit three B31 in a row, but the timing is so critical that i've never bothered going beyond two in a row.
Enjoy.
Off of a njp midscreen, you can hit 22 cancel into a special move. You could also hit chop chop after a njp and then blade charge as he comes out of the chop chop (you could do D4 into blade charge if your fingers are nimble enough). You could also hit F44 into a blade charge or just F4 for the reset.
If you hit F2 Ex slices, you can add a D4 into blade charge. One lil corner combo I have is Jp, 221+1, F2 Ex slices, D4 charge. I think the damage is only about 36%. To be honest, if you're going to use meter in the corner, use it for ex spin. Midscreen, you can use EX slices, dash and blade charge. If you want to burn meter, Ex slices then ex blade charge (no need for dashing) does about 25% damage. You can ex blade charge off of a AA Spin as well.
Barakas normals are quite slow so hitting a standing 1 or 2 is nowhere near as viable as someone like Cage or Jax. His Db3 is an extremely good Anti Air, like 7 frame special. His chop chop isn't as good as it used to be, but if you anticipate a jump in you can catch people (specially those KL, Sonyas and CSZ that love to dive kick). Follow up with the blade charge or the d4 blade charge. Incidently his F44 isn't a bad anti air if you can anticipate and read your opponent well. However the Last 4 on the F44 will hit them high up so wait for them to decend before you punish.
A deep flying kick can be followed up with a blade charge.
An air to air punch i've usually followed up with F44 or F4 for the grounded reset.
Word of advice. Try and herd your opponent into the corner. I know a lot of characters have good corner game but Baraka really excels here.
This is just some of my personal knowledge. There are likely better Baraka players out there and on this site that know more, but this works for me and im no slouch with B.A. Barakas. People say he's a not so good a version of Cage, but Cage is for pussies that think doing frame traps is skillz. I played around with Cage and the character is easy to pick up. That isn't fun for me. I personally love the Baraka vs Cage match, and super hype over the win.
