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[08] Mercenary
Besides Wall Splats and ROs are there any tech traps or true follow ups to 2362_22_88 BA?
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Besides Wall Splats and ROs are there any tech traps or true follow ups to 2362_22_88 BA?
Actually - yes.
8A+BB is a forceblock - if they do anything other than stand they eat a relaunch.
Because of this, you get a mindgame between relaunches and high damage 50/50s.
Good oki off of that move.
I mean they have a 50/50 between staying down and being relaunched for 55 damage, or immediately getting up into guard, which risks a throw/power mid mixup for around 100 damage.
Yes, but you are missing the point: You shouldn't view the opponent blocking a force block as leading into anything, save GC damage - those are the exceptions. You should view a force block as a situation where you kill them for trying to or not trying to defend the forceblock correctly. That is the mixup - not after they block it.
Eg with Alpha 22BA:
If they try to defend the forceblock:
Throws/1A: A: A
46 - 103 dmg.
If they guess throws but wakeup to not risk an 8A+BB relaunch:
Power Mid.
Around 100 dmg.
If they stay down to avoid the above mixups:
8A+BB 2A BE 22BA situation reset.
75 dmg.
I mean that the situation cannot be identified and handled on reactions - the opponent knows that you have a forceblock here, if they think you will use it, they will wakeup standing, meaning you can throw them or 1AAA them.
B+K isn't something I'd recommend due to it being unsafe, but 33B and 66B are good meterless safe launchers and are both faster.
Unsafe does not mean unusable but its 80 damage at i26 and linear.
Bearing in mind you can do 100 at i17 and safe. Its a killer reverse RO tool, but sakura fury just isn't worth it anymore, it was in SCIV though. =/
Actually, B+K has a hidden weakness we haven't really spoke about: the fact that you have to buffer the whole movement means that, on block, you're like to do another B+K or 66A+B immediately afterwards, when you're already at -14. This means that they can either AA or BB punish you, or CH fish for a huge punish on block. It's not really easy to hit confirm the B+K string, and because of the way the buffer system works you can end up really exposing yourself.
Yeah a super fast buffer might avoid this, and I've had so-so results with trying to hit-confirm (buffer B+K 62B, confirm 44B+K), though sometimes that results in dropping the third hit.snip